🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: Michael Dwyer wrote:
:> Get a real OS!!!  :)

: I can't, the office chose it!  They force me to work with this awful

Just as an aside, NT doesn't like 10/100 tulip cards for the first
couple of seconds after booting.  NT seems to think it can talk on
the network within seconds of turning on the card, and gets rather
petulant when it can't.  "Service Failed" and "Cannot find domain
admin thingy" are common.
Give the card a /few/ seconds -- you can hear the relay click on
to 100 mode -- and it all works fine.  A fix we discovered is to 
set them up on DHCP.  That kind of creates a nifty chicken/egg
problem that obviates this one.  They can't get an address to talk
on until the card has initialized.
But then I have seen a Large Company(tm) throw out a whole bunch
of these cards -- likely because of this behaviour.  Which is good
for the guy taking the trash out, I suppose, assuming he's got two
dozen servers and a 10/100 switch at home...  

But as Jack Handy says, when someone throws you out a plane, you might
as well go all floppy and stuff -- someone might catch you because
Hey!  Free dummy!

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Michael J. Dwyer                      I doubt, therefore I might be.
mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu       http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/
Computer Science Major                      Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP