[HN Gopher] Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
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       Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
        
       Author : ohjeez
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-07-31 14:25 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | tonyg wrote:
       | I wonder whether gnuemacs of the time had the ability to create
       | directories from Emacs lisp.
        
       | throwbadubadu wrote:
       | > Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when
       | you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed "rm -rf
       | ~/*" and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the
       | lines of "lend me a fiver 'til Thursday, or I hit return"?
       | 
       | Wow that is really nasty, the most we did was put confusing
       | backgrounds in, or cronjob a say "xxx is yyy" and have a laugh in
       | the next meeting :)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _Unix Recovery Legend (1986)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25491790 - Dec 2020 (97
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Unix Recovery Legend (1986)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 - Sept 2015 (60
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Unix Recovery Legend (1986)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892471 - June 2014 (52
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Unix recovery legend_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051 - March 2010 (83
       | comments)
        
         | jimmysoda wrote:
         | Deja vu all over again
        
           | janvdberg wrote:
           | More like an evergreen. The thing with evergreens is that
           | there will always be someone who will encounter it for the
           | very first time.
        
             | ohjeez wrote:
             | And that is perfectly okay.
        
               | BizarroLand wrote:
               | Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
        
           | bastardoperator wrote:
           | The internet repeats itself
        
             | BizarroLand wrote:
             | In the dictionary under "redundant" it says, "See
             | _Redundant_ "
        
           | fuzztester wrote:
           | >Deja vu all over again
           | 
           | "I'm a big fan of small utilities."
           | 
           | - That's a quote I made up in imitation of Yogi Berra's
           | quotes, which I'm a fan of.
           | 
           | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
        
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