[OT] Debian mailinglists [was: RE: Debian or Ubuntu?]

[Derek Broughton]

Avi Greenbury wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:59:57 -0300
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
> If you GUI tool exists to stop the user making stupid mistakes, and
> actually managed it, I would have been unable to do that.
> Had it not stopped me making what, in general, are stupid mistakes, it
> hardly seems better than a text file.

Do you actually intentionally make "stupid" mistakes that can never possibly
work?  That's what a config tool should prevent.  When a config value needs
to be a domain name, it may be desirable to permit domains that can't
currently be resolved, but it's never going to desirable to allow you to
enter a domain that could never be registered.

>> Idiots _never_ stop being idiots.  You surely know the saying: "The
>> difference between ignorance and stupidity is that the former is curable"
>> (Twain, I think).
> 
> The exact wording (and opinion on the meaning of 'idiot') is immaterial.

It's material, because there are many idiots that get put in the position of
having to maintain servers, and many of them will _not_ learn.  If they
can't learn, they should at least be prevented from screwing up the
servers.
-- 
derek