From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 7 16:15:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4DA37B423 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13594; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:15:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010407171448.00e2be00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:15:26 -0600 To: Brad Knowles , Dale Chulhan - Home , "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" , My List , The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) In-Reply-To: References: <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt> <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:35 PM 4/7/2001, Brad Knowles wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, this whole "change and reboot" > thing is something that Microsoft invented with their OSes, because > they always assumed that these things were done once and once only, and > only on boot. The fact that it's taken Microsoft this long to be able > to handle changing an IP address without rebooting the machine (and > that you consider this such an important issue) is a clear indication > that you have smoked way too many recreational pharmaceuticals, as > distributed and given away by certain people of questionable intent > from Redmond. Indeed. (See the sig below.) --Brett ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message