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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostThis would never have happened with Windows.
IT equivalent of the darwin awards.
Code:del *.obj
Code:del *. obj
It took me about three days to stitch a couple of large 8086 assembly language source files back together manually using Norton Utilities' hex sector editor. On the bright side, I learned lots about the FAT file system's internal structure in a very short amount of timeComment
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Originally posted by stek View PostCan't really call 'rm -rf' 'code' though really?
* Monumental stupidity.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View PostWindows 95 in 1993?The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostThis would never have happened with Windows.
IT equivalent of the darwin awards.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Postmanually using Norton Utilities' hex sector editor. On the bright side, I learned lots about the FAT file system's internal structure in a very short amount of timeComment
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Quite a few years back I got a short contract to try and piece together a defence simulator from various partial backups after somebody managed to delete/corrupt the lot and there was no full working backup. Highest paid gig I ever had.
PS Rather worrying a bit of batch file can do that. Now I shall be like that Ren & Stimpy bit. I mustn't type it in, mustn't mustn't. aaaagh.
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