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[Belxjander <Belxjander AT 202-0-42-165.paradise.net.nz>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 21:11, Chris Brien wrote:
> Originally, my machines were named after the hitch hikers guide the galaxy.
> My first Cyrix box was called Marvin, after the paranoid android. After
> upgrading that to an athlon, it got renamed to Deep-Thought.
>
> Now, my main sourcemage box (the athlon) is called Orthanc; Sarumans
> stronghold in Isengard which even the Ents couldn't break.
>
> The Cyrix is now called Cyril. I'm not entirely sure why.
>
> Chris

Whichever machine?

I have my Amiga named "Enterprise" as it generally runs things
  and this Machine has multiple names "Sorcery" within the "SourceMage"
  Samba Domain, Diabolism when in Windows and "Sorcery" as the localhost name

I am thinking of purchasing "sourcemage.geek.nz" and "sourcemage.org.nz"
  DomaiNZ addresses and setting up a whole swath of things from that

> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 3:14 am, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The other day I was thinking of a name to call my computer, I tried to
> > come up with something related to sorcery and finally came up with
> > "Orb". My other box is called "Bluemoth".
> >
> > I'm just wondering what people call their computers.
> >
> > Duane.
>
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Sorry, but I'd rather chew off my own leg than use an init written in bash. 

(I come at things from the opposite end of the spectrum, and I think SMGL 
needs less bash, not more.)

We should concentrate on fixing things that are broken, rather than breaking 
things that are fixed.

Tony

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 7:25 am, Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
> M.L. wrote:
> > Right but is it really necessary to reinvent the weel in bash ?
> >
> > I'm not part of the developer team, but I thinks being 100% bash based is
> > not the main SMGL's goal. Then, it's not even the easyest way to do
> > certain things, as you said.
>
> Although I *do* love bash (and have contributed a few lines of bash
> code), I am pretty sure I would not want an all bash SMGL.
>
> Talk about speed and, of course, reinventing the wheel. For example
> replacing init with a bash version would only make sense to me
> if it significantly improved on init. Why replace something that is
> perfectly stable, well-understood and does its job like a machine?
>
>    The power of bash is *combining* standard tools in an
>    easy and comfortable way - not *replacing* them!
>
> Greetings and thumbs up for the development team,
> Peter
>
> P.S.: <DISCLAIMER>I'm not on the developer team, either.</DISCLAIMER>