From July…

Ben: omfg
Ben: Ars – Information about new AD features in Longhorn Server emerge
Ben: welcome to novell DS in 1999
Ben: (psst its called subordinate in NDS language)
Grant: bwa
Ben: hilarious. srsly
Grant: i hear in the release after longhorn they’ll have this black window that you can type complex commmands into
Grant: and in the release after that, a server that is headless and you just type commands into it
Grant: :ultramon:
Ben: ha. monad /me puts shirt on head I need tp for my monad
Grant: :laffo:
Ben: reinvent unix amiright?
Grant: i know rite

I know it reads like /. IRC, but not-invented-here cynicism and reinventing-the-wheel grumbling are what geeks do between all the SF and keeping sofa’s and computer chairs from floating away.

Ars just put up a Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell.

I’m impressed, For the first time.

Does anything like this exist for Unix? Sure, ruby and php and Python all have shells that operate very similarly but command line tinkering is not the focus of any of them.