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Just tell them it's the same as a Windows installer accidentally removing the entire Program Files directory.
by stephen_g 15y ago
Just tell them it's the same as a Windows installer accidentally removing the entire Program Files directory.
- mikemaccana 15y agoIt's a DELTREE on %whateveritis%
- Splines 15y agoPool of Radiance had a bug where the uninstaller would wipe your hard drive. Oops. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1.html http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1....
- aidenn0 15y agoOkay, that is not the pool of radiance I played as a kid.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y agoand the entire windows directory, and the entire users directory, and ...
- stephen_g 15y agoIt was only deleting /usr, which doesn't contain home directories or config files. I suppose that /usr does store a good chunk of what the Windows directory has in it though.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y agoSorry, was thinking of the awful `rm -rf /` variant...
- uxp 15y agoIn other Unix flavors, /home may be an alias to /usr/home.
- arethuza 15y agoI knew someone who, in the days of Windows 3.1, managed to accidentally invoke "format c:" from inside Microsoft Word - I was in the same room as them when they did it and heard the cries for help. What they couldn't do was explain to me what they had done to accompish such a feat.
- statictype 15y agoAs Windows was probably installed on C it probably didn't do any real damage, did it?
- srdjanjovcic 15y agoIf I remember correctly, that was before Windows started protecting boot volume.
- yuhong 15y agoTo be more precise, NT had file locking enforced by the OS unlike DOS.