APPLEVISION Monitor,, No shell = No power

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Mon May 6 23:53:19 2002

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> While I agree there is plenty of room for preferences, I don't see why one
> would want everything isolated from everything else on the LAN, when the
> existence of the LAN is warranted by the need for shared access. ON top of
> that, typing half a screenful of text just to make some file on some other
> machine accessible seems a mite burdensome. Even under DOS it only takes a
> single half-line of text.

  mount -t smbfs //server/share -o username=doc /mnt/remote

  Dick, I've seen you run that line of crap half-a-dozen times. Maybe
in the Dark Ages it took "half a screenful of text just to make some
file on some other machine accessible" It hasn't been true for a long
damn time. The above command will mount a shared _Windows_ resource
locally on a Linux box. That's iff you're too lazy to make it a
3-stroke alias, or an icon on your desktop. Actual Unix network
resources are even simpler.

> Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to stroke their own need
> for pseudo-sophistry.

  some people seem to parrot the same set of arguments over and over,
without ever investigating their validity.

        Doc
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 23:53:19 BST