Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-20 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:36:20 -0800 (PST) Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: Because the F'ing vendors of those devices only make their config/management tools able to run under windows and the bulk of your staff are thoroughly perplexed as to the nature and reason for a command line.

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:39 am, Shawn Tayler wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:36:20 -0800 (PST) Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: Because the F'ing vendors of those devices only make their config/management tools able to run under windows and the bulk of your staff are

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-20 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:22:24 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: On a side note, the online documentation states that you can run kermit over ssh using command line options. Kermit appears to be quite extensive in abilities. Once again, I find myself with much to learn.

One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread James McDonald
Folks, For those of you in an admin role you may sympathize with this. I just had to change the IP addresses on a series of radios linking the sites of the company I work at. Because we only have windows I had to take a laptop up to the radio repeater site and use it to change each ip

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:08:00 +1100 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, For those of you in an admin role you may sympathize with this. I just had to change the IP addresses on a series of radios linking the sites of the company I work at. Because we only have windows I had

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Ken Moffat
James McDonald wrote: I had to reboot g. Now if I had linux on the laptop Why do you not have linux on that laptop? -- Ken ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.2K bytes, James McDonald blathered: [...] Because we only have windows I had to take a laptop up to the radio repeater site and use it to change each ip address. The problem was that windows (w2k) will allow you to change your ip address once but if you try it again it prompts

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:43 pm, Ken Moffat wrote: James McDonald wrote: I had to reboot g. Now if I had linux on the laptop Why do you not have linux on that laptop? Or why not use a Knoppix CD or even boot a floppy with Tom's RTBT? --

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Tim Wunder
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 7:08 pm, someone claiming to be James McDonald wrote: Folks, For those of you in an admin role you may sympathize with this. I just had to change the IP addresses on a series of radios linking the sites of the company I work at. Because we only have windows I

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: James McDonald wrote: I had to reboot g. Now if I had linux on the laptop Why do you not have linux on that laptop? Because the F'ing vendors of those devices only make their config/management tools able to run under windows and the