Re: [OT] Re: fork bomb:the come back

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:24:54 -0500

In message <QsOF1LG00Uw70MI5g0@andrew.cmu.edu>, James R Bruce writes:
+-----
| Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 28-Dec-99 Re: fork
| bomb:the come back by Stephen Frost@mail.snowm
| > There was a Coke machine at a university somewhere that would
| tell you
| > how many cans and whatnot were left at one point or another, I seem to
| recall.
| > Yes, over the internet (Or that may have been arpanet, not sure. :) ).
|
| That would be Carnegie Mellon's CS department coke machine. Sadly, it
| has been disconnected. There is a coffee machine online now however:
+--->8

They replaced the Coke machine during the remodeling of the CS lounge, and
the new one isn't quite as "hacker-friendly" so it's not online yet.
Various CS grad students are working on it, though, and hope to have it back
online soonish.

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