\_ learned something.  It was late and I just started dd'ing into home.
\_ By the time I caught it, too late.

dd is nice, but you have to very specific about what you type when.
You botch an argument and it's all over.

dd if=bootdisk.raw of=/dev/hda

um, ooops.

The only thing that saved me at the time from that evilness was the
fact that I was on  a SCSI system and the main disks start with an
's'.  I could have sworn the brain issued "... of=/dev/fd0" but
apparently not.

When used, dd is almost as cool as editing the netscape binary and
changing the inlined images to something more amusing.

David