You don't live in a city where it snows in winter, do you. Bikes and snow do not mix, but once you get three or four wheels for stability, it's another matter entirely.
Oh hell yes. Drunks have an invisible armor, Beer Armor, which protects them from _any_ injury. I firmly believe we'd see less accidents involving damage to people if just everyone on the roads were constantly drunk;-)
Actually you just need minor modifications to modern car. In Sweeden, the E85 mix is readily availiable, and both SAAB and Volvo is selling cars that run on both E85 and regular unleaded. The reason for these minor modification is simply the higher strain on some parts due to the octane level of E85, which is 101 i believe (as opposed to 92, 95 and 98 which are the usual ones). Benefits of this is of course cleaner car emissions, but also a more potent mix, creating cars that actually put out more horsepowers than with 98 unleaded. Example is the new SAAB 9-5 Sportcombi Aero, which produces above 300 BHP using this fuelmix, as opposed to about 260 BHP in their Aero edition of the car on regular 98. Also, the 2.0t BioPower plant produces 180 BHP compared to the regular 150. This link will show you the difference in engine preformance (from SAAB): http://www.saab.com/main/SE/sv/model/95_WAGON/2/fc .shtml.. Just click on the BioPower and it has the normal engine preformance in there as well to compare between them.
The cars are there, the fuel is of course getting more popular, and for the driver it seems to be a boon in terms of BHP output as well.
The norwegian market for broadband has a good deal of variation, depending on where you live (rural vs. city) and even what part of the cities you are in (some parts has access to very high-speed broadband and has had it since the end of the nineties). You can find a total overview on this URL: http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302634.html kr/mnd will show the price, they also rate it as a bang-for-your-buck. For comparison, you might do quick and dirty convertion for about 7 kr pr. US dollar, and 8 kr pr Euro.
Overall, broadband in Norway is now cheap and availiable in most parts. However, since we are still dominated by a few big players, development and deployment of new DSL standards are slow (they wish to have a dividend on their initial investments before moving on..).
If networking and I/O are to become increasingly difficult to tell apart (loosely from the article), will we also see a possible sharing of hardware devices across computers ? In todays officespace, there is a lot of redundancy going on, with machines and especially harddrive capacities of ridicolous prpotions to what they are actually used for (since certain software seems to be needing these and that specs). If anyone could enlighten me on the aspect of using these serial "networking" I/O solutions to share resources based on external hardware, as well as a possible migrating I/O structure, that would be great. It seems this is a better solution than todays "exported network drive" system.
The salaries in norway really vary, but what I have come to find being very nifty is having your own small one-man business, but being sponsored by a bigger company, which hires you out to businesses across the board, as well as lets you do development work and different stuff. Pays well, and the hours for a student like me is very flexible:)
On a sidenote, you can see anything between 80-100$ an hour doing regular network/server setups etc. I have heard of Linux/Unix people here not taking a job if it pays below 200$ an hour. And they usually get it (if you're good).
So the pay is good, but the cost of living and taxes in norway is steep. Atleast most of the social system is free of charge etc.
The difference between the two are more of an academical than user-related issue, as it is basically in the way they are built up. As far as journaling goes, they are both up to the task. I do not know if ReiserFS is a true 64 bit one, handling the files as big as the XFS does, but a quick and dirty look at the two FS's homepages should yield a lot more info on this. XFS and ReiserFS is not going to replace ext2. Actually, ext3 is, which will, when released, also be a journaling FS (from what I heard). Maybe someone could provide the right urls or more info on this than I can. I believe in time, they will all be included into the kernel, and you can choose your preference based on your needs. In the meantime, make a small partition, insmod the module and mount the drive and play with it I guess:)
the discussion on LinuxToday has gone on for some time about the 2.4 kernel. I don't know if the dynamic resizing will be there, but this is what was said about LVM:
Joe Drew - Subject: Re: Raw I/O, LVM (1999-07-30 05:36:48) In fact, both of these features will be added for 2.4. LVM support and raw I/O support are both already in; LVM is undergoing quite a bit of hacking activity, but should be ready for 2.4.
Soon they'll be learning that it was actually a venture cooperation between Al Gore and MicroSoft that lead to what is genereally known as "the evolution" today. While Al Gore was on the comittee, MicroSoft created the standards and buried the core of evolution deep, so to hinder competition through insight. In the spirit of these times, and not to be branded a monopoly, they have over time released small bits of outdated evolutionary specs to the public. Who said history isn't constantly repeating itself ??
