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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation

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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:

> On 04/23/2014 05:59 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> TomB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 2014-04-22, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>>>
>>> 8<
>>>
>>>> * all messages logged on a date cat logfile | grep ^YYYY-MM-DD
>>>>
>>>> * first and last 25 messages on a date cat logfile | grep
>>>> ^YYYY-MM-DD | head -n 25 cat logfile | grep ^YYYY-MM-DD | tail -n
>>>> 25
>>>>
>>>> * all messages related to gparted cat logfile | grep gparted
>>>
>>> Yes, /that's/ how it's done ;-)
>>
>> Log viewer app?  How quaint.  Sounds like something Windows would
>> use.
>
> It's a Gnome app for Linux.  Been around forever.  The one in Ubuntu is
> copyrighted by the FSF... you know them, don't you?  The giggly twerps who sit
> around and bitch about Microsoft while begging for an allowance.
>
> Sound familiar?
>
>> And then, instead of using stock system tools (e.g. as noted above),
>> you end up with something like this:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385785(v=vs.85).aspx
>>
>>
>> The following are the programming elements that you use to create an
>> instrumentation manifest, create resources from the manifest that
>> your provider uses, get instrumentation metadata at run time, and
>> query events from channels and log files:
>>
>> -  EventManifest Schema -  Event Schema -  Query Schema -  Windows
>> Event Log Constants -  Windows Event Log Data Types -  Windows Event
>> Log Enumerations -  Windows Event Log Functions -  Windows Event Log
>> Structures -  Windows Event Log Tools
>>
>> And here's just the function page:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385784(v=vs.85).aspx
>>
>>
>>
>> Windows... the Rube Goldberg OS.
>
> Poor Creepy++
>
> "Boo hoo!!! Windows Event Logging is too complex!!  I likes me the simpleton
> Linux way: an unstructured text log file I can process wif cat, awk, grep, and
> pipes!"
>
> Problem with your girlie-man 'analysis' is Windows Event logging is
> complex (to you) because it's well-designed and professional and sophisticated,
> as opposed to Linux event logging which is unstructured and hobbyist and
> amateurish.
>

The problem with arseholes like Ahlstrom is that they seem to thing a
well designed "front end" somehow paralyses other tools. He's so 1337
with his command line "grep". What a weenie.

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Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-22 14:42 -0400
  Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.invalid> - 2014-04-22 20:51 +0200
    Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-22 16:19 -0400
      Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:31 +0000
        Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-04-23 05:59 -0400
          Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-23 06:50 -0500
            Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-23 08:42 -0400
            Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-23 10:21 -0400
            Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-04-23 08:54 -0600
            Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 13:07 +0200
          Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-23 08:38 -0400
          Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-04-23 08:53 -0600
          Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-23 18:05 -0400
            Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-23 18:12 -0400
              Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-23 21:37 -0400
            Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 13:17 +0200
          Re: Long Term Shithead: Bug #10 - whining about documentation Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 13:06 +0200
        Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-23 10:19 -0400
          Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 23:26 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #10 - log viewer app missing menus shown in documentation Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-22 12:35 -0700

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