Oddball said the following on 06/16/2012 11:39 AM:
Anton Aylward schreef:
Per Jessen said the following on 06/16/2012 09:54 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Perhaps this http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#moniker partially answers a question previously asked.
Looks impressive, but I am not as deep in this to understand, or use it myself..
Once upon a time neither was I, but I copied these and other things I found on the 'Net and slowly modified them ...
I use SW, not create or code it, neither will i pretend that i do, or look at myself less, for not being able to do it.
Indeed; I could say that too and so can many people here. But the copying of other people's freely given genius, adjusting configuration and so forth, hidden by a GUI or using a text editors, well calling it 'programming' is a fuzzy ... If that's programming then so is giving someone directions using a map. I think you are putting yourself down. I wouldn't claim to be a programmer but going in, copying one of these and changing a few lines - the address of the mailbox, my home directory, the place I've put the libraries, the threshold level for spamassassin and the number of "*"'s to look for ... that's "programming"? You surprise me! Now if you want me to go in and alter the way KDE redraws ... yes that would be programming and no I don't think I could do that.
I prefer Linux above M$ for several reasons. But many things are easier for most ppl, because almost everybody uses it. Manufacturers depend on it, and closed source means you can charge for it.
For some values of "easier". Personally I find Windows awkward, but then I've bee using UNIX and UNIX derivatives since 1978. Oh, there are specific things I can use under Windows, mostly because there is no Linux equivalent close enough, but on the whole "close enough" is often a lot easier. For example, I still can't import into MS-Money and I've experimented with KMyMoney and its a lot easier and I *CAN* import from my bank but I simply cannot get MSMoney to export in a format that KMyMoney can read .... I'm going to have to find a way to edit/transform those export files. Probably read it in to a spreadsheet and do a global replace. Would you call using things like sort and edit in a spreadsheet "programming"? I wouldn't. Is using this in an editor s/03-\([01]\)-\([012][1-9]\)/2003-\1-\2/ programming? I don't think so; its the application. -- Life's a bitch. Then you die. Then you get re-incarnated and it starts all over again only worse. And it doesn't matter if you don't believe in reincarnation, Life's still a bitch. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org