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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Earlier
I replied to Rusty's comment, but I ended up replying to him and
not the list.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here's
what I wrote.</span></p>
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<span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Over
the last 20 years i've read many horror stories of people
running rm -rf * in the root directory as root. Here's your
sign people.</span></p>
<p>Here is Rusty's reply.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yeah.
I remember many years ago, when I was trying to install Linux
beside Windows (95, I think). Was having issues, decided to cd
/;rm -rf * - which would have been fine but for one minor issue
- /dos (or /windows, whatever), was still mounted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oops.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After
I realized what I’d done, I paused and thought - ok, why am I
worried about keeping Windows around anyway? Answer: for
freecell. Hmm. Wonder if freecell works under wine? Yep! Ok,
no more windows needed! ;-)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(Of
course, now I use aisleriot, but that’s a different story)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">BTW,
you realize you only replied to me, and this is only going
between you and me.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Feel
free to send your answer to the list, and you can include this
as well if you want….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rusty</span>
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