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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