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- From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
- Subject: Re: First Post
- References: <15tsluINNca6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <1992Aug15.031932.12426@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <cSc-CN_@engin.umich.edu>
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- Organization: {not speaking for the} University of Illinois at Urbana
- Approved: by 66 of 79-1/2 leading cowherds
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:27:35 GMT
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- positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas) writes:
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- > ObHackQuestion: I'm new to UNIX and X-Windows (been hacking micros for a long
- > time now). Fairly recently I was sitting at a Sparc running X, doing some work,
- > when a message window popped up on my screen. I sure didn't cause it.
- > Someone started talking to me through it... I looked all over the computer
- > lab, nothing but innocent faces. I hadn't done an xhost +, but just to be
- > safe I did xhost - about a zillion times... I also did several whos and
- > a few rmproc -i's, nothing unusual showed up. Then the guy made a naked
- > GIF pop up on my screen, in the middle of this crowded computer lab... I
- > switched off, fast. I was a little pissed, but mainly drooling with envy.
- > How did the guy do it, and how can *I* do it? :)
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- rsh
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- Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
- I speak for myself, and not for the State or University of Illinois.
- "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." -- Edward R. Murrow
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