Re: Now We Are Rollin'

["Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> writes:

  pm> - however, my dumbest stunt came from an su to root:

  pm> rm -fr /bin /usr
  pm> instead of
  pm> rm -fr bin usr

  pm> ...that one's tough to beat on the scale of dumbness.  Or on the
  pm> scale of "negative system impact", as they say.

Heh.  The only time I ever screwed up a UNIX box (and I've been using
UNIX for a _LONG_ time), it was actually because of Linux.

Back in 1993 when I first started using Linux I used to get Slackware
etc. distros by downloading them at work and writing them to a bunch of
floppies to take home and load on my Intel box.  I had a SPARC running
SunOS 4.1.x at work then.

Of course, to write the image to the floppy from a SunOS box you'd use
dd to write to /dev/fd0.  Well, one time I mistyped that as /dev/hd0
instead.  My system didn't like that too much _AT ALL_.  :-/ :).

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