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Re: network setup



On Wednesday 14 December 2016 09:13:49 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
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> > Eh? How does calling something by the string "wlx00c0ca364bd2" instead
> > of "wlan0" make it less accessible?
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> Thank you! You just highlighted why I'm not staying for long in that
> discussion. I'm out.


This is a) incomprehensible and b) unnecessary.  If you want out, just drop 
out.  There is no need to imply that you are in some way forced out by 
someone else's reprehensible behaviour.  Though the question to which you 
object seems fine to me.  

The answer to your question, David, is that for some of us that string is a) 
unreadable and b) totally unmemorable (since it is unreadable in the first 
place).  A non-changing name is obviously (well, it is obvious to me) a good 
idea - but I would want one that I had some hope of both reading and 
remembering.  This thread has told me how to achieve that!!  Great!

Lisi


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