[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT [long; both informative and then religious]

[Doug Young]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Doug Young" <dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au>)

I'm not disputing what Crown Law uses ..... I have no involvement with that
part of the department ..... start looking however at the hardware /
software
in most if not all Court House / Magistrates Courts throughout Queensland.
They still use the "ancient WordPerfect application" as you put it
>
> In short this is irrelevant to your greater point, which is, that you
> prefer a GUI to CLI,

Often, but not necessarily always ..... its a matter of horses for courses.
When all I'm trying to achieve is the most expedient solution, I have found
I usually get results quicker with GUI. If for some reason I wish to mess
with config files directly its a different matter. In the beginning of this
thread, I was looking for a two line explanation of how to fix a routing
problem .... it turned out that the answer provided by a couple of guys on
the list was far more basic than most of the responses indicated ..... a
simple matter of clicking one box in a GUI window. That was what Iall
needed to know at the time ...... not all the (probably well meaning but
totally confusing) stuff about firewalls and ip-chains etc

would you advise regular office clients to employ a solution that is more
difficult for untrained staff to use ??

and the Re-install-from-scratch methodology to the
> Read-Configure-Backout-Reread-Reconfigure approach.

Again ..... while the idea obviously doesn't appeal to the purist .... its
often more expedient to do a re-install rather than go looking for the cause
of the problem if one can't understand the documentation, and to go
endlessly bumbling around in the dark with no probability of ever finding
something
sure doesn't hold a lot of appeal












>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au>
> > To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 9:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT [long; both informative and then
> > religious]
> >
> >
> > > (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Raymond Smith
> > <raymonds at uq.net.au>)
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Doug Young wrote:
> > > > Something of interest to command line junkies .... the Quensland
Justice
> > > > Department still uses DOS / Wordperfect 5 and from what I hear they
> > badly
> > > > need someone who appreciates command line stuff  :)
> > >
> > > This is not true. The Department of Justice has standardised on
Windows'98
> > > and Microsoft Office using DocsOpen to replace their previous standard
> > > client of DOS/Win311 and WordPerfect using SoftSolutions. They are
> > > sticking with Novell for their fileservers. (Caveat: I only really
have
> > > knowledge of Crown Law.)
> > >
> > > ---
> > > raymond at humbug.org.au              The early bird catches the worm,
> > >                                        but the second mouse eats the
> > cheese
> > >
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