Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:46:09 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wikipedia article [completely OT] Message-ID: <448ECFB1.3020104@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200606130645.CAA16535@quince.ifs.umich.edu> References: <200606130645.CAA16535@quince.ifs.umich.edu>
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Marcus Watts wrote: > Masscomp sold a machine >like this once. > > Masscomp did a lot of things. They produced a machine which required an engineer to come out twice a month to shift everything around on the backplane until it worked again; they instituted such user friendly features as a restore command which couldn't restore directories with "too many" entries; and in the interests of their users made the root directory world writeable so that "rm /*" by a prankish luser would actually work (luckily they didn't think of rm -r). I once filed something like 30 bug and security reports in one day. I heard nothing until Masscomp were taken over several years later, at which point is was my pleasure to inform the caller that the machine was in the skip. Happy days :-) --Alex
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