More on the Windows work process
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| And yes, I know that there are keyboard shortcuts for applications like Word,
| but I don’t know many people who routinely use more than a half dozen of the
| most obvious ones - and even those often seem more like keyboard macros than
| editor commands.
|
| And no, I’m not saying that the point click and wait approach isn’t useful -
| it’s great where the user isn’t knowledgeable about the application. What I
| am saying is that people want to learn, and therefore that the key reason the
| Windows work process is such an enormous invisible productivity killer
| everywhere the PC gets used is simply that it neither supports, nor
| recognises, nor rewards learning.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=914
Related:
Along the Commandline
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| Naturally, we talk about the BSDs, Linux and Mac OS X whenever we speak
| about shells and commandline interfaces. But why does the commandline
| have a reputation that belies its power? Why did the hold over users'
| minds exercised by Apple and Microsoft lead to an almost complete
| rejection of commandline interaction? Why do we, the masters of
| the commandline, feel slightly sheepish in the presence of the
| GUI builders?
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http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/205
Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS (video)
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| In this, the fifth and penultimate edition of our weeklong series of
| video clips taken from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen at
| the Red Hat Summit in San Diego, the good professor explains how he
| came to meet and do legal work for Richard Stallman.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1645226&tid=41&tid=12
He talks about "Point and Grunt" as the end of language.
When will we hear the end of computer quacks?
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| So why beat the dead skunk again? Check it out: Don Norman discovered
| command line interfaces! And he's about to take his discovery to the
| press! Yes, he thinks this is an original discovery all his own.
|
| [...]
|
| I can't wait until Microsoft invents apt-get so he can fawn over it next...
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=when_will_we_hear_the_end_of_computer_qu&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Geek to Live: The command line comeback
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| The advent of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) forever
| revolutionized personal computing. A windowed system with point
| and click icons made computers usable for anyone who couldn't deal
| with a black screen and a prompt waiting for arcane textual commands.
| But in recent years, this enormous interface change is coming full
| circle. Amongst power users - and more and more, regular Joe's - the
| command line is making a comeback in modern web and desktop
| applications.
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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/command-line/geek-to-live--the-command-line-comeback-226223.php
http://tinyurl.com/y88w3w
Who needs the command line? (Well, actually, we all do)
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| "We'll always have Paris", Humphrey Bogart said to Ingrid Bergman
| in the iconic climax of Casablanca - and we will always have the
| command line. Here's looking at you kid!
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/who_needs_the_command_line_we_all_do
Death of the command line
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| It's hard for me to imagine using an OS without a strong command line.
| Even Microsoft has recognized the for that with their Monad Shell
| (though they are at least temporarily removing that from Vista). Linux
| of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults
| to Bash) - everybody knows you need a shell.
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/command_line_death.html
You use Command Lines all the time and don't know it!!!
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| Man, the heat Linux catches over command lines! The flames! The trolls!
| The clueless screaming for help! And all the while, command lines are
| right under your nose the whole time! Yes, even on the most mousy,
| GUI-driven, WIMPy, point-n-drool interface, whether it be Macs or
| Microsofties, you're typing commands into prompts every day!
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=156&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Microsoft PowerShell isn't Vista-ready, either
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| As a few other bloggers noted yesterday, Microsoft's newly
| released PowerShell command-line shell and scripting language
| doesn't currently work with Windows Vista.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=105
Worm targets Windows PowerShell script
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| Virus writers have created an experimental form of malware written in
| Windows PowerShell script, the command line and scripting language used by
| Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/01/powershell_worm/
Microsoft PowerShell to make it into Longhorn Server, after all
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| Microsoft's command-line scripting shell, originally code-named
| "Monad," and known now as Windows PowerShell, is going to be
| part of Longhorn Server, after all.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=352
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