On 19/08/11 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote: > Hi All > > As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at > my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing > typos or human errors. Examples could be: > > who can do the most damage to a system with the fewest number of keystrokes? > > what duff error gives the most spectacular failure? > > what error can trigger the longest chain of disasters? > > I am sure you get the gist .... > > > > Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as > opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
Although not in the "fewest keystrokes" category, perhaps this goes in: "duff error *of judgement* gives the most spectacular failure?" and "what error *of judgement* can trigger the longest chain of disasters?". This would have been back in the days of Slackware 2.x at a guess, I wanted to build something that needed a newer libc version, so with the naive thought of "how hard can it be?" I embarked on upgrading the core C library on my (i386!) system. A long weekend later, I had a working system again, with the fresh new libc installed - and the software I wanted to build that had started the whole odyssey....... still didn't build - <thud>! Live and learn - and give thanks everyday for VBox...... Chris -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
