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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Fri Apr 15, 2016, 08:49 AM Apr 2016

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Ah, rm -rf Recursion Apr 2016 #1

What? No backups? Binkie The Clown Apr 2016 #2

This was a hoax SecularMotion Apr 2016 #3

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

1. Ah, rm -rf

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 08:53 AM

Apr 2016

UNIX: it's very user-friendly, but also very picky about who its friends are.

For bonus points: put a file in your friend's tmp directory named "-rf ~/*" You'll thank me later.

Binkie The Clown

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2. What? No backups?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 11:33 AM

Apr 2016

Even our family Minecraft server gets backed up every midnight for crying our loud! If this guy ran a company and can't restore last night's backups then he's not competent to be running a company.

SecularMotion

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3. This was a hoax

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 08:10 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/16/did-it-guy-really-delete-entire-company-with-wrong-bit-of-code/