Amazing how political these things don’t have to be. When I was at university someone logged into the Sun workstation I was on to run a remote X session. Whate

Amazing how political these things don’t have to be. When I was at university someone logged into the Sun workstation I was on to run a remote X session. Whatever they were doing kept puking all over the framebuffer console in the middle of my Cadence session. I send an actual polite email asking them to stop as it was making it difficult for me to draw gates. Got no reply. Two days later I got hauled in front of my tutor, accused of hacking and being rude to the guy. I suspect I was just logged into the X session on the box and the person I complained about was doing what was supposed to have gone on. I defended this religiously but had to deal with a written warning from the university anyway and the tutor actively tried to compromise my course afterwards. That’s the day I learned about politics. And unix. Digging into the forensics and causality of this led to a long career as a sysadmin and programmer and not designing chips. And not a decade of poor pay or unemployment like my course peers. So no regrets.