Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread jghasler
stephen farrell writes: > My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The > X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable > of buggering the whole system. > Shouldn't happen, however... The X server also has I/O privileges to the video card. If

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread stephen farrell
W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For exampl

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > > > paging through a document that has alot of

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > > paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If > > you do it "too fast", i

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If > you do it "too fast", it will crash

was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-06 Thread James D. Freels
There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it "too fast", it will crash your system. There are other ways to do it also, s