On 9 Mar 2005, at 21:57, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
Scot L. Harris wrote:
I don't know about this particular university but students tend to doA simple sample of how a student can do a stupid thing and annoy the IT personnel and half of the other users:
stupid things given half a chance. And some of them are quite
knowledgeable regarding networks and those things called computers. :)
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)
That's the reason quotas exist in first place... The admin should have placed restrictions on resource usage.
