Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: >Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Chuck Hallenbeck: >> > >> > # apt-get remove upgrade-system apt >> >> Nice one! This brightens my day a little as it reminds me how I found >> out the relationship betweent the commands available on MSDOS 5.0 and >> the contents of the C:\DOS directory. :) I don't know how many times I >> had deleted stuff from there until it finally hit me. >> >> Anyway, it's great of you not to be too embarassed to ask this and it is >> even better that you could get help so quickly. It was more difficult >> with MSDOS and no internet back then. > > Well, I have to tell you, I did hesitate to ask. But the help I got was > not only quick, but right on target. The trick is to learn from other > people's mistakes, not one's own. > > One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I > wouldn't have it any other way.
who here hasn't done an erroneous rm or some other fumble fingered thing? a few weeks ago i was working on tagging some pictures and didn't notice that i had selected 9000 of them instead of the few i intended. then i deleted the tags. there is no way to interrupt this. oops. i had to go find the backup files and restore the database which held the tags. luckily i did make a backup of my work and that was all it was to restore the tags instead of having to actually go dig up the 9000 picture files again. songbird
