Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 22:25

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In article <DCLILE.23GJ@austin.ibm.com>,
Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO <medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com> wrote:
>In article <3vbfdl$ju1@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
>> Why in blazes would you assign root responsibilites to a raw newbie?
>> This makes no sense whatever.
>> 
>> You install linux and set up X for him; you configure his account 
>> with a user-friendly window manager and a drag-n-drop file manager.
>> 
>> You tell him to be sure and apply the vulcan nerve pinch before shutting
>> off power, and he's off & running. He doesn't ever need to know that there
>> is such a thing as root.
>> 
>> You can log in as root over the phone to do sys admin stuff for him.
>> 
>> simple, right?
>
>So you're saying that the average home user should be denied the full use
>of the hardware and software he has purchased?

Denied? you're kidding, right?

We were talking about people that don't know, and don't want to know
about the inner workings of their computer. 
These people don't *want* the burden of root responsibilites while they
are trying to figure out how to log in, or how to start X...

Why force them into an unwanted role as system administrator, with power
to wipe out everything? In that case, they might as well be running dos
and windoze.

Here at my workplace, there are many users of X workstations that don't
have the root password, and it has never been an issue. No complaints
about being "denied the full use" of anything...

just my $.02

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 31 Jul 1995 22:25:45 GMT
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