On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:07, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:56:51AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Still, the reg offers many opportunities for fun. Nothing like doing a deep >> reg dive to manually remove tricky spyware - though it is probably better >> to just do a reinstall in those cases. > > They made the same mistake IBM did with OS/2: Instead of using human > readable and editable configuration text-files that can include > comments, they used non-editable, cryptic files without comments that > automatically and inevitably get messed up over time and force you to > reinstall every now and then. That makes the system unusable because > of its unreliability. > > The tendency in Debian to split up configuration files --- like for > apache and exim4 --- and to spread them over several directories and > to have the system automatically mess with them has already gone too > far. Just try to figure out how to configure exim with that system --- > it remains cryptical, and it's far easier not to use it. Apache was > also easier to configure before it was messed up. > > It's anything else but fun ...
I find that split up config files are easier to deal with, as long as they are split in a sensible way. And I feel that it is fun, in a certain way. I do agree that weird binary formats are A Bad Thing(tm). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
