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J. Paul Reed <preed@bamboo.verinet.com> wrote:
: In csu.cs Tony Schreiner <schreine@cs.colostate.edu> wrote:

: Note that this is coming from a lowly PSD student, but I want to ask where
: are your admins? If a student would've tried playing those games over
: here, the admins would've killed the process and deleted the person's
: account before anyone could even raise a finger. 
: Where are your root-welding admins?!

The processes in question are lenghty, CPU-bound processes.  They were
not runaway processes in the form of a logic bomb or something of that
sort.  They were real processes that were properly performing what 
they were programmed to do. (The RSA/DES stuff at least.  I can't speak
for the src*/sleep processes.) 

Their legitimacy is apparently still in debate.  I don't think I would
call it a game, however...

The root-wielding sysadmin is a busy man who cannot possibly monitor
every single CS machine in the lab.  Instead, it would appear that
students take initiative and simply power-cycle the machines. (Ouch!)

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