Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!njin!fdurt1!wisdom!tronsbox!dfrancis From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1396@tronsbox.xei.com> Date: 15 Feb 91 16:05:10 GMT References: <1991Feb12.210950.19547@sugar.hackercorp.com> <18944@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS Lines: 19 In article <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |That's pretty clever. What sort of crystals do you use for terminators? |Do you need amethyst or jade, or will plain quartz do? Also, last time I |tried this I used the pyramid configuration and the apex machine lost |levitation during a power failure and we had a real system crash. I've |heard that the pentagram configuration works, but has the side effect of |turning all your files mode 0666. Sounds like a security hole to me. Your sysadmin is facing the wrong way. He has to sit facing the point of the pentagram, not the bottom. Besides, if you just route everything to the askantic (sp?) record, you won't even need hard drives... dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com ...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis GEnie: D.HEFFERNAN1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Using C will definitely cut your life expectancy by 10 years or more." --Carl Sassenrath, GURU'S GUIDE TO THE COMMODORE AMIGA #1