[ale] Stoopid Noobs

[Jim]

That would probably have been 0.12 or so.I may have that conversation 
archived.

;)

Jim.
JK wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>
>   
>> Lets get another thread going.
>>
>> When I first did Linux in the early 90s I needed to copy a file from
>> Linux to Windows.  /dev/hda1 was Windows partition.  Here is how I did
>> it:
>>
>> cat file > /dev/hda1
>>
>> My next step was to reinstall Win 3.11 and then load my backup off of
>> floppy tape.  Never tried that again.
>>  
>>
>>     
> Sometime in 1990-1991, on my very first Linux 0.xx system, in
> a misguided attempt to achieve some goal I've long forgotten, I
> did "rm -rf /usr". Which eventually got around to deleting the
> "rm" executable, and chaos ensued. (That wouldn't happen today,
> I don't think, but back then paging worked quite differently.)
>
> It gets better.  I was completely confused by this behavior, since
> I didn't know that "rm" was a separate executable, not a shell
> builtin, so I posted a message to the Linux mailing list asking WTF
> was up.  Linus himself replied, explaining to me that I was
> an idiot.
>
> Good times....
>
> -- JK
>
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