Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:13:43 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <3080.1112634823@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:38:33 BST." <1112632713.71324.52.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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In message <1112632713.71324.52.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes: >Only the most anti-gun people would say that the safety catch should >consist of a codeword only known by the guy who designed the gun and >four or five other people who work at the factory. But you have to admit that would reduce gun-violence if it was true, right ? :-) >We're not talking about curb-side child-height baskets. We're talking >about people who should know what they are doing (they have root, after >all), entering commands which they expect to work... Sorry, I disagree. This was true when root was Ken, Dennis and Brian. Today root is Tom, Dick and Harry and they need sensible padding. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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