<div dir="auto">Thankfully, things change and we are no longer using toggle switches for input.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><rant mode> The attitude of "it worked like <failing memory of something "back in the day"> and now it's all newfangled crap written by young a-holes so I'm gonna gripe into my vodka and metamucil tonic" really does get under my skin. Not trying to jump on JD for his (sarcasm to my understanding) comment but it poked a nerve.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've managed to make a pretty decent living for my family off of code basically DONATED TO THE WORLD. Wow! Several thousand people spent their time to give me a freedom-friendly entire operating system that I can use for $0.00 and I can learn lots about how it works and people will actually give me money to make their machines do things they can't or don't have time or ability to do on their own.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can't understand why anyone would complain about being on the receiving end of this wonderful gift.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></rant></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">apologies to anyone offended but I am ecstatic Linux keeps changing. Sure things muck up sometimes but on the whole it's been 25 years of constant progress and improvement. Gripping about having to learn new things is about as useful as wishing for the next sunrise to never happen. We all know what 'not seeing tomorrow' means. That's when I will stop learning.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2017 2:11 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 02/12/2017 12:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
> "ip link" and "ip addr"<br>
<br>
Sounds like some sort of new fangled commands that we don't need.<br>
My dad used ifconfig so it is good enough for me.<br>
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