[ale] Stoopid Noobs

[Mills, John M.]

Well, going back to the stone age ...

The first thing I adminstered that I could call an 'operating system'
was OS-8, a DECtape management system on my shiny, new PDP-8e. I
installed OS-8 on the box and set up DEC's version of FORTRAN (knuckles
glowing from all those &*(%$!! Toggle switches!), and worked the
afternoon.

Next day I found lots of stuff had been deleted. I went storming around
looking for the IDIOT who had done the damage, until it dawned on me
there was only one qualified idiot it could have been.

Great start to a career - or at least a good reality check.

 - Mills

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:14 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Stoopid Noobs

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.


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