Murdering Classic machines (was: Re: Power Cords (Was: RE: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)"))

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 4 14:23:46 2002

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > > It will work better now that the weather's more pleasant, because I'll
> > > be able to toss 'em in the dumpster and bring only the PSU in the
> > > house.
> >
> > Can someone PLEASE turn down Dick's flame control? Or at least send
> > him a SIGHUP?
>
> SIGTERM might work better, since SIGHUP is often used as a restart signal
> in modern software. SIGSTOP also might work temporarily, but someone is
> bound to come along and issue a SIGCONT or SIGKILL.

There's always the power switch.

(Much more effective.)

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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