Eh.. "Slightly" off Topic, but... This release was utter garbage. I am not surpriced that people experience problems with it. I am sure fragmentation doesn't help either, the more fragmentation, the more codebase. In the world of Linux, fragmentation happens within several different companies (like distribution) and sometimes in various code-bases, but the fragmentation isn't covered by any one company, like with MSoft. The extra effort hurled into supporting and upgrading all these different fragmented code-bases, Win9x in all it's forms, winNT, W2k, WinCE etc. etc. Maybe it is time for Windows to stop charter everyone and their kitchen sink, and start putting effort into releasing systems that fix things while not breaking other things. Win98 SE got the cute nick-name: Shit Edition after it refused to work on several peaces of hardware which its "old, buggy" version works just fine at. In some 15 installs, the new edition has only worked on 2. Someone will probably scream: change your hardware, but seriously, I would rather just change to an OS that actually work with what I have (it seems like 98 SE has a special affinity for not working with various network cards). It's about time Windows got it's stuff together, soon it won't even be good for playing games at if this is to continue, thus loosing it's usability all together.
Things change, it's that easy. What I think will make for a better road ahead, for those that wants to be special though, is simply that you get a very wide variety of hardware options. If you want to be special, get an Alpha, or a PPc, or maybe go fot the upcoming Amiga. On top of that, I do think we'll be seeing new and interresting alternatives showing up, especially heavily net, and distributed OS's, which will be pretty different from the traditional Unix model. Hopefully though, the dependancies on network, and inter-connectivity will allow for a more or less seamless integrations through open standards. (A man can always hope). I think Linux has shown that openness works, and hopefully this lesson will be remebered in the future as well. It's interesting times ahead, and I think linux will do just fine in it's new enviroment as well. Who can tell the future in 5 years time anyways.
Here, they are going the other way around more or less. They lifted the restrictive way they had earlier on movies, and allowed for a larger freedom for what people could go to, especially if they were in the company of an adult. If people want to take their kids of 13 to see a movie rated 15, they are perfectly well allowed to. Also, beyond 15, the next age-limit is 18. This is restricted to a very few movies, where the contents are strong and graphic. Movies like Saving private Ryan. They go by that movies should be shown in their whole, uncut versions, and rather be set at the right kind of age-limit. This is a policy I agree with, since it does not in any way diminish the movie-goers experience. I simply don't think all movies are suited for everyone, but one should be liberal with the restriction of movies. I don't think American Pie will have a higher than 15 years limit here, since it is not graphically violent and gory, playing on your emotions, like the above mentioned SPR. Neither do I belive South Park will. These movies are not damaging in any way, and like many other, I never could understand this thing about not seeing nudeness and sex for american youths, while it is perfectly okey to see log 10^10 people die in ultraviolent ways. After all, nudeness and sex is normal, while senseless killing isn't. Just my 0.02$ worth
Well, for the people who wasn't fortunate to live, or visit the USA at the time of the premiere, actually getting a copy of the movie 2-3 days after it's screening wasn't such a bad thing. I think bootlegging of TPM was successfull in other countries because Lucas for some fubar reason decided to wait 3-4 months releasing the movie to other countries (god knows why) and a lot of people was very eager to see it. I agree that the movie definately belongs to the big-screen, but waiting for 3 months is hard when you can just see it today. What's the price of free bandwidth and `screen`, anyways ?
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I was just wondering, from what I have seen at Bugtraq and similar places, the number of ways to crack Admin access once being able to log onto a NT box is quite big. Since BO gives you access as a user if installed (after all, the old BO was able to be wrapped into install-shields, undetected), you should be able to upload the hack to the server, and execute it to gain Admin access. Then reinstall the BO server from Admin user, and voila. Maybe I am just being ignorant on NT's behalf, but I don't see Linux having the same number of availiable security holes once you actually have access to the server, and it's storage medium. I mean one of the more crazy ones were just making a symlink as a user to a certain dir/file (I have forgot the exact details) and then re-login and you would be Admin. I find this, well, rather disturbing. I guess (hope?) they have closed this one off by now. If you rely on having just trusted access to your server, what kinda security is that ? The internal security must be as good as the external one, if not, it's kinda mute point:) Just my 0.2c on this.
