CentOS - Jul 2014 - TOT - Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

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This is...weird.

Not sure why this suddenly showed, a week later, nor why it showed to me,
on my webmail/squirrelmail/ensignia that I use at work for this account,
as html/an attachment.

      mark

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> On 07/10/2014 12:47 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Always Learning wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:39 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>          mark "we won't talk about the month I
punch Addressograph
>>>>> plates...."
>>>> Addressograph plates?  That is really ancient !  but they were
>>>> incredible useful in those days.
>>>>
>>> Yeah... but did you ever do it, or see it done? Forget the old
manual
>>> Underwood, this required actual *force* hitting the keys (yes, the
>>> machine was electric). No speed, either - the actuator arms had to
hit
>>> the
>>> metal. WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM
>>
>> But the Linotype melted the lead and you pressed which key you wanted
>> the lead to flow into.  Kind of.  It was cool to see that bar of lead
>> slowly get lowered into the melting pot and finally out the other side
>> came the lead on steel printing plate.  Though one I saw only made rows
>> of text that then had to be lined up on the steel plate.  I guess it
was
>> for allowing inclusion of pictures and such.
>>
>> Ah how xerography changed things.
>>
>> And that is again the point.  We do things one way because with a big
>> enough hammer we can get it to work.  Then new ways and new goals come
>> along and the old stuff heads off for the big melting pot in the
>> backyard.
>
> But with a good hammer, you can force the lead into the new plates without
> melting....
>
>         mark (who's taken at least part of this offlist)
>
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