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John Goerzen wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0500, brian@pongonova.net wrote:

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>> I often wonder where >>technology went wrong when it turned down the path of what I call >>"prerequisite complexity," something I see quite often in my IT life: >>The idea that technology requires ever-increasing complexity, whether >>or not the problem that is being solved actually warrants it. > > Indeed. See XML :-)

Did I read right that they made /etc/inetd.conf (or was it inittab?) an XML file in Solaris10? Yuck!

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