Comment Re:Not just sittin' pretty (Score 2) 496
GUI based admin tools aren't bad in and of themselves, but they tend to solve the wrong problem. One of the reasons that NT administrators are often pretty clueless is that the gui stuff gives you the illusion of being able to competently administer a system without understanding what's going on under the hood. That's dangerous. There's nothing wrong with them if they're there to make it more convenient to do something that you already know enough to do without them though.
