19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
3:08 a.m.
Gene Buckle wrote:
> Here I must heatedly disagree with you! Remember that I am a Linux fanatic
> but such a statement is blatantly incorrect. I can, by using Netscape,
> crash any Linux! Just hold down the Page Up or Page down on certain HTML
> documents and the system will lock up hard. Only a reset will clear it.
>
Do me a favor. Go ahead and perform this trick with
Netscape, then after
it freezes, try hitting ctrl-alt-backspace and see if X dies like it
should.
No response to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, also I'm unable to telent into the box
and any existing telent sessions freeze and eventually time out. The box
is also unpingable. I wasn't kidding about: "only a reset will clear it".
I could go into all the weird things with Netscape but I won't. I can make
it crash and burn in all sorts of unusual ways. I guess that's why I'm now
a test engineer in the networks lab. :-)
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