Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 13:35:56 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Cc: mark@grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: Soldering irons [Was Re: looking for IP over printer...] Message-ID: <199505041235.NAA19687@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4460.799543596@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at May 3, 95 04:26:36 pm
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In reply to Gary Palmer who said > > In message <199505032110.XAA08757@grumble.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: > >The three most dangerous things in a computer centre: > > >1) A hacker with a soldering iron, > >2) the mainframe technician with a patch, > >3) and a user with a Good Idea (tm). > > You missed one : > > 4) Someone looking for a socket to plug their widget into and finding they > have to unplug one of those funny whirring boxes. You should work in an engineering dept. full of windows weenies. I've actually had one idiot unplug my box to plug a kettle in because I wasn't around so obviously didn't need my machine to be running! In many ways I'm glad I'm leaving.... -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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