I presume this is flamebait ? ;p
I agree with the arguement of VT100 usage -- that's why most admins use VI instead of EMACS or prettier editors -- because when a system is down, many are headless and all you got is that serial connection (or slow dialup vs going in to use the pretty GUI).
But more importantly, and the thing that makes UNIX most powerful -- you can script a CLI, but not a GUI (I know there's expect, but that's not a simple solution).
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Eyal Traitel wrote:
Guys,
CLI will be out in the next few years, no matters where your nostalgia goes. The whole market is going that way, and I'm not sure it's that bad, but anyway
NetApp is probably not the first company to have a nice looking web.
Blame your textual browsers for not handling that, no NetApp for designing good looking pages.
Eyal/Motorola.
Pete Ehlke wrote:
Luke Mewburn (lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au) said, on [991017 20:43]:
Since when has now.netapp.com needed JavaScript & Cookies?
Since someone decided that IIS/ASP was a Good Thing(TM). And, AFAICT, the cookies aren't used at all for the only technical reason for using them, keeping state. I smell the presence of marketroids and user tracking. Pfeh.
I find this unacceptable:
a) I have JavaScript (& Java) disabled on my GUI browser because it increases the reliability and security. b) My text browser (lynx) doesn't support JavaScript.As do a fair number of the people who use NOW, I'd wager.
With NetApp's drive to encouraging customers to using now.netapp.com as a method to lodge support calls, I remind them that until this point I could do everything (manage my filers, submit calls, look at bug reports/new releases) via a text based connected *if* I needed to.
So could I. And if I ever need information from NOW in the middle of the night, while I'm hunched over a dead filer in a colo cage, with nothing but a vt100 at my disposal, I'm going to pitch a pretty serious fit. This is a technical resource, folks, not just another opportunity for your marketing department to count hits.
-- Pete Ehlke Sys Admin type @ Sony Music entertainment "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming
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