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		bryanrasmussen 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." this reminds me when I was at a course from a big software company in the late 90s, and we had problems setting up the system at first because some executive in Germany had named his machine localhost.

MortyWaves 7 months ago [–]

How was that mess ever fixed?

bryanrasmussen 7 months ago | [–]

I guess they contacted the executive and had them change the name?

on edit: I do remember we had to come back to the course the next day, so it took a day to get it fixed.

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