OT: Linux flavors...

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Thu Jul 8 09:31:38 PDT 2004


Chad McWilliams wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
>> Of Jay R. Ashworth
>> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:10 AM
>> To: filePro Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: OT: Linux flavors...
>> 
>> 
> 
> ...
> 
>> They mirror their update servers on a bunch of edu sites, and
>> we've installed, probably at least 5 or 6 machines from the
>> same set of disks; I can't see that it's serialized; it
>> doesnt' seem to have asked for an S/N, anyway.  And I suspect
>> you could rsync their master update server and point your
>> installs at your own, if you wanted to, though I haven't
>> looked into that very deeply as yet.
>> 
> 
> Cool.  I'm downloading the disk right now to do the ftp install in a
> few days (hopefully).  I'm really looking forward to trying it out. 
> I just hope Novel doesn't change a lot of policies there.
> 
>> Welcome to the list, BTW, Chad.  Sounds like you've got your
>> schidt together, dude.  We get a bit loud at times; don't let
>> us bother you.
>> 
> 
> Thanks, but I've been around for awhile.  Mostly just reading from
> time to time to keep up with things.  I'm so in and out of filePro
> programming, I get rusty, and then feel like I just started
> programming again compared to a bunch of you guys.  I remember
> (although he probably doesn't) when Brian (I believe this is the
> correct Brian) called me at a former employer of mine to ask about
> installation because he didn't know anything about filePro, and now I
> feel like a newbord baby compared to what he manages to come up with
> on this list.  I remember the good old days when I actually had time
> to sit and learn something, not just hack at it from time to time. :)

Wow, were you in Alabama? That probably was me. :)
Nice to remeet ya.

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