Allegedly, on or about 30 June 2014, Rick Stevens sent:
You mean there is such a thing as a "graceful" failure?
Wow! Gotta
tell my boss about that!
Ungraceful failure: Instant hard crash with complete lock-up!
Graceful failure: You get an error message, first, but you're still
screwed.
;-p
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.