On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:57, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
> >I don't know about this particular university but students tend to do
> >stupid things given half a chance. And some of them are quite
> >knowledgeable regarding networks and those things called computers. :)
> >
> >
> A simple sample of how a student can do a stupid thing and annoy the IT
> personnel and half of the other users:
>
> The teacher , during the Operating Systems class , mentions that most
> OSs dont limit the allocation of memory and
> that with a excessive use of memory allocation without freeing , you
> could crash any machine.
> Student goes out of class , logs in the main machine used by everyone in
> the department , and compiles a simple
> while(1) { malloc } program.... He runs it once.. Machine goes offline..
> Probably thinking it was just a coincidence ,
> he runs it again... And a third time ... No wonder he got his account
> suspended for 1 month ;)
>
> So , yes.. Students will do something stupid if they have the chance
> (and trust me... there's lots of chances for stupid things)
Very funny and excellent example of what I was saying. :D
And just imagine what the A students are doing...... :)
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