From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ... From: Charles Forsyth Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:43:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <43CFD24B.5010007@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e06ba17a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>when is a .so not a .so? when it's a ld script of course! >>yup, /lib/libc.so on my fc4 box is a ..... script. curiously, i was just installing fc4 on a machine today. following an i/o error on a few blocks of a hard drive containing an ext3, that had emptied /usr/etc to the confusion of all, subsequent use of redhat-something's fsck destroyed the whole file system rather instantly, so i thought it might be time for an upgrade. fc4's installation said there was an i/o error on installation, that was ``a serious problem'', it could not continue, OK? as usual my ``that's not OK, actually'' met with a blank face, and OK rebooted the system. i think it's all a hint to replace the drive. clearly, from ron's message, i'm in for a good time! we'll know computing has cracked it when that sort of thing is a question on ``who wants to be a millionaire?''. all helps to keep those synapses active.