- You know when you take a class and there’s that guy who spends his time trying to prove to the instructor that he already knows the material by asking very pointed questions and having input on the answer? You know, the one who makes any lecture take almost twice as long as it needs to be?
- That jackass is even more annoying on a distance learning website.
- After using software to get a remote desktop on a system at the training vendor to do a practical lab this afternoon, I now remember why I prefer *Nix and command line interfaces.
- Hmmm, 30 seconds to draw a pretty picture and hit a button, or 8 seconds to type in the command, compare it to the one in the book to make sure I got it right, and hitting “Enter”. Decisions, decisions.
- I am, however, fortunate in that the software I’m training on this week is the version we are going to be upgrading to this spring. Usually I learn the old stuff just prior to an upgrade.
- For you non-geek guys out there, who I call “Those whom the gods are not punishing for past sins”, that would be like learning how to drive an American car with an automatic just before it was mandated that everyone drive a British car with a clutch on the other side of the road. Yeah, it’s still driving, but nothing is where you think it ought to be.
- It is a good thing that we have been taking extra time to do housework this week, because Girlie Bear’s friend’s family ran out of heating oil today and we were able to open our doors to her without having to run around like mad people.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on January 29, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/01/29/thoughts-on-the-day-209/
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ January 29, 2014After using software to get a remote desktop on a system at the training vendor to do a practical lab this afternoon, I now remember why I prefer *Nix and command line interfaces.
…and the most annoying thing I get at work involves people trying to use Secure Remote desktop to log into some of our Linux systems.
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daddybear71
/ January 29, 2014Why would someone do that? That’s why the good Lord made secure shell.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ January 29, 2014Apparently some of the visualization software runs better than way.
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