[ale] [OT] Stable, backward compatible APIs

[JD]

Wasn't that the former President of IBM Japan who was caught taking an upskit
video that last week?  Yep.
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2012/08/30/former-ibm-japan-president-nabbed-for-shooting-pictures-up-womans-skirt-with-ipod/

He was using an iPod.
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I don't have any issue with GUIs for seldom used tasks. It is when something
needs to get accomplished quickly or many times that the GUI gets in the way.
After creating a VM manually, I'm happy to have virt-manager handle that task
for me.  Creating a new VM happens about once every 6-12 months, so I don't need
(or want) to know all the details.

On 09/07/2012 12:30 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Point and click idiot - You mean like the guy taking pictures up the woman's
> skirt at a local mall?  :-)
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> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike Harrison Sent: Friday,
> September 07, 2012 5:52 AM To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Subject: Re: [ale]
> Stable, backward compatible APIs
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>> For remote consoles ... we don't have any pure consoles.  ssh is good
>> enough. virsh provides commands for everything we need.  If we are on the
>> same LAN, virt-manager has been enough.  Remember, I said we were small. If
>> a remote GUI is needed, I'll come in using FreeNX to a machine on the LAN
>> and use that to run
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> First, what little I know about our KVM/Qemu stuff I learned from Adam
> Jimerson, but he's usually a quiet lurker until beer has been administered.
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> But you touched one of my hot buttons: Learning how to admin server things
> via pure shell (ssh/virsh) and editing text config files on the server
> directly will save your bacon when the frying pan is hot. Learn how to do it
> the hard way, and then if you use a browser/gui you have a backup.
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> For me, it seems there is always some configuration option I need that the
> direct interface supports but the idiot point and click level interface does
> not.
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> Or should that be: Point and click idiot, interface..
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