Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 14:41:52 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS vs. GUI? (was: Microsoft brainrot...) Message-ID: <199709280511.OAA04673@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:02:57 CST." <199709280502.XAA21135@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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> Now, why don't we trash all of the record types and listboxes and such > and design a DNS configuration tool that displays these in a meaningful > manner? Including a reasonable inheritance mechanism, so that when you > place host "foo" within domain "bar.com", if no "Mail Exchanger" > attribute is specified for "foo", it will inherit the one from > "bar.com". Need I mention that once you're done, you can probably sell > it for quite a bit of money? > > (Hmmm. This might be the application I've been looking for to *really* > learn Java. Where's that Visual Cafe, dag nabbit?) Oops. I should just finish that named-format parsing code I was writing for Juliet and let you write the frontend for it. Are you serious about this? I am. > Database theory. Something Terry knows just enough about to shoot at > people who know *nothing* about it. If Terry knew a little more about > database theory, he'd realize that almost *no* working databases get > past the second normal form because nobody but database experts can > spend enough time to work the entire database into the third normal > form. ;^) Oi! I wrote some Tcl to help 2NF -> 3NF for an assignment earlier this semester. Part of the problem this highlighted is that unless you're real careful in your earlier specification (especially naming things) your database ultimately sucks no matter what form its in. 8) mike (and where's my commentary? You've had all day and more! 8)
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