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A while ago i went away while my apartment was being getting a facelift, new kithen, new carpets and such. When i came back the entire thing looked really good, apart from one thing, there were stains of paint on the floor, and lots of it. I decided to get rid of some stains every day. Then it hit me, "stains of paint, material on the floor that does not have any function but just crap and leftovers"
The human DNA contains that as well, residue from the human evolution,...
Much of the different souces for help regarding BSD and GNU/Linux is about forums and irc channels, people in need of help quickly jumps in and in a stressed out sentence close to "demanding" an answer, and fast shouts out for help.
These people (unless the problem is truely complicated and sounds decent enough) gets shunned off. I myself is no exception, theres still situations when one could use a fast solution, but unable/unwilling to pay for support, and by all means,...
I was thinking about the technological progress humanity have done, how very fast we went from pure mechanical solutions to the microchip, and the never ending ongoing progress towards better and better, smarter and smarter devices. Iphone, Ipad, bluetooth, wifi, more and more UPNP and AUTO builtin, devices that can make contact with other devices in the name of "user friendlyness"
Todays industrial robots that manufactures our cars, tvs, computers, cloths and whatnot takes...
I was thinking about the technological progress humanity have done, how very fast we went from pure mechanical solutions to the microchip, and the never ending ongoing progress towards better and better, smarter and smarter devices. Iphone, Ipad, bluetooth, wifi, more and more UPNP and AUTO builtin, devices that can make contact with other devices in the name of "user friendlyness"
Todays industrial robots that manufactures our cars, tvs, computers, cloths and whatnot takes...
I've been trying out most of the linux distros and all of the BSD distros from the early years, and today it struck me. Linux and BSD aint "user friendly", they are "absolute"
Despite risking a flame war i cannot help but to compare linux / BSD against the oh so well known microsoft windows, i have no experience at all with Mac, so i leave them out of this blog.
My current experiment consist of a linux based firewall / router distro, behind that...
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