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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: revisited, determining if anyone else is logged on
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.185653.14031@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:56:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.155330.6175@Princeton.EDU>, subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
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- - Since they always like to compare computers to life, let's take the analogy
- - of my desk drawer in my office and my white board. While I might not like
- - someone snooping in my desk drawer, and I might not find it too nice if
- - someone erased my equations on the white board, if someone wrote 'Kilroy
- - was here' on it, I certainly can't be sure that Kilroy did it.
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- Quite, but if somebody dropped a packet of heroin into your desk drawer
- (much quicker than searching it), then it would be your problem to explain
- that, and "Kilroy did it" would not be very useful, believe me.
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- Thomas
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