Last night's talk.

[Jamon Camisso]

On 3/9/2011 4:40 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I daresay that, as well, other solutions have been becoming preferable
> to "ssh over there and edit something", between:
>
> a) Edit the cfengine configuration to "do something better," and then
> unleash it, so I don't even ever need to ssh over there.
>
> b) Edit the configuration in the [Git|Darcs|Svn|...] repo, check it
> in, and watch it get checked back out elsewhere.
>
> Those represent a shift from "do stuff" to "impose policy," which
> tends to be a more scalable way to think about administering systems.
>
> Tramp is still mighty cool :-).

Go figure, I've been editing puppet manifests all day with Tramp. In 
typical (it seems to me at least) Emacs fasion, the reason for doing so 
is, well, because I can ;)

Jamon
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