On Saturday 25 August 2018 06:02:20 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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, 1947, damn these ancient fingers. > 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>
