Re: Important word
Or even the much more generic "Authorised to make configuration changes", so they made them.
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On a true 1:1 leased line you have the option to get fully symmetric bandwidth as well, so 1Gig down and 1Gig up. If this was a head office and satellite offices/remote works connect to it that makes a whole WORLD of difference. In comparison a true FTTP consumer line will be something in the order of 1Gbps down and 100Mbps up.
This bring back memories, but of time flipping the other way.
Back in the Day was part of a team administering a Novell Netware 4.x network - pre NTP days, so we had one of these https://web.archive.org/web/20010411015625/http://www.galsys.co.uk/galdata1.htm keeping time set on the Master Netware replica from the radio signal in Rugby. One day it picked up some kind of erroneous transmission and set the network time forward to the year 2032 or something similar. After resetting it and correcting the network time we had the dreaded "Synthetic network time" on the eDirectory replicas as we were stuck with future dated timestamps until we ran the command to declare a new "epoch".
It was such a joy once NTP arrived with no single server source issues ready to blow things up.
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Reminds me of a similar incident back in 2003 where the startup tune for a team leader's Windows PC was changed to "Are you Ready for Love" by Elton John. Not realising that the windows startup tune at the time actually paused windows starting up. As the team leader in question had his laptop speaker muted it took some time for him to work out why his PC was taking > 3 minutes to log in!