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Hooray for Alpine!
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Howard Schwartz
Feb 25, 2013, 3:19:43 PM2/25/13
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Just a post of gratitude to Eduardo and all others for keeping alpine
alive. On occasion, I've installed and tried to use one of the popular
Gui's. But I lasted about 4 minutes each time, before uninstalling it.
It is a gift to have a powerful program, with a simple interface,
sufficiently `old school' that hackers probably do not even think of
writing viruses and such that target it.
This sharply contrasts to trends especially in ``the cloud' and with
mobile devices: each new program or hardward device tends to have a busy
screen interface, whose ins and outs are often new - a creation of the
particular developer with little loyalty for, or concern with prior
standards that people are used to. So one must go hunting all over again,
for example, to find the search hotkey or menu item or whatever. They
also place files and databases and such in all sorts of unusual places.
And the cloud, of course is obsessively interested in selling us things,
or collecting info. to sell other people things.
alive. On occasion, I've installed and tried to use one of the popular
Gui's. But I lasted about 4 minutes each time, before uninstalling it.
It is a gift to have a powerful program, with a simple interface,
sufficiently `old school' that hackers probably do not even think of
writing viruses and such that target it.
This sharply contrasts to trends especially in ``the cloud' and with
mobile devices: each new program or hardward device tends to have a busy
screen interface, whose ins and outs are often new - a creation of the
particular developer with little loyalty for, or concern with prior
standards that people are used to. So one must go hunting all over again,
for example, to find the search hotkey or menu item or whatever. They
also place files and databases and such in all sorts of unusual places.
And the cloud, of course is obsessively interested in selling us things,
or collecting info. to sell other people things.
Lucas Levrel
Feb 27, 2013, 5:11:16 AM2/27/13
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Le 25 février 2013, Howard Schwartz a écrit :
> Just a post of gratitude to Eduardo and all others for keeping alpine
> alive.
+1.
> Just a post of gratitude to Eduardo and all others for keeping alpine
> alive.
> It is a gift to have a powerful program, with a simple interface,
∞ thanks!
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