On Tue, 16 May 2023 15:34:40 +1200, Ian Stewart wrote:
Pleased to see that the Department of Digging Holes and their contingent of sub-contractors are still in business.
They said the contractors who came through a few years ago and laid all those main trunk tubes cut corners to get the whole of Hamilton done in two years. And didn’t properly document what they’d done (lines in the wrong place on maps). And didn’t join up those passive metal wires that are included in each tube segment to allow them to be detected electromagnetically from above ground. Etc etc.
Hmmm... An old desktop PC with 2 x Ethernets running OpenWrt would allow you to use a GUI for configuration and get a proof-of-concept device running and tested.
Sure. But I prefer text config files. That way I can try changes and do diffs to see what I did different, if something works in one situation but not in another. And easily backup/restore setups. And I can not only insert comments in scripts to explain what they are doing, I can also include commented-out sections with explanations of why they won’t work (in case I get the same bad idea again). Call it the “stream-of-consciousness” approach to system configuration, if you will. ;)