<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Boris Borisov" <bugyatl@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:59:58 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] OT: rant<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Post in <a href="http://linuxtoday.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://linuxtoday.org">linuxtoday.org</a>:<br><br><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;">"</span><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;">How to configure a static IP address on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7"<br><br></span></div><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;">really? <br></span><div><span size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, really. Everyone is born knowing nothing. Look at my history of posts in ALE since maybe 95? </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I googled the above about Ubuntu maybe < 2009. "click the network config thingy and set that for static". I did that, but if I reset my switch which caused a link loss then DHCP would start. This has happened on Raspian and other distros that use NM. My disdain for NM grew.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>