Re: [NTLK] root on OSX

From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 20:44:41 PDT


In a previous message, Norman Palardy typed vigorously:

>> I gather this is a "Bad Thing"? For the benefit of us non-Unix heads,
>> what exactly does this do? My guess is that it does something really
>> nasty to your hard drive.........
>
>LOL .... think almost like format c:\

Or placing a manual degausser on top of a running hard drive. Heh.

g.

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