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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 25, 2008 1:48 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
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And at least one clueless guy will call the police because he still thinks he's under attack.

He who calls the police might be good friends with the Tuttle (Oklahoma) City Manager. ;)

I once received a phone call from a woman who was frantic because her computer had alerted her (via a popup dialog box) that she was about to view a web page over a secure (SSL) connection. Of course, those skilled enough to view kernel messages via dmesg(1) are perhaps a little more well-informed than these poor souls...


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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 25, 2008 16:43 UTC (Thu) by amikins (guest, #451) [Link]

Nowadays a lot of desktop environments and distros have easy-to-use ways of accessing those logs, enabling less clued individuals to see Scary Things.

It's like looking at the code in the Matrix. Funny stuff, if you're in the room with the uninformed user at the time.


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