BSD rarely causes tremors, unless you're trying to clean a directory and realise that you just typed 'rm -rf/' as root. (This also happens under Linux/Minix/Solaris/AIX).
The ultimate goal in CS (why yes, I am quite certain) is to make the computer transparent. Not transparent in the Jony Ive kind of way, but transparent in that anyone can use it with minimal fuss and no experience.
Erm, not really. It's impossible to use something with no experience. Sure, you can make it easy to figure out how to use something, so that with a few minutes of experimentation your typical crack monkey can figure out how to do basic tasks using your interface. However, once they've gone through this learning process, they have experience, and before they go through the process, they are unable to use it.
The word you're looking for is intuitive, not transparent. Intuitive interfaces map to something the user understands easily. One reason the point 'n click interface is popular is that it's easier for the user to make a connection between clicking on the icon and the application coming up than it is to associate typing 'ls -lh' with a listing of file details along with human-readable sizes.
See, the attitude was on your side. "I just wanted it to work." You were trying to set up a fairly complicated server application, and didn't want to take the time to read the relevant part of the documentation. This is like wanting to assemble a radio without having to go to all the trouble of reading a circuit diagram.
Setting up a server is not a typical everyday enduser task, and therefore shouldn't necessarily receive as many usability enhancements and support efforts.
I note in your comment that you did, in fact, recieve the help you desired. So basically what happened was: you wanted to be spoonfed the info; people said "We don't spoonfeed here. Feed yourself."; and then someone spoonfed you the info.
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XML has no parentheses. It has angle brackets. So there.
Which fails less than halfway through because the user made a typo. In this case, 'bootsrap' ne 'bootstrap'.
BSD rarely causes tremors, unless you're trying to clean a directory and realise that you just typed 'rm -rf /' as root. (This also happens under Linux/Minix/Solaris/AIX).
The word you're looking for is intuitive, not transparent. Intuitive interfaces map to something the user understands easily. One reason the point 'n click interface is popular is that it's easier for the user to make a connection between clicking on the icon and the application coming up than it is to associate typing 'ls -lh' with a listing of file details along with human-readable sizes.
See, the attitude was on your side. "I just wanted it to work." You were trying to set up a fairly complicated server application, and didn't want to take the time to read the relevant part of the documentation. This is like wanting to assemble a radio without having to go to all the trouble of reading a circuit diagram. Setting up a server is not a typical everyday enduser task, and therefore shouldn't necessarily receive as many usability enhancements and support efforts. I note in your comment that you did, in fact, recieve the help you desired. So basically what happened was: you wanted to be spoonfed the info; people said "We don't spoonfeed here. Feed yourself."; and then someone spoonfed you the info.