Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

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

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> Yep - I aggree, they do look a hell of a lot better :) I don't expect 
> miriacles (Richards not the messaiah...he's a very naughty boy! [sorry -- my 
> mind is pulling stupid links in])

They never expect ... the Spanish Inquisition! "Cardinal Fang, bring forth
the bare PC and copy of Slackware for installation..".  

Liiiinus Torvalds, Lord Protector of Linux (Free Software!),
Born just in time to free us from Windows (from Bill Gates).
Did at first (only)
run on intel architecture (but then)
ran on mips and motorola, powerpc and Sun...
...etc...

> *grin* I was about to suggest vi :) Seriously though I've always preferred 
> just using a text editor - the site management is handled by a good 
> hiearchial layout, and common locations (eg, all images are in "images/", 
> regardless of whether its images in the current directory, or a symlink to a 
> master images directory).  It's how I've always handled my own personal site, 
> from when it was small to big (and now small again).

Yeah, but what about when you need to change a common layout element? It's
like developing in xterm; fine if you like making trouble for yourself.
There rest of us will use tools that don't fight back ;)

> > expect a similar improvement in the future ;) Did anyone see that Dilbert
> > cartoon in one of the PC mags a while ago? Pointy-haired boss: "Gentlemen,
> 
> 'Fraid I missed that one...

D'oh.

Cheers,

Alex.

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