[ale] I did a bad bad thing...

Keith Hopkins hne at inetnow.net
Fri Dec 7 09:24:05 EST 2001


Paul Kinsley wrote:

> Ah, the attack of the Death Star.
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Golden wrote:
> 
>>>        And welcome to the `Used A Wildcard As Root In The Wrong
>>> Place' club. :)
>>>
>>
>> <joke mode="on">
>>
>> So, when does this club meet? I'm sure I'm quite qualified to be a
>> regular member? ;)
>>
>> </joke>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> ---


I knew one of the admins at GT who pulled a similar stunt during a late night run.  "del *.*" from the "root" directory on an IBM (4480?) mainframe.  oops.  The recover from 9-track tapes took a little bit longer than the delete did. :-)

LiT,
   K


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