[KLUG Members] Intro and AU-LUG

[Seth Kramer]

Reminds me of an old UF strip. Voice recognition software is
installed...hilarity ensues:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010320&mode=classic

On Jan 13, 2008 7:42 PM, Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit at knbpower.com> wrote:
> Greetings Eric,
> >
> >
> > Our firm proudly supports the Ubuntu philosophy and we also sell and
> > support system running Debian and Redhat based distributions.  Any
> > experiences you can bring to us are welcome.
> >
>
> I've been on the list since 2000 maybe 1999. The old hats will remember
> me. I'm that guy that used to drive up from Elkhart!
>
> Anyhow, my experience?  First exposure was in 1995-1996 in the .78 to
> .82 kernel days. Then I moved to Indiana and started fooling with Linux
> again. Ran Red Hat 7.3 servers at work til RH abandoned the 7x series. I
> switched the servers to Debian and never looked back. HATE Ubuntu for
> only one reason. I have to sudo everything. Give me a root prompt. Y-E-S
> I know it can be switched.
>
> Any rate, how would I rate Debian! Absolutely awesome and reliable as
> long as my fingers stay off the keyboards! <grin>
>
> *** Disclaimer ***
> BTW, do N-O-T type the following command if you are new to Linux or
> never used it. It WILL cause you to have a bad day. You have been warned!
> *** Disclaimer ***
>
> Back in 2002,  myself (and my employer) suffered three suicidal server
> crashes in three days on a Debian server due to a badly placed 'rm -rf'
> command in a script! Fortunately for me (and my job) the boss had a good
> sense of humor about the whole issue and I got really good at disaster
> recovery - QUICK! Lesson to be learned here children:
>
> A-L-W-A-Y-S specify an absolute path when using an 'rm -rf' command!
> A-L-W-A-Y-S specify an absolute path when using an 'rm -rf' command!
> A-L-W-A-Y-S specify an absolute path when using an 'rm -rf' command!
>
> Yes, it's worth repeating 3 times. Someone is always dumb enough to type
> it in! <-- It's human nature (oh, it won't happen to me!)
>
> So, to help the inept who are tempted to use the above without looking
> up what will happen first...
>
> rm = remove file(s)
> -f = force (don't confirm, just do it)
> -r = recursive (another wards, delete everything I see)
>
> So, now that I have given a quick newbie lesson on a command that will
> ruin your weekend.
>
> What happened in my case? I was running it from inside a nightly script
> where a directory didn't exist due to a cd (change directory) scripting
> error. The previous directory was / <slash> or aka the root directory.
> So executing 'rm -rf' while happily sitting in / (root dir) caused my
> server to commit suicide.
>
> Fast forwarding almost 6 years now... Today, I run 6 servers in two
> organizations and two servers at home. I've got a triple boot laptop (XP
> Home, Debian and Vector Linux) and program in TCL, SQL (Postgresql),
> Rivet and HTML. In case anyone cares, Debian Etch is my flavor.
>
> So that is my experience. Hopefully someone learns from my mistakes. One
> day I need to make the run up there again. It's been too long!
>
> Richard aka Goose
> Mishawaka, IN
>
> / I wonder if my old Klug shirts fit anymore???
>
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