[rescue] SMC truly blows... even on Ultra 1/170

[Koyote]

> I had never started SMC up until this week when people were talking
> about it.  WhyTF would you want to use something so dog-ass slow to
> administer a box.  My god if I was Sun, I would have tossed that a few
> versions ago.
> 
> If you can't do it from a terminal session WTF are you doing it at all
> for?


Well, while I'm all about my CLI for *me*, I don't really buy into the philosophy
that only a command line tool is permitted to a *real admin*. 

"These computer thingies are supposed to make it easier for me to do
stuff? Then why do I need a shelf of book to write a letter, mail it,
and see a picture?"

That's my grandmother. (unfortunately, she uses windows 95)

that same applies to to administrators, the NOC, and (I will argue this)
even software writers. Some things ar ebtter done with a lot fo
knowledge and cheap tools. but the idea that you need 4 years of school,
a shelf of books, memorization of a pile of arcane command line tools-
to write a basic freaking tool like a die roller--

maybe this elitist thing is part of the reason none of the teenage kids I know
have sodlering irons and only use computers to play games and surf porn.

(and, fwiw, this is exactly why I no longer use debian. I feel like I'm
walking into Johhny Ashcroft's pentecostal church wearing a red devil
suit when I go to a local lug meeting- I got *yelled* at for running
something other than debian on my sparcbook.)


SMC *should* be a useful tool- it *should* allow me to concentrate my
locus of attention on *my machines* instead of 140 character metatool
command strings. That is doesn't is a real shame.

I thought webmin was a touch slow, until I tried SMC. Take a look at
webmin. it's all open, you can probably put together some good volume
management packages for that quicklike. 

-C