Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk>]

"Brian Inglis" <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:07:48 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, "Bill
> Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote:
>
> >"Glen" <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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> >> I used to used to admin an AIX server... it did not crash
> >> once.  Z-e-r-o times.  And this thing was doing some real work too.
> >
> >This will probably be a shock to, well, nobody.  I use a Sun workstation
at
> >work.  Solaris something or other.  The only time I've ever crashed the
> >thing was running (here's the shocker) Internet Explorer for Unix.
>
> I would imagine some idiot probably installed it with root
> permission and without stability testing.

Nah it wouldn't have to. It's not unknown for XServers to lock
up the entire machine - because most of them have priveledged
access to various bits of hardware & memory by necessity. So
all that an X-app has to do is scramble the XServer enough for
it to toss it's cookies in a machine-trashing type way. Sure,
less likely to happen than when you have a set up like NT, but
it can. :)

Cheers,
Rupert