____/ ed on Sunday 22 July 2007 21:33 : \____
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:00:53 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:46:22 +0100
>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thunderbird is not the most sophisticated newsgroup client (the
>> >> same goes for RSS), but I still use it for mailing lists, which are
>> >> similar (been manageing them in Horde for years, but it was slow).
>> >> If you intend to participate in busy newsgroups, consider
>> >> something like KNode (KDE required) or maybe even Pan. Windows has
>> >> its own powerful newsreaders (third party, of course), but they
>> >> are not cross platform and I am not sure they are all actively
>> >> maintained (making it a risky investment in terms of skills).
>> >
>> > If that fails there's always Tk and perl modules.
>>
>> Yes, there are more rudimentary methods (with a steeper learning
>> curve), but the paradigm is being killed by the perception that
>> commands are inferior to a single little cursor moving around the
>> screen (with a trigger). Communication with machines changes from
>> language to pointing and grunting (like cavemen).
>
> That's an interesting way of looking at things, that I never thought
> about.
It's Eben Moglen who used this analogy in a recent interview. All credit to
him.
>> But guess what? After a decade of striving to kill the command line,
>> even Microsoft decided that it needed a comeback, which will come in
>> 2008 or 2009.
>
> Well, Monad is potentially a dangerous idea. As I understand it, from
> what little information I watched a while back on channel9 was that
> object code is passed from program to program on the command line...
> That seems like it's crying out for exploitation to me. Unlike text,
> which is far less easy to fool with. Object code on the other hand
> could really mess around.
>
> Monad was meant to be released with the last version of Exchange, or
> the next, I think trials might be available for download. It might be
> something worth looking into, Novel might make their own spin-off.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
>
> From the syntax there it looks like there's some heavy perl influence
> on that, similarity to subs and -gt for instance.
>
> Still looks bastardised.
I was delayed because of some serious security issues (at the least),
discovered by some Austrian guy.
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