Re: rants and rambles

[Jamon Terrell <JamonTerrell@charter.net>]

I take it that you probably meant that the other way around (someone who programs in a 
language that was build in another language).  If I choose to program in a higher level 
language all my life, I'll never learn how the commands are presented to the processor.  
It's all a matter of choice.  If you don't ever care to understand that electricity flows 
toward a lack of electricity, and that based a transistor works by having two side 
connectors and a center connector, in which the side connectors are not connected unless 
there's electricity on the center connector which provides the electricity a method of 
arcing across the center connector to the other side, and that processors are build upon 
millions and millions of transistors like this, and that these transistors put in groups 
build gates, and that these gates put together in groups allow for "instructions" and that 
these instructions when put in groups allow for you to write programs.  Though I don't 
choose to completely understand each of these layers, I do like to know a little bit about 
how my program ACTUALLY runs :).  I realize that I probably have quite a few errors in my 
explination above, but either way, the point is the same.  It's all a matter of choice.


If you're interested in learning exactly how all this works see:
http://www.intel.com/education/teachtech/learning/transworks/flat1.htm

--Jamon

4/27/2002 11:50:43 AM, "Tim Coffey" <coffey@sondata.net> wrote:

>Could that argument also be used by someone who programs in assembly
>rather than C, C++, Python, etc?
>
>I rather like Webmin. I also think that easier GUI tools will bring
>Linux to the masses. To each his own. We are all brothers.
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jamon Terrell <JamonTerrell@charter.net>
>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:38:22 -0500
>Subject: Re: rants and rambles
>
>> I have this whole theory about why 99.9% of people who use windows
>> will never understand 
>> anything about how things work(it applies very well to webmin also). 
>> It's very similar to 
>> how you cannot learn how to drive a car by watching someone else
>> drive it.
>> 
>> -Jamon Terrell
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 4/26/2002 7:47:29 PM, Nate Reindl <reindlnr@apci.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >Stephen D Reindl <sreindl@apci.net> shamlessly rambles:
>> >> Playing this morning I learned several things.
>> >> 
>> >> lpd will not work when you rename localhost to something other
>> than 
>> >> localhost. Seems basic but when it can't find a localhost IP it
>> won't print.
>> >> Lesson learned?  Don't do that! I couldn't get my jetdirect to
>> work. I wonder 
>> >> why? All is fine now. I can print to my network printer now!
>> YeeHaa!
>> >> 
>> >> Webmin is a wonderful tool. I know all you command line only dorks
>> are gonna 
>> >> kringe, but I don't care. If I play with it enough I'll finally
>> gain an 
>> >> understanding of the file and directory structure and maybe my
>> feeble mind 
>> >> will actually recall the locations and contents of all the
>> different config 
>> >> files. It's all there at my fingertips. All I need is a table
>> capable browser 
>> >> and the URL http://localhost:10000 and the root password and I'm
>> in, even 
>> >> from my normal user account. I think it's kinda cool, so there.
>> Found a few 
>> >> things that I didn't know were there. OBTW, Webmin will not
>> install correctly 
>> >> when localhost isn't there either, hmmmm wonder why? Duh?!
>> >
>> >There's a file in /etc called 'hosts'.  Windows has the exact same
>> conventions 
>> >buried somewhere in \win(nt|dows)\system or \win(nt|dows)\system32. 
>> Change 
>> >your hostname and add yourself in there with the changed hostname. 
>> _*DO_NOT*_ 
>> >remove the localhost entry!  I think the stock /etc/hosts in RH >
>> 6.2 tells one 
>> >not to with the result of Bad Things happening Real Soon After. 
>> Just change 
>> >your hostname the way you happened to do it (trivial), and do what I
>> said 
>> >above.  'Nuff said here.
>> >
>> >I'm stepping in on Webmin; likewise, I'm defying my father's rules. 
>> I loathe 
>> >pretty web-based config interfaces to the point to where I won't use
>> most of 
>> >them.  I like using commandline stuff or web based interfaces I
>> write myself, 
>> >damnit.  It's still there at your fingertips in the commandline; you
>> just have 
>> >to remember some real nasty commands and arguments however. :D
>> >
>> ></rant,_or_is_it?>
>> >
>> >I suggest you all pull my plug before I advance even further and go
>> full out on 
>> >my Webmin rant.
>> >
>> >Ich glaube, daß ihr sollt mein Netzstecker ziehen, vor ich vorrücke
>> weiter über 
>> >meinem Webmin Wortschwall.  Spaß, ja?
>> >
>> >--
>> >Nate Reindl  <<  OTHS Web Mastah  <<  Resident Luser at Large
>> > '---> email:  alles gehen nach reindlnr bei apci dot net
>> >==
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>> e* h! r% z?
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