Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com>]

"Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk> wrote in
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> > > IE crashed your UNIX box ? Whoa...
> >
> > Proving that anything from Microsoft has unlimited capabilities.
> > I didn't know such a thing existed, but if it does it is probably
> > designed to cause as much trouble as possible.
>
> My guess is that it managed to find a way to bust up the XServer
> so bad that the XServer barfed on some priveledged address-space.

I suspect you're correct.  At my previous job, we managed to do this with an
older version of SUN-OS and the X-Server.  But then, we were actually
hacking the X-Server, so we expected some trouble.

In the IE case, the machine froze up entirely.  Couldn't even access it
remotely.  The only thing that DID work was the L1-A entrance to BIOS for a
reboot.

    - Bill