Re: Yast2 won't refresh - help needed

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:40:14 +0000, Joe727 took a five-minute break from
flipping burgers to boot the etch-a-sketch and scribble out:

> "NunYa Bidness" <nunyabidness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> <snip>
>> To reject command lines and consoles is just plain backward
>> thinking. They are still used at NASA, and by the military. Do you
>> think they are behind the times as well?
>>>
>
> Considering I live about 50 miles from the Kennedy Space Center & served in
> the U.S. Air Force, why yes I do think they are behind the times, and they
> always will be. After all, they're trying to fly manned spacecraft that
> were initially designed in the 1960s, and which also have the unfortunate
> tendency to blow up or disintegrate.

Great article, here on how we're spending our tax dollars from 1980 -

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html


>
>>>Thanks for posting - I really appreciate it.
>>
>> NP. "Open your mind" is the only other suggestion I can think of.
>>
>> Command lines will likely never go away. GUIs are not the end all be
>> all of computer interfaces.
>
> Command lines may never go away, but most of the people in this world
> who use Desktop PCs never need them. I am an end user who wants to
> use operating systems that use a GUI. It has nothing to do with an open
> mind. I downloaded Suse 10 because it looked like it met that simple
> requirement. I clearly was wrong.

I'll second your motion.

There are still things in *nix which just need to be done in the command
line.

It sucks, yes.

But the beauty of it is that someone like you or I could simply take the
code and figure out how to write a gui tool.

Belive it or not, I still find myself forced into the command promt on my
WinXP machine at work. I don't complain about that since there's enough to
complain about in Windows.

>
> At least I got it installed. Several years ago I tried to install Red
> Hat linux. After a couple of days of trying, I finally gave up and
> forgot about linux until now.

Stick with it! You'll not be disappointed. Things are happening every day.
It is actually quite exciting.


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kai
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