[PLUG] Baby killing Linux

Matt Chorman matt at legalizefreedom.org
Thu Jun 19 13:52:01 UTC 2003


What do the logs say? Specifically bashrc - does it record long enough to show 
her particular keystrokes?

While doing help desk, I always encountered at least one "anti-computer" 
person: i.e. she had negative computer energy, or something. She fried a half 
dozen motherboards. Her computer locked up more frequently than anyone elses 
by 10 to 1. I gave her MY system, which had been rock solid - sure enough, 
within a day, it had locked up 3 times. She would also seem to burn out a ton 
of lights (when turned on by her) and she claimed that street lights would 
turn off whenever she came near.

Perhaps your daughter has this "negative computer energy"?? Scary! Lock the 
server room, quick!!! hahah!

M
On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:23 pm, Michael Montagne wrote:
> This is a mystery.  My two year old can sit down and completely lock up
> my Linux box with a few keystrokes.  I'm assured she is only there for a
> minute and this is probably true.  When I got home, there was an xterm
> up with the string "  n   " on it.  Everything else was locked up.  No
> keyboard, no mouse, no sshing in from a different machine, nothing.
> Only option was a reboot.  Not good after my preaching about power,
> reliability, and robustness.
>
> So, what did she do?  If you had a few seconds to completely disable a
> Linux system how would you do it?  Probably only with keystrokes and
> not lgged in as root.  This has happened several times.





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