Yes, now all we need is a dynamic web-frontend and a server to scan for computers infected. Then everyone whith a browser can join the fun! This could actually be a neat project to run later on.. hehehe
Problem with BO is that it spreads like wildfire, you don't need any kind of knowledge to use it either, and it could be hard detecting it if the source is constantly changed around as well. Of course, it's not MY problem, so I just smile and nod and go on running my Linux and BSD's. I never trusted an OS that didn't let you know what the hell you were doing anyways. Low down and dirty, it's the only way to be sure!
Actually, if you are looking for movies which plot take you nowhere, the acting suck, and you want a movie to set the absolute dice-roll of 0 on, you MUST see The church of Christ, without Christ. I bet you, it will eliminate all competition without much ado. Of all the movies ever made (including cult gems like Plan 9)that movie is the one I can advocate to use as a all time low!
In europe, and probably other parts of the world, we already use digital cellphones, on the GSM net. I'm not an expert on this, but as far as I know, you cannot intercept a GSM call, unless you intercept it at the time the call is first made. After that, the encrypted signal key is changed at such a rapid rate, that only the two end-points of the phone-call is able to decrypt the signal again, having the keys. This is all done with a digital SIM card, that each phone has, and which is unique. You can also store phone# and such in the SIM-card, and thus transfer the data from phone to phone. Each SIM also has 4 sets of codes, one pair of regular, and one pair of Unlocking keys (4 and 11 numbers), and a SIM will not work anymore if you enter the wrong number 3 times in a row etc. (You need to use the unlock key to make it work again). It might not be 100% perfect, but it is a secure and good way to do phonecalls throughout europe. Analouge cellphones ? Thing of the past here:)
DRx2 has already been firmware fixed. I even think Creative had the frimware upgrade on their own website! Go check there. This, in addition to using Remote Selector (Excellent program for windows (Drx2 isn't very stable in Linux yet..) although I do not have the url right now) you can set your DVD player to ANY region. It is not mearly region-free (Region code 0), it can be anything you wish. Neat when some movies refuse to work on region-free players.
IMPORTANT: Some versions of Drx2 (Like mine) uses a different base-player. I belive it's the Toshiba(but at the moment I can't recall) and they come region free from the shop!! Do NOT upgrade these! Make SURE your drive is the CORRECT one before applying any firmware upgrades for it !!!!!!! If you do not do this, it can seriously screw up your hardware! You have been warned...
On a personal note, regions might seem like a good idea, but it seriously stink when you belong to Region 2 like me. I never buy movies in Region 2, I import them directly from the USA. It's even cheaper than buying them here.. I would never ever buy a DVD player which did not come without regions..
I don't know what this big thing about WinNT is all about. Easy, out of the box/Install-walk away is not really anything to brag about. In my school (as tradition there is) the computer students run their own server, it's basically a small p200/48/7GB thing. I installed it, did the configuerations needed, recompiled the kernel and Apache (for proper perl/php3) and rebooted for the 2nd time. It's only about a 100+ users, but it has run without downtime now for nearly a year. I never rebooted it once since the installation. Now, please show me the "out of the box" NT station doing this.... (Especially for over a 100 curious CS students). Also this thing about commandline/textfiles are just stupid. I think Linux is very structured and easy to maintain/configure _just_ because of this. There aren't a million subsubsub-menues and shit to "point and click" your way through like NT. GUI is, as far as I go, a hopless situation for maintaining a server. And if you feel like mass-operations in text mode is difficult, I have one word for you "Perl".. write once, reuse after that. If you are dependant on point and click, and unable to do a simple script to assist you, maybe that should tell you something before one goes out and complains loudly about text-mode interfaces and config files....
Textmode == No good ?? I got two words: Crontab, Scripts. Now, how can that really be beaten ?? GUI only limits your options in this, since you are reliant on what the author decides to put in there (if you don't plan on re-writing it yourself of course), and GUI also has the nasty habit of being resource taxing to keep running on a high-useage server. Better to tweak all your compiles and tune your regular commandline programs and deamons..
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This is a perfect reason why P2P web browser caches should be implemented! No more epic hw fail on sites (no more slashdotting) :-)
(of course, you _might_ want to slap some kinda security on that one ;-)
You don't live in a city where it snows in winter, do you. Bikes and snow do not mix, but once you get three or four wheels for stability, it's another matter entirely.
