BIND and Webmin

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Mar 21 22:53:34 UTC 2001


At 3:47 PM -0500 3/21/01, JD Almand wrote:

>  IMHO there is nothing easier than vi.  People complain because its
>  "old tech.", or they just refuse to learn.
>  Little do they know that its finger power, that makes the world
>  go round, not a GUI or mouse interface.....
>  And they are kiding themself, if they forget the KISS method
>  of programming or doing anything worth while.

	True enough, but keep in mind that the Internet is being "dumbed 
down" at an exponentially growing rate, and the kinds of people who 
are being attracted now are the sorts who are unable to get that damn 
blinking "12:00" off the displays of their VCRs and only capable of 
reading at a 6th-grade level.

	So, you can't *possibly* expect them to be able to learn 
something as complex as vi.  Hell, they can't handle WebTV or AOL, so 
even webmin is *way* beyond their capability to ever possibly 
comprehend.


	Sad, but true.

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*     efdtt.c     Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>             */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Thanks to Phil Carmody <fatphil at asdf.org> for additional tweaks.    */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Length:  434 bytes (excluding unnecessary newlines)                 */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob           */
/*     where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key     */

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,n))if(s[y=s[13]%8+20]/16%4==1){int i=m(1)17^256+m(0)8,k=m(2)0,j=m(4)17^m(3)9^k
*2-k%8^8,a=0,c=26;for(s[y]-=16;--c;j*=2)a=a*2^i&1,i=i/2^j&1<<24;for(j=127;++j<n
;c=c>y)c+=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a>>8^y<<9,k=s
[j],k="7Wo~'G_\216"[k&7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)
*6^c+~y;}}


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