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From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ATT Hardware
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 16:14:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp-XcnX+Vbhw0__sp=byKbAA11+ZD=krCsYeFMbp-1GXtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180701021724.GA99215@eureka.lemis.com>

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Puns aside, anyone who didn't consider pulling the plug was probably not
someone who should be bringing the system down.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
wrote:

> On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at  7:15:07 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> > Ron Natalie:
> >
> >   My favorite 3B2ism was that the power switch was soft (uncommon then,
> not so
> >   much now).   I seem to recall that if the logged in user wasn't in a
> >   particular group, pushing the power button was a no-op.   You didn't
> have
> >   sufficient privs to operate the power.
> >
> > ====
> >
> > Surely you mean the current user didn't have sufficent power.
>
> Or was experiencing too much resistance?
>
> Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-01 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-30 11:15 Norman Wilson
2018-07-01  2:17 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-01 20:14   ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2018-07-02  0:20     ` William Corcoran
2018-07-02  0:55       ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-02  3:59         ` William Corcoran
2018-07-02 10:13       ` Kevin Bowling
2018-07-03  1:02     ` Dave Horsfall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-29 13:16 ron
2018-06-29 14:55 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-29 15:07   ` Clem Cole
2018-06-29 16:31   ` ron
2018-06-29 17:51     ` Seth J. Morabito
2018-06-29 15:26 ` Seth J. Morabito
2018-06-29 16:29   ` ron
2018-06-29 18:48 ` Perry E. Metzger

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