[!CrackMonkey!] PAM

[Miles Nordin]

>>>>> "sm" == Shawn McMahon <smcmahon at eiv.com> writes:

    sm> That is universally true.

oh.  well, now that it's clear we are pontificating about universal
truth, I am forced to concede the argument and bow before your
superior wit.  BTW I loved your brilliant slashdot post.

    sm> if you have 30 machines, each of which needs slightly
    sm> configuration?

You write 30 slightly different configuration files in C, check them
into CVS, compile them, and deploy them.

Guess what you do if you have 31 machines.

    sm> What if you then have to apply a change to the common
    sm> configuration of each of those boxes?  30 recompiles?

yes, 30 recompiles.

$ make

    sm> I don't even have ROOM to create a large enough swapfile [to
    sm> compile GNOME]

You've obviously never done this.  As a NetBSD user, I've built and
run gnapster on a 33MHz SPARC swapping over NFS.  Go suck goat teat,
pretender.

look, first learn how to use and configure emacs.  Then go read my
``there is no such thing as an interpreter'' essay.

 <http://sakima.Ivy.NET/~carton/academia/java_languageoftomorrow.html>

Then you can come back and make more foolish statements about why
writing custom YACC grammars for configuration file languages will
save you time by ``eliminating the compiler.''  

stupid sysadmin.  You should know better than to challenge my
rhetorical questions.

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invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.''
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