And if the school hadn’t been run like this for years and it being known it was like this for years there wouldn’t have been a TV programme to make. I think you’d have to be pretty gullible to believe their statement.
And if the school hadn’t been run like this for years and it being known it was like this for years there wouldn’t have been a TV programme to make. I think you’d have to be pretty gullible to believe their statement.
An older friend of mine told me years back about an incident that happened on a university VAX running Unix. In those days, everyone was using vt100 terminals, and the disk drives weren’t all that quick. He was working on his own terminal when without warning, he got this error when trying to run a common command (e.g. ls
)
$ ls -l
sh: ls: command not found
So he went on over to the system admin’s office, where he found the sysadmin and his assistant, staring at their terminal in frozen horror. Their screen had something like:
# rm -rf / tmp/*.log
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
# ls -l
sh: ls: command not found
# stat /bin/ls
sh: stat: command not found
A few seconds after hitting return, and the rm
command not finishing immediately, he realised about the errant space, and then madly hammered Ctrl-C to try to stop it. It turns out that the disk was slow enough that not everything was lost, and by careful use of the commands that hadn’t been deleted, managed to copy the executables off another server without having to reinstall the OS.
The chances of an accident while flying on an airline are probably a lot lower than the chances of having an accident going to and from the pub.
Similar to “He’s one can short of a six pack”
Surprised it’s not Crapita.