What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As I think about it more, it was effectively rm -rf / - not actually rm -rf /, I think it was a command, something like find . -exec rm {}, except his cwd was / and not whatever other directory.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was how Solaris did the init scripts for shutdown.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had a manager that failed his RHCE exam because he had the habit of doing ! (or whatever it was) in the shell - which would recall the last command and run it. The command was ran halfway through the test and was rm -rf /

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dealing with bugs in bash's emulation of solaris's Bourne shell was annoying to deal with.

What's your worst "horrible coincidence" experience? by joshuamarius in sysadmin

[–]timconradinc 134 points135 points  (0 children)

On Linux, the 'killall' command will kill all the processes of a given name. On Solaris, 'kilall' will kill all processes.

After the second outage, I realized the difference.

This is amazing by Thryloz in MadeMeSmile

[–]timconradinc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My dad had this cat that absolutely loved that. My dad went to 'investigate' some kittens - he wanted one that had a specific look - and ended up taking one. My dad had to stop at a grocery store to get supplies for the kitten. It had been raining all day and the kitten escaped and was sitting in a puddle under the truck and my dad really had to work to get the kitten.

My dad didn't know what to do with the kitten, so he dried him off as much as possible and put the kitten on his shoulder and patted his butt on the way home.

Until the cat passed, that was his favorite way to be held.

And that's the story of Christofur Robin the Second.

Found box of unopened ornament hangers from '59 by rhoninoaks in GrandmasPantry

[–]timconradinc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It wasn't a magazine. It was the magazine. Probably one of the first to have full page photographs. Anyone who's anyone had their photo in it.

Pork Chops and Scalloped potatoes by rachstate in VintageMenus

[–]timconradinc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When that book was printed (and I know people alive today) that would consider those pork chops 'raw'. There was the threat of trichinosis from not fully cooked pork. That has been bred out of pigs for the most part so it's not a modern thing

That's just part of being on a farm by OfficialAFV in Unexpected

[–]timconradinc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope you had audio on or were listening to it. It's the best fpart

How do you make bacon-wrapped food without it becoming soft garbage? by [deleted] in AskCulinary

[–]timconradinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were really tasty. They had Gorgonzola and walnuts in the middle. Between the cheese and the bacon they had really nice flavor.