At 02:04 PM 3/11/00 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > there was a HUGE line for sgi, so we gave it a miss
>
>
>We were talking to an SGI guy at one stage - he looked like he'd
>seen a ghost. Turns out he was running most of the machines there
>as root (including the XFS demo box), and every time someone from
>the "unwashed masses" arrived to play "Oooh - SGI! Let's test its
>mettle and run... xscreensaver - yeah!" he had a blinking fit...
>
>"Why don't you logon as a non-superuser?"
>
>"Sorry, what? Oh, well, mainly because-- Eh? Dammit, you! No, you
>can't play rm -rf /* on this machine! Run away! Run away!"
I walked up to one of the SGI machines and someone had typed just that -
and not pressed enter... Called SGI-dude over, pointed and grinned - he
went white...:-)
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