unix n00bs

unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants

for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.

discuss.

>>102
I'm not quite sure what you mean. XML was the default plist format around 10.3 (I don't know about earlier versions). Since 10.4 they've been binaries by default and now (10.5) it seems that plutil doesn't even support NeXT plists anymore. Your post makes it sound like even a binary configuration file is superior to XML.