One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

[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 address. The problem was that 
windows (w2k) will allow you to change your ip address once but if you 
try it again it prompts for a reboot.... So in short each time I had to 
change my IP so I could connect to each radios subnet... I had to 
reboot.... grrrr.

Now if I had linux on the laptop the job would have taken considerably 
less time because I wouldn't have had to reboot once... viv la 
revolution.... Linux is a better tool for admin than window imo.

-- 
James McDonald
Singleton Australia

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61+ 0428 320 219

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