[Wolves] Shooting yourself in the foot

[Adam Sweet]

--- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/07, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > While perhaps not the best idea, demonstrating
> > incompetence on an archived list, I wondered if
> anyone
> > else has some good stories.
> >
> > My own well-told one is of using ifdown on a
> mchine
> > while SSHed in and also not being able to work out
> why
> > I couldn't talk to my home server for 3 months or
> so
> > until I realised I'd used a crossover cable to a
> > switch by mistake. These of course were a long
> time
> > ago when I was learning about Linux and networking
> in
> > my own time. No, that wasn't a lie :)
> >
> > I also remember one told a by a popular (un-named)
> LUG
> > member who was a member of a team which used to
> leave
> > rm -rf /* at a shell prompt as a joke to startle
> > people when they woke the terminal up. This was
> > apparently funny until one team member used Enter
> to
> > wake up the terminal on a production machine. I
> think
> > it deleted boot, bin and half of dev by the time
> they
> > stopped it and they had to work out how to repair
> the
> > machine.
> >
> > Anyone else care to step up and have tomoatoes
> thrown
> > at them? Feel free to say it was a friend of a
> friend
> > if you don't wish to compromise your future
> employer's
> > google searches about you :)
> >
> > Ad
> >
> 
> Adam, I think you've just done this yourself mate
> :-)  You've sent
> this message to the Wolves Freecycle list too
> :-)))))

Yes I did and thats exactly what I thought when I
realised. How embarrassing.

Interestingly though, I have already had one reply :)
Not from a guy with a story, but someone with an
interest in Linux.

Adam - is a dumbass

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