On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 12:06, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 14:28, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What about having something like DNS, so that users > > > could name their SCSI devices? I see that www.sun.com > > > is really 209.249.116.195, but my web browser doesn't > > > make me type that in. There's no "mozilla -scanweb" to > > > spit out IP addresses. I just use www.sun.com, which > > > is much easier to remember. It's also good for Sun, > > > since they can change the machine used for www.sun.com > > > without having to disable the old box. > > > > > > Am I mistaken? Do you always type in the numbers? > > > If you don't, please try it for a week. > > > > > > We do the same thing for usernames. You type "schilling" > > > to login, don't you? I doubt you type your UID number. > > > > > > It's nice to be able to have the same account name > > > on different systems, even when you can't get the > > > exact same UID number. > > > > Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features > > that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord > > Hmmm, that's pretty good. > > Do you think you could make all the other programs > use that file too? If I define my CD-RW as QueFire > in that file, then "mount QueFire /mnt" had ought > to mount it I think. Also, "dd if=QueFire" should > read from the device, and "cat QueFire" too. It could > get kind of confusing if I had a file named QueFire > as well though. Perhaps there is a better solution?
Maybe I didn't explain this well enough. Consider those web addresses again. They don't just work in Mozilla. They work with ping, and with traceroute too! So I never bother to remember the numbers, and I don't have to set up separate config files for each program. Heck, I don't even have to set up any config files. It would really suck if traceroute only took the numbers, and if ping wanted them in a different format, like maybe hex or something. How could I keep track of all that? All my Internet programs take the names though, so it's easy. Even sending you an email takes a name. It sure would suck if I had to put your UID number and IP address into some /etc/defaults/evolution file just to send an email to you, and then in a different file if I wanted to use mailx or kmail or mutt or pine... I guess if I want numbers, maybe they'd work. Nobody does that though, not even you. Do you think you could remember my UID number and IP address? You could have an /etc/defaults/mailx file for them if they're hard to remember. The concept works great for files too. Solaris never makes me open a file by the inode number. I doubt that would be allowed even, probably because nobody wants to open files by inode number. Just think if I had to do "vi 052525252" (using octal, since vi is really old) or "pico 5a5a5a" (in hex, since pico is much newer). Maybe a few programs would be decimal or even binary, or they'd use dotted-quad notation like IP addresses. I guess there could kind of be an /etc/defaults/vi file to look up the inodes, but you couldn't edit it that way until after you had edited it! So that would be rough I guess. There'd be so many of those files to set up. You'd need one for every app, but at least it wouldn't be a layering violation like it is when you refer to a file by a filename. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]