SCN: Re: SCN's web front page

[patrick]

Any competent and savvy web person should know Unix. They should know
that as much as they should know HTML. Not a guru, but an
understanding of how Unix works.

Unix is the operating system of choice for security and stability. 

I would not know about setting up websites unless I had a good
knowledge of Unix and directory structures and permissions and all
that. It is indispensible to know it, for one has a better idea of
how the internet works.

I would expect web editors and topic editors to have a fair knowledge
of Unix even if they do not use it. As much as I would expect them to
know HTML even if they never use it and simply stick to WSIWYG page
editors.

Again, this is a minor quibble. Unix text editors like vi and pico
are not rocket science. Sure, I have some learning to do myself, but
it is no big deal. Once I figure it out, I don't have to figure it
out again. And that goes for anyone else.

Patrick


--- Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org> wrote:
> > ... What is a big deal is getting familiar with the vi editor
> > or pico, neither of which I love with a passion. Neither of
> > which require a large amount of training to learn.
> 
> Patrick, 
> 
>    Today fewer and fewer sites are rushing backwards to the Unix
> of the 1980s (vi, etc.). Content editing tools are shifting more
> and more to the Web as a platform, so that content editors never
> have to see the arcana of the raw operating system command line.
> 
> > I did run into a small problem with updating the page in
> reference
> > to rwrap. I emailed JJ on in just a moment ago and it should be
> > fixed pretty quickly.
> 
>    I'm glad JJ was there to help you, and wasn't on vacation for
> thre
> weeks or something of the kind. For this and other reasons, JJ is
> now
> the absolutely indispensable person in the chain of events needed
> to
> edit your file successfully. I've seen the Unix programming code in
> rwrap, and it might take a lot of time for anyone unfamiliar with
> the
> program to read and study it enough to fix other problems that
> might
> come up besides the one you just mentioned that turned out to be
> preventing the file update. It seems that we have created a
> dependence on exactly one single programmer on earth to fix these
> kinds of problems. This is the opposite of the general trend today
> toward widely adopted and widely supported open source tools based
> on
> the Web platform.
> 
> > I hope that people don't feel I am taking sides and being
> > opinionated on this topic. I am saying that there are, of course,
> > only a couple of people, at the most, who will be updating the
> > homepage. With that, rwrap should be of little concern to anyone
> > else.
> 
>    Say hi to Kristen for me, or whoever the other person is.
> When she learns rwrap and vi, you can send me a postcard at this
> address:
> 
>    Rod Clark [clonereg-A237G-234]
>    1233-B-44678-G Plaza of the Year 2317
>    New New New Bothell, Mars 98109124-23764565
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
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