Oh hell yes. ;-)
Drunks have an invisible armor, Beer Armor, which protects them from _any_ injury. I firmly believe we'd see less accidents involving damage to people if just everyone on the roads were constantly drunk
Actually you just need minor modifications to modern car. In Sweeden, the E85 mix is readily availiable, and both SAAB and Volvo is selling cars that run on both E85 and regular unleaded. The reason for these minor modification is simply the higher strain on some parts due to the octane level of E85, which is 101 i believe (as opposed to 92, 95 and 98 which are the usual ones).c .shtml .. Just click on the BioPower and it has the normal engine preformance in there as well to compare between them.
Benefits of this is of course cleaner car emissions, but also a more potent mix, creating cars that actually put out more horsepowers than with 98 unleaded. Example is the new SAAB 9-5 Sportcombi Aero, which produces above 300 BHP using this fuelmix, as opposed to about 260 BHP in their Aero edition of the car on regular 98. Also, the 2.0t BioPower plant produces 180 BHP compared to the regular 150. This link will show you the difference in engine preformance (from SAAB): http://www.saab.com/main/SE/sv/model/95_WAGON/2/f
The cars are there, the fuel is of course getting more popular, and for the driver it seems to be a boon in terms of BHP output as well.
Cheers.
The norwegian market for broadband has a good deal of variation, depending on where you live (rural vs. city) and even what part of the cities you are in (some parts has access to very high-speed broadband and has had it since the end of the nineties).
You can find a total overview on this URL:
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302634.html
kr/mnd will show the price, they also rate it as a bang-for-your-buck. For comparison, you might do quick and dirty convertion for about 7 kr pr. US dollar, and 8 kr pr Euro.
Overall, broadband in Norway is now cheap and availiable in most parts. However, since we are still dominated by a few big players, development and deployment of new DSL standards are slow (they wish to have a dividend on their initial investments before moving on..).
If networking and I/O are to become increasingly difficult to tell apart (loosely from the article), will we also see a possible sharing of hardware devices across computers ? In todays officespace, there is a lot of redundancy going on, with machines and especially harddrive capacities of ridicolous prpotions to what they are actually used for (since certain software seems to be needing these and that specs).
If anyone could enlighten me on the aspect of using these serial "networking" I/O solutions to share resources based on external hardware, as well as a possible migrating I/O structure, that would be great. It seems this is a better solution than todays "exported network drive" system.
The salaries in norway really vary, but what I have come to find being very nifty is having your own small one-man business, but being sponsored by a bigger company, which hires you out to businesses across the board, as well as lets you do development work and different stuff. :)
Pays well, and the hours for a student like me is very flexible
On a sidenote, you can see anything between 80-100$ an hour doing regular network/server setups etc. I have heard of Linux/Unix people here not taking a job if it pays below 200$ an hour. And they usually get it (if you're good).
So the pay is good, but the cost of living and taxes in norway is steep. Atleast most of the social system is free of charge etc.
The difference between the two are more of an academical than user-related issue, as it is basically in the way they are built up. As far as journaling goes, they are both up to the task. :)
I do not know if ReiserFS is a true 64 bit one, handling the files as big as the XFS does, but a quick and dirty look at the two FS's homepages should yield a lot more info on this.
XFS and ReiserFS is not going to replace ext2. Actually, ext3 is, which will, when released, also be a journaling FS (from what I heard).
Maybe someone could provide the right urls or more info on this than I can. I believe in time, they will all be included into the kernel, and you can choose your preference based on your needs. In the meantime, make a small partition, insmod the module and mount the drive and play with it I guess
the discussion on LinuxToday has gone on for some time about the 2.4 kernel. I don't know if the dynamic resizing will be there, but this is what was said about LVM:
Joe Drew - Subject: Re: Raw I/O, LVM (1999-07-30 05:36:48)
In fact, both of these features will be added for 2.4. LVM support and raw I/O support are both already in; LVM is undergoing quite a
bit of hacking activity, but should be ready for 2.4.
Soon they'll be learning that it was actually a venture cooperation between Al Gore and MicroSoft that lead to what is genereally known as "the evolution" today.
While Al Gore was on the comittee, MicroSoft created the standards and buried the core of evolution deep, so to hinder competition through insight. In the spirit of these times, and not to be branded a monopoly, they have over time released small bits of outdated evolutionary specs to the public.
Who said history isn't constantly repeating itself ??
