Shawn Bayern wrote:
This thread reminds me of something I did the other day. In a fit of
> wonderful genius, I decided to run something like 'cat dev/console', which
> of course completely disabled my keyboard. Nothing works when you do
> that, not even a switch to a virtual console.
>
> The mouse, however, was fine. So I su'd from another window (since I
> obviously ran the idiotic command as root) and killed the 'cat' process --
> ALL just with the mouse, by cutting and pasting individual keystrokes from
> my open windows.
>
An electronic version of the magazine ransom note?
:)
-Nick
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