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I love this story and find it refreshing each time I read it. That said, has anyone ever looked into if it's real or apocryphal? I'd be curious to know.
by ghayes 8y ago
I love this story and find it refreshing each time I read it. That said, has anyone ever looked into if it's real or apocryphal? I'd be curious to know.
- poizan42 8y agoWell, Trey Harris at least claims that it really happened ( but he may have taken liberty with some details): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
- lb1lf 8y agoI don't know whether the original story was -ahem- embellished a bit or not, but I do know that after forwarding this to a sysadmin friend of mine running a host of Sun boxes at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, he got somewhat obsessed with replicating this bug - turned out on his hardware du jour the range was some 1100km (700 miles.)
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