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Unix Dependency For some reason, just sitting here musing, I found myself thinking of my home directory. How cozy a Unix $HOME can be. You know where things are, your tools are handy... But you also have the freedom to make a big mess. Save way too much email, and usenet snippits, mkdir of the moment idea warehouses for whatever occurs to me. Strikes me as a lot nicer than a right-click here and a left-click there, and a dialog, and an OK. And I miss my $HOME when I'm away, too, so much that I set a cron job to email me with the dynamic IP if my wife happens to get online. Not watching what she's doing (what's with this 'spyware' crap, anyway?) -- just happy for a moment or two at $HOME if I can ssh in before she disconnects. She doesn't stay on forever like I do. And that's part of what's so cool about the shell... Login and -plop- you're at $HOME. Go at it or learn how. GUIs have their uses, but you always wind up with a desktop. Work. That's what a GUI is for -- to make you work. Follow the bread crumb trail of OK boxes, give that mouse arm a workout. While those of us at home in a shell (where one has Perl to compensate for minor irritations) can wiggle our fingers and make entire filesystems disappear, lickety split. What's not to be dependent on?

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