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will I be able to do it ?
Post 4480 by Neo on Wednesday 25th of July 2001 05:26:04 AM
07-25-2001
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Microsoft networking is 'graphical click and popup based' and assumes that the user is not interested in learning about the detail of how the actual network processes work. The overal philosophy is 'users don't care about the details, they want it to be spoon fed to them'.
UNIX is built on a quite different philosophy. One of the tenants of that philosophy is that the user needs to "command the system" and not "the system commands the user." This results in the need to learn an incredible amount of detail about the underlying processes and structures.
This board assumes that newbies are self-motivated with a strong desire to learn. We cannot motivate nor advise folks on how to make a mental shift from the mindset created by point-and-click experience.
I can tell you that on the server-side, point-and-click is normally risky and takes much more time than understanding the command line side. However, on the desktop side, point-and-click has merit.
I'm very suprised to read you are an electrical engineer and a C programmer but are not inclined to dig in a learn UNIX from the posts you reference.
Perhaps a nice expresso machine and a month in isolation with your favorite UNIX platform? This is how most of us got started
UNIX is built on a quite different philosophy. One of the tenants of that philosophy is that the user needs to "command the system" and not "the system commands the user." This results in the need to learn an incredible amount of detail about the underlying processes and structures.
This board assumes that newbies are self-motivated with a strong desire to learn. We cannot motivate nor advise folks on how to make a mental shift from the mindset created by point-and-click experience.
I can tell you that on the server-side, point-and-click is normally risky and takes much more time than understanding the command line side. However, on the desktop side, point-and-click has merit.
I'm very suprised to read you are an electrical engineer and a C programmer but are not inclined to dig in a learn UNIX from the posts you reference.
Perhaps a nice expresso machine and a month in isolation with your favorite UNIX platform? This is how most of us got started
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eboard
EBOARD(6) Games Manual EBOARD(6) NAME
eboard - a graphical chess board SYNOPSIS
eboard [-log] [-debug] [-dgtport device ] DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly describes the eboard command. eboard is a graphical chess board. It acts as an interface to chess engines (like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty) and Internet Chess Servers (ICS) like FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and works as a browser for chess games saved as PGN (Portable Game Notation) files. eboard itself is not a chess engine: it won't play games, it will just act as a graphical interface between programs that play games like GNU chess (or ICS servers) and the end-user. To move pieces click on the source square and then click to destination square. Optionally, you may drag the piece from the source to the destination square (you won't see the piece being dragged). To drop pieces on crazyhouse and bughouse variants (ICS-only) right-click the destination square and select the piece to drop from the popup menu. For help with ICS commands consult the server (most of them have online help and help channels). For help setting up associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.) see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/eboard or visit the eboard web site at http://eboard.sourceforge.net. If the documentation is not installed in your system, you can find it in the source dis- tribution, available from the web site. OPTIONS
-log Log network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". Communications held in password mode are not logged. -debug Print miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard". -dgtport device Use the DGT board connected to the given device. AUTHORS
eboard is being developed by Felipe Bergo. This manual page was written by Felipe Bergo <bergo@seul.org> and Daniel Burrows <dbur- rows@debian.org>. WEBSITE
http://eboard.sourceforge.net January 22, 2007 EBOARD(6)