On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:36:36PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 11:24:16AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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> > > I suggest netwiz. Or ifwiz, which does not exist on google. I would
> > > avoid ipwiz, since there apparently exists already a tool named ipwiz
> > > for macosx.
> >
> > Ah. The interactive wizards that run your system for you.
> > A trendy name, suitable if you like the Windows approach.
> > So let netwiz be the GUI front end, and let netmgr be the back end.
> > Let us install one without the other, and write new front ends far
> > into the future.
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> Eheheheh! I didn't have in mind Windows at all when I suggested ifwiz,
> to be honest :) I haven't seen a Windows installation in the last 15
> years or so, so if there are wizards over there, their power has not
> had any effect on me lately. Or perhaps I should put back on my
> tinfoil-hat...
>
> The only "wizard" I remember was an icon in the front page of the
> setup tool of KDE 1.something :D

Not absolutely sure, but Windows was the first place I saw where people
routinely ended up using setup wizards (that was what they were
called, wizards) to do incomprehensible things to their systems when
installing software or hardare or such.

-- hendrik