On Saturday 25 August 2018 04:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 03:54:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've experienced that on a armbian install on a rock64, it takes > > sometimes 2 or 3 powerdown recycles to make a change in e-n-i.d/name > > of interface to stick [...] > > That sounds a bit like Voodoo. But then, there's Clarke's Third Law. > I looked it up, yes. But the wiki page, a ways down, says:
"seeing and hearing Linotype machines which slowly converted ‘molten lead into front pages that required two men to lift them.’ I had to chuckle about that because it brought up a memory from my childhood, 1047 or so. Those old frames were 4" bigger than todays papers, 2 pages wide, and probably weighed well over 250 lbs loaded and ready for the press. When I was in my early teens, and helping out in the darkroom at our local weekly paper, it only took one man to pick up that frame of Linotype, carry it out thru the back door to a shed over his press and place it on the bed of that press. his name was John Hines, stood about 6'5" and around 275 lbs, owned the paper & job shop and only wore white shirts to work and never once did he get any ink in them. One of the local brickyards supervisor guys was famous for a foul mouth, and John and his missus was in a benefit bridge game during an Old Settlers Re-union, & this guy came to a position behind Johns wife, with every third word being a foul word. John told him to watch his mouth, he replied "and what the F--k are you going to do about it? Johns butt never cleared the folding chair he was sitting on as he reached over his wife's head across the table and open handedly slapped him cold on the floor. The whole fire hall gave him a hand when he stood up, picked him up and laid him gently on a park bench just outside the front doors. End of problem. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. > Cheers > -- tomás -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
