From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner)
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:53:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494CB5B-D54F-4FB5-AE4E-0624C2006A30@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64876D43-44BD-465F-A003-7783B7C1A23F@orthanc.ca>
I, of course, liked the warning from dump(1): "Are you sure you know what you are doing?"
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] hello, world
> Date: December 26, 2011 4:20:38 PM EST
> To: Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>
> Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org, Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org>
>
>
> On 2011-12-26, at 13:11 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question
>> though: what command would "bring the system down"?
>
> 'kill -1 1' will bring terror to anyone who had the misfortune of dealing with Xenix.
>
> I think the writer is getting at how UNIX bypassed the 'i ask you three times' dance.
>
> --lyndon
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-26 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 13:10 Norman Wilson
2011-12-26 21:11 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-26 21:15 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-26 21:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-26 21:53 ` Armando Stettner [this message]
2011-12-26 22:13 ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-26 21:28 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-27 1:08 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-26 21:28 ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-28 0:13 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-28 0:20 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-28 7:34 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-28 10:16 ` Ori Idan
2011-12-27 6:11 ` Adam
2012-01-04 3:37 ` Cyrille Lefevre
[not found] ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.1112271711290.603@dave.horsfall.org>
2011-12-27 18:01 ` Tim Newsham
2011-12-28 0:53 ` Corey Lindsly
2011-12-28 10:54 ` asbesto
2011-12-28 18:32 ` John Cowan
[not found] <mailman.1.1325037601.24307.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2011-12-28 20:56 ` David Barto
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