All these tails of woe. Someday someone will invent 'undelete'.
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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
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I'd be tempted to offer to help, there's almost nothing that can't be recovered from a working hard disk, even after it has been deleted. Just a question of how much to charge...His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostI'd be tempted to offer to help, there's almost nothing that can't be recovered from a working hard disk, even after it has been deleted. Just a question of how much to charge...Comment
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Originally posted by stek View PostMost likely though as it was a VM the 'hard disk' would be dotted about on the underlying RAID6 on the SAN....His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostSome have seen this as evidence that he's just trolling; but we've all done something like that (though hopefully less catastrophically), so maybe not
Reminds me of the first week of my first 'real' job as apprentice. Inquisitive me, knowing a bit about computers, was left to have a play with the office PC. Later that day their IT help desk fell about laughing as I explained how it had stopped working after running something called "FDISK".
Couple of tricks that would have saved the day though:
Code:~$ cat doh #! /bin/bash set -u rm "${foo}/${bar}" ~$ ./doh ./doh: line 3: foo: unbound variable ~$ cat duh #! /bin/bash rm "${foo:?}/${bar:?}" ~$ ./duh ./duh: line 2: foo: parameter null or not set
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Originally posted by Contreras View PostYep. now marked as a hoax.
Hilarious.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostComment
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