John, when you know you gotta do those types of commands, wearing brown pants is always best. Jackie McBride Proofpoint Certified Email Authentication Specialist 2024 Author 36: Last Hours of a Life Be a hero. Fight Scams. Learn how at www.scam911.org/ Also check out wp4newbs.com brightstarsweb.com mysitesbeenhacked.com On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins < blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
It's a beautiful Saturday evening in June -- time for a story. Today i was messing around with computers and I remembered something that happened years ago. I was working for the Math Dept at the University Of Wisconsin and I had to type in a command that, if I typed it in wrong, could really do a lot of damage. If I did it wrong, I would have to reinstall stuff, restore from backups, etc. It might take days. So I checked and double checked what I had typed. Then I stopped and checked it again, just in case. Finally, I hit the enter key and ... my machine went down. I could hear the hard drive and the fan spin to a stop. Worse, all the machines in the room were going down. And then I realized that even the lights had gone off! It was only a split second before it hit me -- this was just a coincidence. The building had suffered a power outage and it had nothing to do with what I had typed. But for that split second, I came pretty close to filling my pants. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org