Word: unix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael Burner, UNIX system manager, said yesterday they had previously started researching possible remedies to the current system's shortcomings...
...know that what I'm learning in CS50 can be applied so that I can get a job," says Yuval Segal '97, hopes to put his skills to use over the summer. "I went into OCS to look for positions and they all wanted programmers who knew C and UNIX and I thought 'cool, that's what I know...
...must learn new languages (like UNIX), new forms of address (like president whitehouse.gov and new ways of expressing feeling (like those ubiquitous sideways smiley faces), and you must master a whole set of rules for how to behave, called netiquette. Rule No. 1: Don't ask dumb questions. In fact, don't ask any questions at all before you've read the FAQ (frequently asked questions) files. Otherwise you risk annoying a few hundred thousand people who may either yell at you (IN ALL CAPS!) or, worse still, ignore...
...Because UNIX is a user-shared system, each user account is bestowed certain measure of security. For example, when your account was first created (by the system administrator), your home directory was made accessible to you and you alone. No one else could peek at what files you had or what was in those files...
...system, and this someone is the system administrator. He or she can log on as the legitimate super-user and from there create or destroy anything on the file system (initializing or deleting a user account). In fact, he or she can recreate or destroy the entire UNIX system...