a kute little story
my friend andy came over the other day and told me a rather nice little kde related story that i thought i'd pass on:
a client of his has some linux servers that are sitting in a local colo centre. the isp running the colo messed up some internal routing and half his servers could no longer talk to the other half inside the colo (though everything was visible and reachable from the outside).
his client tried with great frustration to get the isp to fix things but they couldn't figure it out. so the guy figured that if just changed the ip addresses on the system that couldn't talk to the other system to be on the same internal subnet, things should magically fix themselves. sounds logical enough. only the guy had never touched linux himself before; he was a windows guy and was apparently unaware of the nice gui's we have these days.
knowing that the client was an otherwise windows-only shop, andy had the foresight to install kubuntu on the servers complete with kde available should it ever be needed. so when the client walked into the colo and flipped on a monitor connected to his server, he saw a nice kdm screen. he logged in and changed the ip address using the guidance tool that comes with kubuntu.
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