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unix: year 19

2008 April 03 in computer programming by corprew | No comments

My first access to a unix machine was around 19 years ago, and I’m still amazined that sudo tcsh is a valid command on most systems.

I’m not saying that it isn’t convenient, mind you, but the fact that I can then execute emacs is also hilarious. Especially because sudo emacs is prohibited.

here is your system log, let me save you the trouble of auditing it by running a shell.

(I’m aware, incidentally, that it’s basically impossible to stop people from running a shell as long as they can run any naive-turing-complete interpreter or compiler. Maybe it’s time to only fight battles you can win.)

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