On 02/15/2017 07:34 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Too much temptation to resist, I don't know which one of us is older but I > have a feeling it's a "horse race". Like you, I still have a land line, WiFi > is too slow and "WiFi security" seems to be an oxymoronic phrase. Why people > text (or IM for that matter) anything other than a one-liner is beyond me. > > Now for the real issue, what happens when Network Manager (Systemd, journald, > etc.) breaks? Who is going to fix it? Hiding the complexity in software > effectively dumbs us down leaving us helpless when problems surface. Anyone > who has worked with Microsoft understands - give me the command prompt any > day rather than layers of GUI hiding those possibly cryptic but also possibly > useful messages. >
The people who are going to fix it are people who have RHCE certs and/or computer science degrees who work for the companies running Linux. And I am a few years old myself. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "m roth" <m.r...@5-cent.us> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 10:07:55 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, systemd, NetworkMangler, oh, my > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > <snip> >> I get it .. but no one needed a hand held cell phone before 1973 and no >> one needed a smart phone before 2007. Now, almost everyone has a smart >> cell and land lines are dying. Technology moves forward. People want >> integrated cloud, container, SDN technology, etc. Used a VCR or >> Cassette Player lately? > > I have no intention of *ever* getting an annoyaphone - I'm online all day > at work, before I go to work, and most evenings, in front of a *real* > computer. My cell's a flipphone, and I *LOATHE* texts... because the > protocol was developed for freakin' pagers, and after a job 20 years ago, > I don't EVER want that again. > > And my land line phone has *much* better voice quality than any cell/mobile.* > > And yes, I very happily have my VCR, for all the tapes I have, and a good > dual cassette deck (OK, I do want to burn them to disk... along with my > 200-300 vinyl records...oh, that's right, vinyl's coming back. <g> >
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