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Great story. The advice about Slow is Fast in such situations is spot on. Reminds me of a Unix incident at an automobile component manufacturer's plant. They
by vram22 12y ago
Great story.
The advice about Slow is Fast in such situations is spot on.
Reminds me of a Unix incident at an automobile component manufacturer's plant. They had a multi-user Unix box supplied by the company I worked for at the time - a large Unix hardware and software vendor. A colleague and I had gone there for some system maintenance. In order to do something, my colleague, before I could stop him, gave the command "init 0" on the root console. ("init 0" shuts the system down without confirmation, for those who don't know, if run as superuser.) Within seconds the phone in the computer room was ringing madly, with calls from different intercoms on the shop floor, inventory store, etc. He had to apologize to many of them before they calmed down ...