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Re: I hate it when that happens...



On 2004-08-01, Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:56 pm, Silvan wrote:
>
> Another stupid luser trick.  Don't do a package install that restarts CUPS 
> while you're in the middle of printing a 200-page double-sided document, and 
> you're halfway through the second side.

One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on 
my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a 
temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the 
contents of my home directory are gone!

Note to self: before coffee, do nothing.

Anyway, I had the last night's backups, so there was nothing but the
cleaning of underware to care about. I was also writing something, but the
document was still open in LyX, so it was safe as long as LyX didn't crash
(and it almost never does).

-- 
Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/



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