[Wolves] Shooting yourself in the foot

[Richard Smedley]

> 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 :)

Don't feel too bad, it only affected you.

This is one of my favourites, from the VAX days. Definitely wasn't
me [1], but I do know someone who was there at the time.

I don't know where the original USENET post is, but there 
are two mirrors at: 
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
http://lug.eecs.wsu.edu/node/414

> > 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.

This put a smile on my face. Thanks :-)

 - Richard

[1] I was hacking guitars in those days, and my mistakes
did lead to much suffering ;^P

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