On September 1993 plus 3572 days James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> 030612 Vox wrote: >> > On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: >> > rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* >> > Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... >> > it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) >> >> i make it a strict rule before any command of the form 'rm -rf *' >> first to do 'd', then to do 'pwd', then to sit >= 10 sec >> with my arms folded behind my back repeating the mantra: >> "that's where i am, that's what i want to remove". >> >> even so, i'm sure that one day ... > > > Yep, > > Vox, it's most likely to happen the day a 2 year old madly banging on > a keyboard just so happens to hit the keyboard in that certain order and > ..... pooof it kept going till it locked itself up. I know ... my son > did.
My nephew used to do that to my mom's computer about 3 times a month...either lock the box up completely lock the box up or just kill her evolution...mom got very scared the first time he locked it up...she hadn't managed a lockup in 3 years (damn, I hate losing that kind of uptime) :) Now (he's 3.3yo), he loves playing in that computer when he visits my parents...I think I'll have to find him some edutainment stuff :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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