[Sussex] Improving on UNIX

[Nik Butler]

> Its 22nd because this saturday would refer to 15th, next (one after) would
See how you modified the subtext of the day by adding one after. Now
lets confuse this further if you use brackets in maths it can mean that
you are grouping calculations into their own set or your multipling
multiple values against one or many values so .
	x(y+2) may be writting xy+x2

anyway lets look at the dictionary for the word next. then ask why we
modified it that way.

> > so back to pictographic context.
?
.. se thats a gag, we use ? for question. Punctuation is a level of
pictograms we use in our own language.

> 
> In a pictogram you are limited by what you see alone. If you try to learn
> from pictograms alone, you won't get very far. You would need some kind of
> legend or key to describe what each pictogram means.
yes but what if you are learning that language as part of that culture
as part of its community as a member , not as a outside "alien" user.
> 
> Were Hieroglyphs used to pass on information to the other realm rather
> than to the physical world. To have a tomb with the writing on the inside
> and not on the outside implies such a thing.
um no, they used them in day to day life as well ...


> 
> There are way too many actions involved, but if they are visible to a user
> it has the illusion that they are friendlier and easier to use.
really , let me ask you to open two notepad windows on a desktop then
ask a user to open and read a file. watch them pause to decide which
notepad to use, or try to open another one!

> 
> > use a command line environment and do the same
> 
> Its quicker to use a CLI, but it looks less friendly to a new user.
yes, because
	less c:\mydocuments\file 
was hard to remember.

> CLIs tend to hamper those who think visually. Take web design for an
> example, where you can see what you are creating. It takes much longer to
> work on a webpage in a CLI, then display in the web browser, make the
> subtle change and do it again. With WYSIWYG you make the change instantly
> visible.
now finally we have a good explanation of a correct tool for the
appropriate job. 

but as the discussion was regarding attempting to System Administer
using a GUI  you need to view the issue from that posistion. 


examine some basic sysadmin jobs

1. Add / Modify users
2. Create/ Modify disk access
3. Create Modify user mail access
4. Handle Files for backing up, or modification.
5. implement a timed schedule to automate tasks.


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apt-get install zoe-ball
 To many unmet dependancies.
 installation failed.