Re: What is the maximal length of usernames on Solaris?

From: I R A Darth Aggie (sy_nttvr_at_gurcragntba.pbz)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: 25 Nov 2003 16:35:32 GMT

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:58:59 GMT,
Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net>, in
<jtmckee-5B7D42.18585622112003@netnews.attbi.com> wrote:
+> In article <slrnbs02ml.3o0.sy_nttvr@gurcragntba.pbz>,
+> sy_nttvr@gurcragntba.pbz (I R A Darth Aggie) wrote:
+>
+> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:08:34 GMT,
+> > Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net>, in
+> > <a9gvrvsptpa5tehd805p8ltjqougsfc72e@4ax.com> wrote:
+> > +> On 22 Nov 2003 19:52:25 GMT, sy_nttvr@gurcragntba.pbz (I R A Darth
+> > +> Aggie) wrote:
+> > +>
+> > +> >On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:32:38 GMT,
+> > +> >Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net>, in
+> > +> ><u8evrv4dphn1c4k8rj88n9c1l01p75k6eg@4ax.com> wrote:
+> > +> >
+> > +> >+> What is frustrating about the user friendliness of Windows?
+> > +> >
+> > +> >The fact that you can't get a decent error message? that applications
+> > +> >can and do fail silently?
+> > +>
+> > +> Please, let's keep this to the discussion at hand.
+> >
+> > What's "user friendly" about an application failing silently?
+>
+> We're dicussing how the user interacts with the system.

Yes.

+> Therefore I think that it should be obvious that your example falls
+> outside the scope of the topic at hand.

I think not. Take your favorite windows machine, and double click an
icon, or otherwise try to start an application. Let's say it fails
silently. So you sit for a second or 5 or 20 and wait...and when the
computer does *nothing* you double click it again.

Now, what good is that user interface if it doesn't tell you that it
can't or won't do what you want it to do -- and the user isn't trying
anything exotic or weird?

+> I hope that you're not just engaging in pedantic nit picking.

No, that's your speciality. I was giving you a Real World example. Tho
in my case, the application only sort of failed silently. It didn't
produce a window like it should, nor did it fail. It launched a
process, but got no further. Now the typical user is going to try
several times to launch the application.

I'll let you guess how many instances of that app was running on their
machine before they called me to complain that their Winbox was
"running really slowly". Hint: it was a number between 5 and 10.

<snip of strawmen>

James 

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