Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant, gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-06 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Wed Jun 04 14:14 -0400, Jason Straight wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:06 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: Doesn't ifplugd also solve the problem some saw where, if they happened to be disconnected from the network for some reason, it would sit there on boot trying to get an IP address for

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant, gibberish,out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-06 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Levi Ramsey wrote: On Wed Jun 04 14:14 -0400, Jason Straight wrote: Perhaps during install asking if the system will be used as a server it should not have ifplugd? I've proposed it before, but here goes again: Why not have multiple editions of

[Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Straight
Ok, now that I've taken time to collect myself and calm the fsck down. Why is ifplugd default? If it's for laptop users who switch network locations: 1. Why build the distro for laptops when more use it on desktops? 2. Who ever switches network cables and needs to have it reconfigured for

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish,out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: Ok, now that I've taken time to collect myself and calm the fsck down. Why is ifplugd default? If it's for laptop users who switch network locations: 1. Why build the distro for laptops when more use it on desktops? Let's

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Straight
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:42 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Jason Straight wrote: Ok, now that I've taken time to collect myself and calm the fsck down. Why is ifplugd default? If it's for laptop users who switch network locations: 1. Why build the distro for laptops when more use it on

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant, gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 18:42, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: Ok, now that I've taken time to collect myself and calm the fsck down. Why is ifplugd default? If it's for laptop users who switch network locations: 1. Why build

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant, gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Straight
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:06 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: Doesn't ifplugd also solve the problem some saw where, if they happened to be disconnected from the network for some reason, it would sit there on boot trying to get an IP address for five minutes? ISTR that's one of its functions,

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish,out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:42 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: 2. Who ever switches network cables and needs to have it reconfigured for them? Users (ie not admins). I mean how often does someone really travel to another location

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant, gibberish,out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:06 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: Perhaps during install asking if the system will be used as a server it should not have ifplugd? Well, it is there in the network config dialog if you run it in

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 11:02, Jason Straight wrote: I'm not saying drop it - but why (by default) configure mdk install for laptops? If that's the case why not have APM configured to suspend after 10 mins of inactivity? Or configure the system

Re: [Cooker] why have ifplugd default? (Was super-rant,gibberish, out-of-line, spontanious - sorry ;)

2003-06-05 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:02 pm, Jason Straight wrote: I wish it would just leave them alone - if I configure something my way I don't expect some program to go and take the liberty of changing it for what it thinks I want. I agree with this part 1% ! ! After trying Red Hat 8 and