Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:07, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> 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
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