Problem 1: no tools, solution 1: get some.
good point! and 'some' should be perl and ssh.
that should actually read; no tools? include some.
Perhaps not that hard for that one particular tool. But one of the
complaints that some people have against Windows is that you get a whole lot
of stuff you don't need. OK, so they add Perl and Bash. Then someone
complains that something else is missing...
thatd be because lots of tools are missing from windows. but lets start
with the basics. included are: two text editors, one web browser, one
desktop window manager, no hardworking cli, two interpreters (cmd.exe,
wsh/cscript), no ssh client, no decent packet dumpers, etc.
i have a bad feeling this is turning into a windows bashing thread.. i
really didnt intend to start anything like this.
also, im not so concerned about bash not being ported to windows. i
think that was mentioned by someone else a few threads up.. while i do
love bash, the fact that its missing from windows is not really a prob.
Technically, I do not think that that is the actual reason wmp is bundled,
but then, I do not now how religious the folks at Microsoft are.
if religious means 'makes decisions in the best interest of their
products longevity and their competitors demise at the cost of
usability, security, and stability'. then, microsoft is the holy land.
That depends. On a server, both are of little interest to me, and I'll bet
that there are people out there (shudder) running wmp on servers who have
never even heard of Perl. So the question is: useful to whom?
im thinking those are the ppl working help desk and windows server phone
support. nothing against those guys, i worked phone support for many
years as well. its just a server running on a desktop for consistency
with the customer is not the same as a server running in a farm
supporting databases, applications, and directory services.
im not a anti ms zealot and am in fact an mcse 3 times over. just
thought id see how everyone else feels about some of the tools missing
from windows.
