Re: January meeting

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > Oh dear, I'm disagreeing with everyone today :(. But I disagree ;) What is
> > power? I define power as, 'the ability for the majority of users to be
> > productive'
> It's a slight difference in terminology.

Agreed ;)

> Power IMO is letting you do something, not necesarily letting you do it
> easily or well.

So, my power == your easy to use, your power == my bloat ;)

> Um, that would allow you to use all of Apaches features. You've been using
> version 0.01 I think. :)
> Apache has a LOT more to it than that, and I'm sure you know it.
> Yes, any Harry could install it, but anyone with half a brain would be driven
> mad by the lack of feature X or Y.

Heh, no, the point I was getting at was RATHER than using Apache, it would
be possible to write a piece of software that would webserve, needing
minimal configuration. The main users of such a piece of software would be
those testing out static web designs, and those running intranets. And
you'd be surprised, but I reckon that would do 70% of all users...

> Must agree with you on the blender point. It's foul.

It took me days to work out that you needed to use the space bar to do
stuff. I couldn't believe how bad it was ;))

Cheers,

Alex.

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