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bobspud replied

10 May 2013, 18:52
Originally posted by psychocandy View Post

cd /
rm -r *

?????

The system will stay up for an amazing amount of time after you do that. I cleared up after a Doris that did something very similar trying to clear her home dir out...

If you want to destroy a unix box I prefer sticking the rm in a while true loop.
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norrahe replied

10 May 2013, 10:36
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Is he in Germany right now???

I'm sure we all know someone who can come to his rescue........
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FiveTimes replied

10 May 2013, 10:30
Originally posted by psychocandy View Post

cd /
rm -rf *

?????

ftfy
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vetran replied

10 May 2013, 10:26
Originally posted by aussielong View Post

Put it this way, I may have inadvertently conveyed incorrect information that could break a contract I did not realise I was subject to.

he gave the bosses daughter syphilis after telling her he was clean and then found out the HR chap had caught it as well?

Chin up!
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eek replied

10 May 2013, 09:48
Originally posted by MyUserName View Post

He wanted more test data to he connected to the live database and then dropped all of the deals?

(I know someone who actually did that)

I know someone who dropped the warehouse stock table on a JDE system thinking it was the UAT database.

It wasn't. Thankfully the oracle DBA was a lot sharper than everyone thought he was.
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psychocandy replied

10 May 2013, 09:44
cd /
rm -r *

?????
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TestMangler replied

9 May 2013, 18:39
Originally posted by aussielong View Post

No. I made a mistake in work. Nothing so saucy.

Did you offer to 'go toe to toe on Skype' with your boss's Mrs ?
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istvan replied

9 May 2013, 18:31
Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post

PM me - I can help

Watch out he is the bosses bos...
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doodab replied

9 May 2013, 18:07
Weak player
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bobspud replied

9 May 2013, 16:40
You are doing fine unless you just let some dumb ****er test the fire alarm system in your main computer room without setting the fire suppression systems to test first....

(true story!) 1500 users wiped out for the day while all the Unix Servers were FSCk'd could have killed 20 sysadmins had the Halon gas been operational

Thankfully not my fingers on the test switch but I never saw the FM prat that insisted on doing the test again...
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MyUserName replied

9 May 2013, 15:39
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Is he in Germany right now???
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FiveTimes replied

9 May 2013, 15:26
PM me - I can help
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KentPhilip replied

9 May 2013, 15:25
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

He forgot he'd commented out the where clause...

God yes that one's a killer

It happened to me one - And as a result deleted the entire contents of a table.
But that's where quick thinking comes in - I just connected to the DR site and did a select * to grab of copy of the table's contents; replication was so slow that the delete command had not replicated through yet
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MarillionFan replied

9 May 2013, 15:21
Originally posted by MyUserName View Post

He wanted more test data to he connected to the live database and then dropped all of the deals?

(I know someone who actually did that)

Is he in Germany right now???
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MyUserName replied

9 May 2013, 15:20
He wanted more test data to he connected to the live database and then dropped all of the deals?

(I know someone who actually did that)
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