Re: webhttrack. start please
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:28:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
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> that is a good idea. however, i have another thread about making a
> symlink, but all the responses involve real 1980s command solutions.
> which, while fully capable of doing, i refuse to. when my friends see
> this, they will laugh at a system which requires you to open a terminal
> just to make a link (and rightly so). It takes longer to open a terminal
> than it takes to right click
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> I'm sure the responses will be "this is linux, if you don't like it use
> windows' and 'its free what do you expect' and 'linux is all about
> terminal' ...these excuses just don't get old. It's 2007
Right clicking requires that I take my hands off the keyboard, find the
mouse, figure out where to point it, find the mouse button, rememer if
its one click or two...
Ctrl-Alt-F1 is almost instantaneous.
If you refuse to use a terminal at some point you will be forced to
reinstall from scratch when X or your WM/DTE dies. Sounds like windows.
Or maybe the *buntus (don't know, haven't use either). What will you do
when your graphics card fries and you have to hook up a serial console
or ssh in? I know: put in a new card, X won't work with the config for
the old card, so you'll have to reinstall... Hope you made a backup.
We will not say "its free what do you expect". First, you missed a
comma. Second, it goes agains the whole philosophy of the free/open
software movement.
Its too bad the debian-instller team made an installer that runs X from
the outset and gives a DTE straight off on the i386 and amd64 platforms.
The old bootfloppies from Woody provided a self-screening tool. Anyone
who got it installed, configured mail, and got online, knew enough not
to complain about a CLI and new that a mouse was best used for xeyes.
Doug.
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