> BTW, note attributions: Roy's the one with strong feelings on the GUI's,
> I'm the one complaining about a move to a Java VM making Lucent customers
> dependent on having a VM ported to their platform :)
And I'm the one with strong feelings both about GUIs and becoming
dependent on modifying my runtime environments - plural, because what
I run on my desktop is not what I run on my servers is not what I run
on the laptop that goes with me to field sites. None of those
environments is what I occasionally borrow use of from the people who
host my remote POPs.
If I can turn up a new box or upgrade one with nothing more than a
terminal emulator on the console port and an upgrade file sitting on a
tftp server, and if I can manage my boxes via telnet and by dialing
into them, then I'll be happy.
I can almost do that now, but not quite - or at least I don't have
confidence I can. Somebody asked why the current tftp doesn't inspire
that confidence. It's because of dire warnings about making sure to
use release <whatever> of pminstall, messages like "rearranging files"
from pminstall, and that "tftp put comos server filename" uploads 810K
when the upgrade file is more than 1M.
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