system-config-users 1.2.39 broken?
"國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"
survivor at brisnet.org
Mon Oct 3 09:06:26 UTC 2005
Very true. For instance, I frequently have Windoze users
unintentionally move their mice and then files would go missing. The
GUI can be a double-edge sword, but I suppose the benefits it brings
more than outweigh the costs.
micheal wrote:
> Point taken
>
>However I feel like I have to point out that there are drawbacks to a
>GUI interface, sometimes it can be ~~too~~ easy to do something
>unintended. I'll give you an example:
>
>Contrast MySQL, command line, with MSSQL, GUI
>
>I had a friend who decided to rename a table in MSSQL. So he right
>clicked on the table name, and went down to rename on the context menu.
>His fingers glitched, and he clicked on the item above rename which
>happened to be delete, table was gone. Had he not had a backup, it
>would have been ugly.
>
>Had he been working in MySQL from the command like, I do not think he
>would have made the same mistake. Its hard to type DROP TABLE, when you
>mean RENAME TABLE.
>
>Food for thought
>
>Micheal
>
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