In AmandaRestorePrograms I wrote, about what to do if Amandadidn't recognize properly recognize which sort of dump program it had used to back up a filesystem:

• put a ' restore ' program (either a cover script or just a symlinkto ufsrestore ) somewhere in our $PATH when we do Amanda restores.

Allow me to correct myself: this doesn't actually work as I wroteit. (When I wrote the original article, we hadn't had to actually testthis; we have since then.

Here is a corollary to what standard interfaces are good for , in the form of a thesis:

The web excels at standardized interfaces, but requires increasinglyheroic amounts of work for excellent customized ones (once you wantto step out of what the browser gives you). This implies that webapplications are a natural fit for occasional usage things, where anyawkwardness of the web interface is overcome by the advantage of nothaving to learn yet another custom interface that you use for tenminutes once every month, or for things