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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Soldering irons [Was Re: looking for IP over printer...]
To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 13:35:56 +0100 (BST)
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In reply to Gary Palmer who said
> 
> In message <199505032110.XAA08757@grumble.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes:
> >The three most dangerous things in a computer centre:
> 
> >1) A hacker with a soldering iron,
> >2) the mainframe technician with a patch,
> >3) and a user with a Good Idea (tm).
> 
> You missed one :
> 
> 4) Someone looking for a socket to plug their widget into and finding they
>    have to unplug one of those funny whirring boxes.

You should work in an engineering dept. full of windows weenies.
I've actually had one idiot unplug my box to plug a kettle in
because I wasn't around so obviously didn't need my machine to be
running!

In many ways I'm glad I'm leaving....

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
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