Recreational Computing policies, guidelines, etc.

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <VTURNER.90Dec5171956 at wilma.nmsu.EDU> vturner at nmsu.EDU (Vaughan
Turner) asks about a campus wide policy on recreational computing.

I was a sysadmin at a large university computing center for five years.
Game playing was restricted to only times when the load was low, and a
daemon would get you if you didn't respect this policy.  

Recreational programming, however, was permitted and encouraged, so long
as it didn't interfere with people's classwork.  In practice, there were
only two cases of this: now and then someone or other would inevitably
write a program that forked forever or else stepped backwords in memory a
page at a time, trashing the VM system.  This was considered harmful, and
the perpetrator was told to cut it out.

Don't discourage recreational programming -- learning is what
a university is all about.

--tom
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