OT: Things have changed.....MS unbelievable oversight....

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:27:11PM -0700,
Bill Campbell blabbed on about:
> 
> Perhaps shutdowns should only be done from the command line, not
> using a GUI?  Even then, that's not foolproof as I heard loud
> screams from my wife's office when I rebooted the Xenix machine
> as she was typing on a terminal.

*chuckle*  I hear ya...

> SCO made ONE BIG ONE on an OpenServer release where all directories had 777
> permissions.  I pointed this out (loudly) when I got the FCS disks, and, to
> their credit, they stopped production and fixed it immediately.

Just don't tell anyone on this list.  I mean, 777 is the mode of choice for
a -lot- of filePro users.  I've managed to tame the apopleptic seizures
down to just nervous twitching over the years when I run into this
phenomenon, though.

mark->
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