On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mark Wieder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andre- > > Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 2:27:19 PM, you wrote: > > > Let me tell you that I once did something like that by accident on my own > > test server. I had a recursive process that started spawning itself and > > would not quit... in the end I had to reboot the damn vps. Thats why > those > > limits are important > > Awww... I've brought down bigger systems than that. Next time we sit > down over a beer I'll tell you about the time I found out what the > nohup command does... > While we're bringing up old "war stories" and measuring lengths... I have a friend who works for Boeing. Just to give a little physics background, satellites are not in perfect orbit; they are continuously falling to the Earth and need course correcting every so often. This one particular satellite used a particular program to course correct and the thrust units were measured in thousands (2000, 3000, etc). A new hire who was working late got the call for a course correct went to the machine, typed in the appropriate thrust amount and which rockets and hit enter. Was prompted "are you sure?", hit yes, and bye-bye satellite. Un-beknowst to the new guy, the program implicitly did the multiplication of units for him (he was supposed to enter 2, 3, ...). Nothing like firing a few hundred million dollars out into space your first week on the job, eh? ;-) Jeff M. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
