Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:09:11 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free software and politics (Forwarded from lucio@proxima.alt.za) Message-ID: <35B8A397.6034D5B9@softweyr.com> References: <199807231732.KAA25434@usr04.primenet.com> <35B7BA13.EF8A4ED2@softweyr.com> <xzpn29zvgn0.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
>
> Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes:
> > haven't touched it since I left. This is (amusingly enough) a K5-133
> > running 2.2.5 + a couple of security updates, and hasn't been rebooted
> > since they changed its IP address on Jan 20. ;^)
>
> What, they rebooted the computer just for an IP change? The mind
> boggles.
They wanted to make sure they'd gotten the configuration files right,
so it would come up correctly if it ever needed to reboot again. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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