Eh.. "Slightly" off Topic, but ... This release was utter garbage. I am not surpriced that people experience problems with it.
I am sure fragmentation doesn't help either, the more fragmentation, the more codebase. In the world of Linux, fragmentation happens within several different companies (like distribution) and sometimes in various code-bases, but the fragmentation isn't covered by any one company, like with MSoft. The extra effort hurled into supporting and upgrading all these different fragmented code-bases, Win9x in all it's forms, winNT, W2k, WinCE etc. etc.
Maybe it is time for Windows to stop charter everyone and their kitchen sink, and start putting effort into releasing systems that fix things while not breaking other things. Win98 SE got the cute nick-name: Shit Edition after it refused to work on several peaces of hardware which its "old, buggy" version works just fine at.
In some 15 installs, the new edition has only worked on 2. Someone will probably scream: change your hardware, but seriously, I would rather just change to an OS that actually work with what I have (it seems like 98 SE has a special affinity for not working with various network cards).
It's about time Windows got it's stuff together, soon it won't even be good for playing games at if this is to continue, thus loosing it's usability all together.
Things change, it's that easy. What I think will make for a better road ahead, for those that wants to be special though, is simply that you get a very wide variety of hardware options.
If you want to be special, get an Alpha, or a PPc, or maybe go fot the upcoming Amiga.
On top of that, I do think we'll be seeing new and interresting alternatives showing up, especially heavily net, and distributed OS's, which will be pretty different from the traditional Unix model.
Hopefully though, the dependancies on network, and inter-connectivity will allow for a more or less seamless integrations through open standards. (A man can always hope).
I think Linux has shown that openness works, and hopefully this lesson will be remebered in the future as well.
It's interesting times ahead, and I think linux will do just fine in it's new enviroment as well. Who can tell the future in 5 years time anyways.
Here, they are going the other way around more or less. They lifted the restrictive way they had earlier on movies, and allowed for a larger freedom for what people could go to, especially if they were in the company of an adult. If people want to take their kids of 13 to see a movie rated 15, they are perfectly well allowed to. Also, beyond 15, the next age-limit is 18. This is restricted to a very few movies, where the contents are strong and graphic. Movies like Saving private Ryan.
They go by that movies should be shown in their whole, uncut versions, and rather be set at the right kind of age-limit. This is a policy I agree with, since it does not in any way diminish the movie-goers experience.
I simply don't think all movies are suited for everyone, but one should be liberal with the restriction of movies. I don't think American Pie will have a higher than 15 years limit here, since it is not graphically violent and gory, playing on your emotions, like the above mentioned SPR.
Neither do I belive South Park will. These movies are not damaging in any way, and like many other, I never could understand this thing about not seeing nudeness and sex for american youths, while it is perfectly okey to see log 10^10 people die in ultraviolent ways. After all, nudeness and sex is normal, while senseless killing isn't.
Just my 0.02$ worth
hehe.. I don't know what he's been smoking, but damn, I should really get some of that stuff!
*Long-hair linus guy who broke the eula (nyah nyah)
Well, for the people who wasn't fortunate to live, or visit the USA at the time of the premiere, actually getting a copy of the movie 2-3 days after it's screening wasn't such a bad thing.
I think bootlegging of TPM was successfull in other countries because Lucas for some fubar reason decided to wait 3-4 months releasing the movie to other countries (god knows why) and a lot of people was very eager to see it.
I agree that the movie definately belongs to the big-screen, but waiting for 3 months is hard when you can just see it today.
What's the price of free bandwidth and `screen`, anyways ?
I was just wondering, from what I have seen at Bugtraq and similar places, the number of ways to crack Admin access once being able to log onto a NT box is quite big. :)
Since BO gives you access as a user if installed (after all, the old BO was able to be wrapped into install-shields, undetected), you should be able to upload the hack to the server, and execute it to gain Admin access. Then reinstall the BO server from Admin user, and voila.
Maybe I am just being ignorant on NT's behalf, but I don't see Linux having the same number of availiable security holes once you actually have access to the server, and it's storage medium.
I mean one of the more crazy ones were just making a symlink as a user to a certain dir/file (I have forgot the exact details) and then re-login and you would be Admin. I find this, well, rather disturbing. I guess (hope?) they have closed this one off by now.
If you rely on having just trusted access to your server, what kinda security is that ? The internal security must be as good as the external one, if not, it's kinda mute point
Just my 0.2c on this.
