[Sussex] LINUX on Mini-ITX / Via?

[Geoff Teale]

Steve wrote:
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> You're forgiven; I'll knew you wouldn't mind a little gentle 
> ribbing :-)

Hmmm.. 

How can I put this delicately so as not to shock the young, impressionable,
innoccent folk on the list [looking at Jon, Tom and Adam]?  

OK, where I come from (Romney Marsh) the term "ribbing" is used to describe
an act that might be undertaken whilst wearing a small rubber device that
might, as a matter of preference, be "ribbed for extra pleasure".  

As to whether or not I wouldn't mind a gentle "ribbing", I feel that's a
rather sensitive matter and not appropriate for this list ;)

> But on Unix every thing is a file, it just than not every 
> file lives on 
> a file-system.  Other examples are: network connections.  Any 
> before you
> say it: Yes, I know plan9 does it better.

That's want I meant.. 

Damn.. you're way ahead of me.. I wa building up to saying we should be
rolling out Plan9 in businesses.  It has everything they really need -
E-Mail, a text editor, a calculator, a couple of databases, a web server and
an application for calculating the weight of stars based on radio-telescope
images of them ;)  Plus there's Glenda!
 
> I know SysAdmins that have done this for large systems.  They 
> have a master
> station on which they roll out any new config changes and then other
> machines
> rsync to the master.  The scripts and set-up details are even 
> being made 
> open source :-)

Cool.
 
> As I've said already, I know you could take a little gentle 
> ribbing.  

Leave it....

>But
> that's the problem with group of "intelligent" techies.  
> Since school my
> motto has been: As one learns from one's mistakes I'm getting 
> one hell of an
> education!

Oh yes indeed.  I'm off to try and convince the board to switch to Plan9..
somebody catch me as I come lying out of the boardroom ;)

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geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org
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