[SAGE-AU] Re: [Talk] Re: Network Simulater

Daniel Stone dstone at trinity.unimelb.edu.au
Thu Nov 14 19:14:32 EST 2002


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:47:38PM +1100, Sue Blake scrawled:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:17:29PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > How many have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL as kernel options? ;)
> > 
> > IIRC it's in Network Devices.
> 
> I administer four completely different types of unix daily, and
> occasionally meddle with things like VMS, OS/2, MacOs 7-9 and X, and
> some old systems still running DOS5/6. In all of these I've never
> seen that particular kernel option. Aha! Therefore I conclude that it
> must be a Microsoft thing. But I wouldn't expect everyone here to have
> broad enough experience to be able to work that out like I did :-)
> 
> It's easy to forget our diversity and neglect to mention the OS
> we're talking about, and I have done it myself a few times. No shame
> in that, a heartfelt "oops" and the incident is forogtten. Jeez, if we
> can't confess ignorance or fix a mistake and get over it in this forum,
> where _can_ we?

I didn't actually notice that it was crossposted to AUUG and SAGE:
"oops". Sorry about that, I just picked it up on LUV, hit g, and didn't
see the CC line flashing past (bursty lagged SSH, ugh).

Sorry about all that.
Daniel
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