Yes, now all we need is a dynamic web-frontend and a server to scan for computers infected. Then everyone whith a browser can join the fun!
This could actually be a neat project to run later on.. hehehe
Problem with BO is that it spreads like wildfire, you don't need any kind of knowledge to use it either, and it could be hard detecting it if the source is constantly changed around as well. Of course, it's not MY problem, so I just smile and nod and go on running my Linux and BSD's.
I never trusted an OS that didn't let you know what the hell you were doing anyways. Low down and dirty, it's the only way to be sure!
Actually, if you are looking for movies which plot take you nowhere, the acting suck, and you want a movie to set the absolute dice-roll of 0 on, you MUST see The church of Christ, without Christ. I bet you, it will eliminate all competition without much ado.
Of all the movies ever made (including cult gems like Plan 9)that movie is the one I can advocate to use as a all time low!
Actually, I think Male chorus line dancers wearing pink bikini briefs are kinda vile myself ;)
In europe, and probably other parts of the world, we already use digital cellphones, on the GSM net. I'm not an expert on this, but as far as I know, you cannot intercept a GSM call, unless you intercept it at the time the call is first made. After that, the encrypted signal key is changed at such a rapid rate, that only the two end-points of the phone-call is able to decrypt the signal again, having the keys. This is all done with a digital SIM card, that each phone has, and which is unique. You can also store phone# and such in the SIM-card, and thus transfer the data from phone to phone. Each SIM also has 4 sets of codes, one pair of regular, and one pair of Unlocking keys (4 and 11 numbers), and a SIM will not work anymore if you enter the wrong number 3 times in a row etc. (You need to use the unlock key to make it work again). :)
It might not be 100% perfect, but it is a secure and good way to do phonecalls throughout europe.
Analouge cellphones ? Thing of the past here
Uh oh.. I got the Obi-Wan. Now I really feel old and somewhat dull :-P
DRx2 has already been firmware fixed. I even think Creative had the frimware upgrade on their own website! Go check there.
This, in addition to using Remote Selector (Excellent program for windows (Drx2 isn't very stable in Linux yet..) although I do not have the url right now) you can set your DVD player to ANY region. It is not mearly region-free (Region code 0), it can be anything you wish. Neat when some movies refuse to work on region-free players.
IMPORTANT: Some versions of Drx2 (Like mine) uses a different base-player. I belive it's the Toshiba(but at the moment I can't recall) and they come region free from the shop!! Do NOT upgrade these! Make SURE your drive is the CORRECT one before applying any firmware upgrades for it !!!!!!! If you do not do this, it can seriously screw up your hardware! You have been warned...
On a personal note, regions might seem like a good idea, but it seriously stink when you belong to Region 2 like me. I never buy movies in Region 2, I import them directly from the USA. It's even cheaper than buying them here..
I would never ever buy a DVD player which did not come without regions..
I don't know what this big thing about WinNT is all about. Easy, out of the box/Install-walk away is not really anything to brag about.
In my school (as tradition there is) the computer students run their own server, it's basically a small p200/48/7GB thing. I installed it, did the configuerations needed, recompiled the kernel and Apache (for proper perl/php3) and rebooted for the 2nd time. It's only about a 100+ users, but it has run without downtime now for nearly a year. I never rebooted it once since the installation.
Now, please show me the "out of the box" NT station doing this.... (Especially for over a 100 curious CS students).
Also this thing about commandline/textfiles are just stupid. I think Linux is very structured and easy to maintain/configure _just_ because of this. There aren't a million subsubsub-menues and shit to "point and click" your way through like NT. GUI is, as far as I go, a hopless situation for maintaining a server. And if you feel like mass-operations in text mode is difficult, I have one word for you "Perl".. write once, reuse after that.
If you are dependant on point and click, and unable to do a simple script to assist you, maybe that should tell you something before one goes out and complains loudly about text-mode interfaces and config files....
Textmode == No good ?? I got two words: Crontab, Scripts.
Now, how can that really be beaten ?? GUI only limits your options in this, since you are reliant on what the author decides to put in there (if you don't plan on re-writing it yourself of course), and GUI also has the nasty habit of being resource taxing to keep running on a high-useage server.
Better to tweak all your compiles and tune your regular commandline programs and deamons..
I mean, come on... Who CARES?! Obscene domains, obscene web-servers.. what's next in line ?
It's not like noone's SEEN these words before...