[NCLUG] a little factoid to brighten your day

Daniel Miles milesd at cs.colostate.edu
Fri Aug 15 09:36:45 MDT 2003


Ok, so maybe it wasn't RH but it *was* some form of *nix and that made
me happy. :)

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:59, Mike Loseke wrote:
> Thus spake listz at hate.cx:
> > 
> > iirc novell does that too.
> 
>  As does HP-UX. Maybe slightly different syntax/format but at a glance it
> looks the same.
> 
> > on Thu Aug 14 22:02, Daniel Miles disclosed: 
> > > About 4 days ago I took an early morning flight to Seattle and since it
> > > was early in the morning, they didn't have all their security stations
> > > up and running yet, a few were still turned off...
> > > 
> > > However, while I was waiting in line, they booted up another station
> > > (for those of you not familiar, it's a thing that scans your
> > > carry-on-luggage and has a metal detector that you walk through) and it
> > > looked like the standard RH boot process...
> > > 
> > > Starting this service....			[  OK  ]
> > > Starting that service....			[  OK  ]
> > > 
> > > You all know what I'm talking about.
> > > 
> > > Summary: I think the airport security stations at DIA (and possibly
> > > everywhere since they all look like the same equipment) run Linux.




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