Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 07 May 2013 15:46:27 Victor Churchill wrote: > > > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the > > > > answer > > > > > was "To check that everything is O.K." > > In the same vein as the above, after a major change it's as well to check > that things are not br

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 07 May 2013 15:37:46 +0100 Gordon Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 14:43 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* > -8<- > > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, > > the answer was "To check that everything is

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Victor Churchill
> > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the > answer > > was "To check that everything is O.K." > In the same vein as the above, after a major change it's as well to check that things are not broken and *will* start up again OK next time you *do* a reboot. And the qu

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Gordon Scott
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 14:43 +0100, Lisi wrote: > and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* -8<- > *In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the answer > was "To check that everything is O.K." I _like_ to reboot sometime after an upgrade, to confirm t

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Michael Daffin
You never *need* to reboot unless you upgrade the kernel, otherwise you just need to reboot the services you have updated. Once you restart all the services that were updated it should behave just like you rebooted. However, sometimes it is easier and quicker to just reboot... Quite often, a logou

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread john
Hi Actually sometimes you do need to reboot. I have experience of upgraded programs not working until the system is rebooted. John Eayrs On Tuesday 07 May 2013 14:43:25 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote: > > I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the aut

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-05-07 Thread Lisi
On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote: > I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too > much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing > 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows > users reading it who will expect s

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-22 Thread Leszek Kobiernicki 1
On 15/03/13 09:55, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: > On 15/03/13 08:54, Sean Gibbins wrote: >> Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or >> indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? >> >> A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be >> asking this que

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-16 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 22:38, john lewis wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:07:09 + Sean Gibbins wrote: I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. There were a couple

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread john lewis
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:07:09 + Sean Gibbins wrote: > I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) > excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with > some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. > > There were a couple of other inaccuracies too, re

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:07:09PM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: > I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far) > excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with > some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand. It's annoying when that sort of thing hap

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 17:22, Victor Churchill wrote: I'd concur with all the comments above. Loved Cryptonomicon, and also the Baroque Cycle, in differnet ways. I actually thought REAMDE, whilst being a good romp, was a bit flat in comparison; devent yarn but did not have the depth and the quasi-fracta

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Victor Churchill
On 15 March 2013 13:44, Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 15/03/13 13:10, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > >> The author in question is a pretty tech-savvy and generally smart guy, >>> hence >>> the question, but I shouldn't have doubted my intuition on that one. >>> >> At a guess, some newish Neal Stephenson nove

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 13:10, Imran Chaudhry wrote: The author in question is a pretty tech-savvy and generally smart guy, hence the question, but I shouldn't have doubted my intuition on that one. At a guess, some newish Neal Stephenson novel? /me currently reading Cryptonomicon on and off. Correct on

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Imran Chaudhry
> The author in question is a pretty tech-savvy and generally smart guy, hence > the question, but I shouldn't have doubted my intuition on that one. At a guess, some newish Neal Stephenson novel? /me currently reading Cryptonomicon on and off. -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 15/03/13 09:55, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote: On 15/03/13 08:54, Sean Gibbins wrote: Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be asking this question, with t

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Leszek Kobiernicki 1
On 15/03/13 08:54, Sean Gibbins wrote: > Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or > indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? > > A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be > asking this question, with the clue that it doesn't relate to any > r

[Hampshire] [OT] Friday Fun Question

2013-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
Okay, a bit off the wall this, but does Tor require a reboot, or indeed many reboots, to install it under Linux? A virtual pat on the back to anyone who can identify why I might be asking this question, with the clue that it doesn't relate to any real-world Tor installation! Sean -- music,