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

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 15:55

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In <Anders.Sundin-0408950303330001@aps.orgk2.lth.se> Anders.Sundin@orgk2.lth.se (Anders Sundin) writes:

>In article <danpop.807489537@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>>Bullshit.  The large companies using Mac's do have sysadmins, exactly like
>>the large companies using Unix.
>
>Yes, I agree with that.
>
>>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.
>
>Right, Joe Unix User never fills the HD to the last byte, he never

This is what disk quotas are for, right?

>makes a backup of his personal data on top of some other extremly
>valuable data, 

This has nothing to do with the integrity of the system.  Joe User is
shooting himself in the foot, not killing the system.

>he never makes the computer panic by throwing enormous
>jobs at it, 

Huh?  Never seen this.  Any well implemented Unix system protects itself
against this kind of "aggressions".  Our batch servers have uptimes 
measured in months.

>and he never sets up forwarded mail loops. 

Again, not a threat to the system.  If the mail delivery system is
properly configured (i.e. using a central mail server) this kind of
mistake is easily detected.

Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch 
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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