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Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

#1274
From: Orc
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 20:21
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In article <40gqr9$m3v@info1.sdrc.com>,
Shane Kuntz <crkuntz@sgcpu2.sdrc.com> wrote:
>In article <405d78$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com>, christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:
>|> In article <danpop.807489537@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>|> 
>|> |> Bullshit.  The large companies using Mac's do have sysadmins, exactly like
>|> |> the large companies using Unix.  The life of the Mac sysadmin is made
>|> |> considerably harder by the fact that Joe Mac User can screw his machine.
>|> |> Joe Unix User can't.
>
>Yeah.. I've never had a unix user do a rm -r *  on the entire / directory. ;)

   I've seen it happen.  I've done it, as a matter of fact.

   The torrent of error messages alerted me to my misstep and I was
able to kill the silly thing before it reached my home directory.
(The moral of the story is, of course, that even though a Unix user
can do some incredibly stupid things, it's a lot harder for them
to screw over the entire system while they're doing it.)

                 ____
   david parsons \bi/ And if I could figure out why Pell is locking up every
                  \/                            28 hours, I'd be a happy man.
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From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 20:21:42 GMT
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