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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 18:33:57 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 03:09:03 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Sysadmin Rule #5: "Cleverness" is directly proportional to "fragility."
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 03:30:33 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
I'm sorry.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 02:15:07 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
I'm fine with inexpensive, but I detest cheap.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 02:24:45 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Why is there no safeguard against shooting yourself in the foot like this? Well, Unix feels that anyone dumb enough to do this doesn't deserve to be its friend. Various people keep trying to put Unix in therapy for this type of antisocial behavior, but it just isn't interested.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 21:15:41 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
No software is innocent. But no single piece of software has committed all crimes -- except for Emacs, of course.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 20:14:09 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Network administrators of all backgrounds share one underlying, overwhelming desire. It doesn’t matter if you manage a network with 400 separate manufacturing plants connected by a global MPLS mesh or if you’re responsible for three computers and an elderly printer. Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for just one thing: We want our users to shut up.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 10:22:04 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
For those readers too young to remember: Windows 95 had no security system.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 20:17:03 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Most of this nonexportable software is available from non-US sources and can be downloaded anywhere in the world. Meanwhile, ex-KGB cryptographers without these regulations will happily provide strong crypto to anyone at low, low rates. Mind you, they charge extra for crypto without obvious backdoors.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 11:01:39 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
The vital thing here is to save Bill's email, so that when he complains about the error I can show him it's his own fault.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 11:01:30 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
I'm sorry.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 10:59:53 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Remove /dev/null from a host and a surprising number of programs crash and burn. Experienced sysadmins understand that most software requires an uninterruptible supply of nothing.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 21:23:23 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Real Unix ships with ifconfig. And ed.
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MWL Book Quote Bot (quotebot@io.mwl.io)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 15:17:32 JST MWL Book Quote Bot
Note that I used "sense of privacy" and not actual "privacy."