doh!

[chrisla]

I can't believe it. I just made the most rookie UNIX mistake ever. After 20+ odd years use of UNIX use, I did what any book will say on page one paragraph one, NOT to do

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[pope_guilty]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[ethora]

Don't worry, all your pain is an illusion.

[valdelane]

Doh indeed. My big UNIX mistake was doing a recursive chmod 666 on the root of a big server because I accidentally inserted a space after the first /. Took the better part of a day to recover.

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[nikitanopants]

I understood very little of that, but I do understand the horrifying possibility of losing files. Especially big ones like movies or TV shows. Don't worry, there is a Video File Heaven where the big files go when they disappear. Plus, if you can get them back, you are the unquestioned lord and master of Computerland. Isn't that how it works? I don't know any of the UNIX systems, I use Windows. Sorry. (I always apologize whenever I have to say to anyone that I use Windows.)

[krimhum]

My roommate did that to a good chunk of my mp3 collection back in the Napster heyday (gods, 10 years ago?). It was my Industrial collection, and my Coil / Thrill Kill Cult / KMFDM collection still hasn't recovered from that.