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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386?????
Date: 22 Aug 93 19:35:04
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: newton@cleese.apana.org.au's message of 21 Aug 1993 23:43:30 +0930
In article <255air$1c4@cleese.apana.org.au> newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes:
>Why put your system into
>a state in which it can be accidentally rebooted if you lean on the
>keyboard in the wrong way?
actually, from my point of view, i see it as:
why put your system into a state where some weenie can walk
up to it and reboot it to try to get to a DOS prompt, etc.
*chuckle* stupid officemates could do stupid things, and
i'd hate to think about "public access"...
chris
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.