<calming down> Automated symbolic links would be a bad thing IMHO. Just because there are ten identical files on the server does not mean that we necescarily want them to be identical.
OTOH if it automatically unlinked when you changed one of the files, so that all of the other files were not changed (think any sort of RCS) than this could be a really interesting idea.
Lots of overhead, but all of the sysadmins out there know plenty about users tendency to keep their own copies (on the server) of standard documents that are available to everyone else (on the same server).
Now that the numbing (from banging thy head against said wall) has softened, this actually doesn't sound like such a bad thing (The idea of auto-linking and unlinking.) Obviously Microsft claiming PR for "ln -s" is a very bad thing.
chris
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No "thing" can be all "things" to all people.
Sometimes I wonder where the obsesive thought that everything new must replace and destroy what caame before it comes from. Mostly I don't bother.
Every medium has value. And the metavalues of that medium are different for everyone. Did the printing press cause hand copied books and hyroglyphics to become worthless? No, they greatly increased in value because people realized the value creation through the sheer effort that was necessary to create a hand written book.
Oil paints have not invalidated cave art or watercolors or vice versa.
What is gained through the net is a medium where it is incredibly simple to post information that is accessible to millions and billions of people. Inexpensive, cheap and easy.
There exists an added credibility in print media, justified or not. People recognize the tremendous cost for the creation of print media, paid reporters, informants, ink, and paper.
Most people here recognize the high cost of a highly visible and popular web site like slashdot, paid reporters and all. Most people do not see these costs.
Simply put there are differing uses for differing mediums, they all have differing intrinsic values, but the difference of these values means that no one medium is inherently better for every situation.
/. has drawn this fact out many times through many discussions and nothing has changed. Wow, daily newpapers circulations are declining. Local weeklys, usually free, are growing. People are amassing increasing large quantities of information from increasingly diverse vendors. 2000 is also proving to be so far the most heavily participated political season of this generation.
Please don't cheapen our new or our old sources of information by declaring that one must destroy or dominate the other. Celibrate the fact that people today have such an amazing amount of access to such a diverse quantity of information, for this is one of the true cornerstones of democracy.
chris pugrud chris@pugrud.net --- Not anonymous, not a coward.
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Symbolic links!
Even if they are automated!
<calming down> Automated symbolic links would be a bad thing IMHO. Just because there are ten identical files on the server does not mean that we necescarily want them to be identical.
OTOH if it automatically unlinked when you changed one of the files, so that all of the other files were not changed (think any sort of RCS) than this could be a really interesting idea.
Lots of overhead, but all of the sysadmins out there know plenty about users tendency to keep their own copies (on the server) of standard documents that are available to everyone else (on the same server).
Now that the numbing (from banging thy head against said wall) has softened, this actually doesn't sound like such a bad thing (The idea of auto-linking and unlinking.) Obviously Microsft claiming PR for "ln -s" is a very bad thing.
chris
Sometimes I wonder where the obsesive thought that everything new must replace and destroy what caame before it comes from. Mostly I don't bother.
Every medium has value. And the metavalues of that medium are different for everyone. Did the printing press cause hand copied books and hyroglyphics to become worthless? No, they greatly increased in value because people realized the value creation through the sheer effort that was necessary to create a hand written book.
Oil paints have not invalidated cave art or watercolors or vice versa.
What is gained through the net is a medium where it is incredibly simple to post information that is accessible to millions and billions of people. Inexpensive, cheap and easy.
There exists an added credibility in print media, justified or not. People recognize the tremendous cost for the creation of print media, paid reporters, informants, ink, and paper.
Most people here recognize the high cost of a highly visible and popular web site like slashdot, paid reporters and all. Most people do not see these costs.
Simply put there are differing uses for differing mediums, they all have differing intrinsic values, but the difference of these values means that no one medium is inherently better for every situation.
Please don't cheapen our new or our old sources of information by declaring that one must destroy or dominate the other. Celibrate the fact that people today have such an amazing amount of access to such a diverse quantity of information, for this is one of the true cornerstones of democracy.
chris pugrud
chris@pugrud.net
--- Not anonymous, not a coward.