12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
8:23 a.m.
On 12 December 2011 15:34, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Linux, yes - if you can find it and then if you can parse the
format, as there is no standard at all and it ranges from INI files
(as used by Samba) to early pre-Demotic hieroglyphs transcribed in
Minoan Linear A and then written in early Sumerian cuneiform (e.g.,
Sendmail.cf).
But OS X? If it's in a file it's probably XML but the chances are it's
in netinfo somewhere...
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I suspect most Mac users barely know their
machines have a shell and
never, ever use it. If Ubuntu gets to that point as well, that will be
just fine - so long as people can do what they want and need to do.
Well yes, and that's the key, isn't it? ?I think the single most infuriating part
of Windows to me is that the system configuration isn't in human-readable text files,
it's in inscrutable key/value pairs in a giant global registry. ?It makes it
impossible to have any real kind of manual control over the operation of the system unless
you are a warlock. ?On Linux and OS X, you can almost always edit a text file somewhere
that will be vaguely understandable even if you've never seen it.