backspace, delete woes
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Mon Aug 28 23:43:58 UTC 2006
On 28Aug2006 10:21, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
| > | eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; erase2 = ^H; intr = ^C; kill = ^U;
| >
| > Hmm, erase2! New lore! Thanks, I could do with that on several machines.
|
| Not all that new. The greeting:
| > Last login: Mon Aug 21 12:56:28 2006 from 24-119-255-8.cpe
| > Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
| > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
| > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE (WEB43A) #0: Wed Jul 25 16:05:53 CDT 2001
| >
| > Welcome to FreeBSD!
Ah. I'm still slumming it in Linux land. Does FreeBSD have pf? And
remind me - FreeBSD is the lots-of-apps/desktop-ish one, NetBSD is the
ultraportable and OpenBSD is the ultra secure one, yes? I use OpenBSD
for a firewall but haven't gone for the FreeBSD stuff yet.
| > You try and make the place as secure as you can, but you don't reckon
| > with the kind of people who try and break into an explosives factory
| > with an oxy-acetylene torch.
|
| Whence this? Love it.
| Of course, the really dangerous ones are the ones that can do it.
A RISKS digest I think, but I cannot find the cite. I do recall a story
somewhere about some army guys breaking into a fireworks factory with
a torch, and that it was known they were army guys because there was a
gate they'd ignored nearby. I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuurwerkramp
but it doesn't match my recollection. This page:
http://www.sandlingfireworks.co.uk/index.html
(follow the "NEWS" link) has it:
26/9/00
Dim witted thieves break into Sandling Fireworks factory using a
welding torch!!!!! Really!!!! Amazingly nothing caught fire and they
lived to tell the tale - to the police. 95% of the fireworks stolen
have now been recovered by police. You have heard the expression "as
thick as thieves", well they don't come much thicker than this! Doh!
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. - Hume
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