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you know what sucks?

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by danlm

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When your writing code on a remote machine and perform a 'rm' to remove some of the test files created... But when you do the 'rm *.jpg' you didn't quite do it that way... you did 'rm * .jpg'.

You know what sucks even more? The folder wasn't backed up. Chuckle, that has been resolved... But too late.

The remote machine is mine. It is a shell hosting machine that I run. I was writing Perl scripts to give me break downs of bandwidth by ip collected from the firewall rule sets. I was working on the graphics using Perl and gd module from cpan. The mysql db is set up and has a small history that I was collaging from another script that I had previously written. But, alas... Both scripts were in the same directory that I did the 'rm ' on. Poof, gone... History.

Chuckle, the sad part is... I'm not sure I really care... I'll rewrite the update script, but I found that the graphics just wasn't worth it. I can figure out the same thing through select statements.

Oh well... Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Dan

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by jmgarvin

I just did the same thing...I tossed a directory that had stuff I needed, but wasn't thinking when I did it...

Good times...good times...

by danlm

I had been thinking about backing up that directory... I just never got around to it... roflmao, now it is backed up every night... with an offsite occuring once a week.
I was doing backups of /etc, /home, /namedb, my email setup. But, not my script directory.

oh well, chit happens... Ill just rewrite it... I wasn't really happy with the code anyway... Wasn't modularized enough and wasn't commented... Could have been done better... Lol, guess ill do it better this time.

Dan

by nicknielsen

I once did the "format c: Are you sure? Of course I'm sure you stupid machine ohshitshitshitshitshit" on the wrong PC and wiped a test image I had just finished building but hadn't yet saved. 24 hours down the drain. I had my notes, though, so it only took 10 hours to rebuild it, most of that time swapping install disks.

That image was a total kluge for a government agency. Win98, MS Office, Lotus SmartSuite, WordPerfect, document templates for all three suites, almost all default settings changed, and both Token Ring AND dial-up connections (don't ask).

by danlm

I'm a gentleman(chittttttttttttttt), I think I better not answer that one or she will slap me.

Dan

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