Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Taming The Data Destroyer Date: 18 Nov 2025 23:02:21 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <10fe1ec$ipc8$1@dont-email.me> <87a50k5yt3.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <691b8e3b@news.ausics.net> <691c12b7@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net i0K5m8nkvLUQq8BX8dqkUQUYkA57qJW9J84gvosjTGrmRlhJeG Cancel-Lock: sha1:+UCTHL1seK/Va6w4nKz+hgFrSOY= sha256:f3K0+MIVduE16HwpN5IQFVmLqlIv1Hj3aKcpmVlrVkI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77736 On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:12:22 -0500, c186282 wrote: > A problem with newbies/oblivious is that they tend to search the web > for fixes to whatever minor prob and then just cut-n-paste. They > don't/can't even consider what those 13 params mean. Color me oblivious. Most of the things I've done with PowerShell have been a blind cut'n'paste hoping for the best. At this point in life learning PowerShell is Priority 7. (7 was the priority we assigned to requests that meant 'nobody is ever going to be bored enough to touch that dark hole'.) I sometimes see people complaining about a bug that hasn't been resolved in years. That usually means one or more people gently prodded it, sniffed the air, and ran like hell.