From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:13:55 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of chown semantics In-Reply-To: <20140115014323.GC15672@bitmover.com> References: <000f01cf117a$2ba9bbe0$50651bac@naleco.com> <20140115014323.GC15672@bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20140115021355.GB27115@mercury.ccil.org> Larry McVoy scripsit: > But with disk so bloody cheap and VMs working so bloody well, it's pretty > easy to spin up a VM and give it to some idiot who thinks they need root. ./configure or not, it's damned hard to install large amounts of software without root. You can do it, but it's hard, especially if some of it is really really expensive to build from source, since you're blocked from using the distro's own install tool. > You know what it reminds me of? Eunice on a VAX running VMS. It seems like > Unix but you're the only one there. Sort of lonely. I liked running who > and seeing a bunch of people logged in. Run finger $boss and see if he > read your email. Most people who use Unix today are the only ones there. Someone should really rewrite finger(1) to do something different. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come out. He wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us. He no show up. Wednesday he go to the ball game, and we fool him. We no show up. Thursday was a double-header. Nobody show up. Friday it rained all day. There was no ball game, so we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio. --Chicolini