I managed to gum up frank, the HP mainframe at MTSU, one time during my time there, with a while (true) fork() C++ program. It required the mainframe to reboot to get it out of trouble, and I got a severe talking to by our CS department lab director. I was being stupid in my young age. ;)
" 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > First UNIX admin job, logged into server thinking it was the local desktop > and rebooted it. Lots of egg on the face and lots of wasted end user > hours. > > I took drastic action to triple verify where I was logged in after that. > Sometimes being a bit OCD is learned by not being OCD enough. > > I had also shut down mainframes before that with similar results (a few > times on purpose, a couple of times accidently when working as a systems > programmer in a large IBM shop). Mainframes had 2000 logged in (about 8000 > users in the directory that could log in) and Unix machine only had about > 200 users (it was where their home directories were located over NFS). > > Never really got into trouble for it, but I flogged myself more than any > boss ever would over the issue. ... such is life. We go on. Company > survived. > > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Allen Minix <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:23:47 AM UTC-5, Howard wrote: >>> >>> >>> Okay, I'm looking on the wrong server. Move along, these are not the >>> droids you are looking for. >>> >>> Howard >>> >> >> If I had a nickel for every time I've done that... >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > ><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " > - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
