I think the single greatest thing about the CLI is that it basically doesn't change. I can do pretty much anything in XP you might want in a matter of minutes but when the cable guy installed wireless on my grandfather-in-law's Windows 7 laptop... all I wanted to do was verify he set up encryption properly. It took me a good 20 minutes poking through the GUI to find out it was in fact set up properly. If there was a good command line tool to verify the settings I wouldn't have had to spend all that time figuring out the new GUI configuration system Microsoft made. Considering the linux alternative... 20 years from now there's a pretty good bet that iwlist and iwconfig will still work regardless of whatever the latest and greatest GUI whizbang looks like. I'm not hating on GUIs either, they're really great and I use them most of the time, but having a good knowledge of the command line tools will allow you to function with little re-learning for a long time.
I'm sorry.. you had truoble connecting to wireless on a windows 7 laptop and seeing if its on? it took you 20 minutes to notice the network icon is no longer crossed out with a big red x and that it has signal bars in the bottom right corner? I'm sorry but i don't think you should be using the internet, you obviously d
exactly. but i live in aus. so we have to wait a few years and then possibly get the shows in dvd. i like my HD shows. but again. non-DRM; becaues whats the point of having it if i can only have it in 720/1080p? want to watch it on a phone/pmp. nope, can't do that. want to use linux? nope. mac? nope. xbmc? nope.
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I think the single greatest thing about the CLI is that it basically doesn't change. I can do pretty much anything in XP you might want in a matter of minutes but when the cable guy installed wireless on my grandfather-in-law's Windows 7 laptop... all I wanted to do was verify he set up encryption properly. It took me a good 20 minutes poking through the GUI to find out it was in fact set up properly. If there was a good command line tool to verify the settings I wouldn't have had to spend all that time figuring out the new GUI configuration system Microsoft made. Considering the linux alternative... 20 years from now there's a pretty good bet that iwlist and iwconfig will still work regardless of whatever the latest and greatest GUI whizbang looks like. I'm not hating on GUIs either, they're really great and I use them most of the time, but having a good knowledge of the command line tools will allow you to function with little re-learning for a long time.
I'm sorry.. you had truoble connecting to wireless on a windows 7 laptop and seeing if its on? it took you 20 minutes to notice the network icon is no longer crossed out with a big red x and that it has signal bars in the bottom right corner? I'm sorry but i don't think you should be using the internet, you obviously d
must.. mod.. up..
exactly. but i live in aus. so we have to wait a few years and then possibly get the shows in dvd. i like my HD shows. but again. non-DRM; becaues whats the point of having it if i can only have it in 720/1080p? want to watch it on a phone/pmp. nope, can't do that. want to use linux? nope. mac? nope. xbmc? nope.