Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> On Monday 19 September 2005 20:06, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> > > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories.
> >
> > Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I o
On Monday 19 September 2005 20:06, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories.
>
> Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I once accidentally stapled
> my thumbs together. Beat that
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:08 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> Yep, the painful screwups stick in your mind for a very long time and
> teach you a lot!
Plus they make great stories. "You ran rm -rf / on your PRODUCTION
system???" Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider"
stories.
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Peter B
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:09:16AM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
>
> Being too carefull might prevent you to do something stupid, but
> sometimes it is faster to scew up your system and restart from
> scratch :-)
Haha! So true!
> If you never screwed up your system while trying to improve it
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:36 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> That was a rhetorical question used as a continuation in explaining the
> search process. IOW, I am trying to teach him *how* to search which is
> the best thing a new person can be taught.
That is right, but you could have been nicer.
On the othe
