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easy: me: "unix definitely won't just let me cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda" other: "sure it will" me: <presses enter> what I learned? unix will absolutely let
by earino 13y ago
easy:
me: "unix definitely won't just let me cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda"
other: "sure it will"
me: <presses enter>
what I learned? unix will absolutely let you hang yourself. 1998, production server for a fortune 5 company.
- krisdol 13y agoWhy in heaven's name did you try that in production?
- earino 13y agoit was 1998. i was young and foolish. no, seriously, i was 19. i was also SUPER convinced that it wouldn't work :) I have since learned to be waaaay less convinced since then.
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoProfessional suicide.
- earino 13y agoI respectfully disagree. I was a junior person who was given root level privileges on a production server. There were many layers of process and management that weren't in place. Today, I am a senior person at a multi-billion dollar company. I would never call "professional suicide" at a junior person who made a genuine mistake. I would scold them, and then I would try to figure out how we got into the situation where someone unqualified could cause us such a bad thing to happen.
- lauradhamilton 13y agoThat's quite funny. Linux will indeed let you hang yourself. I maintain that every experienced Linux user has seriously messed up their system at least once. More often personal / dev / test environment than production though...