[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Jeff Lightner]

Funny that.  

I've worked with literally dozens of other admins in various large
environments and can only think of one admin off the top of my head that
thought installing emacs was a worthwhile thing.  However, even that guy
used vi most of the time.  His comments were more "theory" than
"practice".  (He used emacs at college apparently.)

Every request I've ever had to install emacs came from development
teams.   However, since Mordac, The Preventer of Information Services,
is my hero I've always refused.  :-)

Uh oh here comes Phil with his giant spoon...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:36 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> I always love the vi vs emacs stuff. It lets me tell the difference
between
>> the programmers and the admins. :)
>>     
>
> Not always an accurate assumption though.  I would count myself more
of 
> a programmer then an admin, and in my early years, I was purely a C 
> programmer using vi.
>   

Strangely, I interpreted Jim in exactly the opposite sense than you 
did.  I thought
he was implying, "admins use Emacs, programmers use vi"...

I got started with Emacs when as a grad student I was made sysadmin of a
network of Sun workstations.  The first time I was confronted with vi,
years
later, I believe I panicked and killed the process from another console
:-)

-- JK

-- 
I do not particularly want to go where the money is -
 it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov

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