Re: hi again ;)

[Richard <<nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

Alex

On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
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> Having said that, a lot of the machines we ran at demo day were running as
> root (not *my* laptop, I hasten to add!). It scared the crap out of me, I
> kept looking round to see if some clever dick had done an rm -rf / on us.
> ;)

Well, I had to build the machines myself and put them in
place myself without help. I was amazed I got that far. I couldn't
see a single thing wrong with running as root at Blackwell's. Only
one of the machines was plugged into the internet and that wasn't
important either. None of the machines were networked.

The way I see it if the punters can see a machine being
re-installed then so much the better. That way they can see how it
works :-)

Richard

Sheffield UK

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