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Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company

From Ed Mullen <ejEMOVER@edmullen.net>
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy, sbay.linux, alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company
Date 2016-04-14 22:03 -0400
Organization Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com
Message-ID <9am7n6.6cm.19.1@news.alt.net> (permalink)
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On 4/14/2016 9:47 PM, Ed Mullen's fingers rattled off:
> On 4/14/2016 8:23 PM, Big Bad Bob's fingers rattled off:
>> On 04/14/16 16:15, Jeremy Bentham so wittily quipped:
>>> In article <61c3067379b956efc75286b82e670da3@dizum.com>
>>> Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    The 'rm -rf *' scourge.
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If he was running Windows, dumb stuff like that wouldn't happen.
>>>
>>
>> format C: - ever done THAT ?
>>
>
> The capability to do that has to exist.  Should it ask more times than
> once before it does.  Yes, most likely.  Still, you can only protect
> people from themselves so much before you become a total nuisance.
>
> Frankly, if I were trying to maintain my system and Windows wouldn't let
> me do that command?  I'd be totally pissed off.
>
> It's MY system.  If I want to format my system drive I MUST be able to
> do it without undo jumping through hoops.
>

And, BTW, the first thing I do when buying a new system (with at least 
an OEM Windows disc) is reformat the C: drive and reinstall Windows.  I 
don't want any so-called OEM recovery partitions or programs on my 
computer.  I probably know more about it than they do any way.

But, hey, I've been doing this since around 1980 and CP/M.  I don't want 
or need a "retail" solution to buying a PC.  Unfortunately, it's 
becoming more difficult to find that.  To rebuild a Dell laptop from 
scratch is a painful  process in terms of finding the drivers and 
utilities that let the laptop function.

In the case of the Dell, you can find, via Googling, the right drivers, 
after a lot of work.  And the file that tells you what order to install 
all the crap in order to not screw up the whole thing.  But it ain't 
easy to find.

Stupid.  Any desktop PC I've had over the decades has been very generic 
in that regard.  If I didn't travel I'd never buy another laptop.  Every 
one I've ever owned has had the same problem. Proprietary drivers and 
such.  A real pain in the ass.  Whereas, every desktop system could be 
wiped and re-installed from scratch and MS found and installed all the 
right drivers. Laptops?  NOT!

Oh well.  It's a hobby.  Hobbies are supposed to require work, right?


-- 
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too 
dark to read. - Groucho Marx

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    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-14 20:38 -0400
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-04-20 15:37 -0500
                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-21 07:00 -0500
              Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-04-15 14:54 -0500
                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Ed Mullen <ejEMOVER@edmullen.net> - 2016-04-15 20:09 -0400
                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-15 20:27 -0400
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2016-04-17 08:48 +0200
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2016-04-18 23:57 +0200
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        Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-04-15 14:58 +0100
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          Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-04-15 16:34 +0000
          Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-18 13:04 +0200
            Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-18 21:01 +0200
      Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2016-04-15 13:06 -0500
        Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-04-15 20:17 +0000
    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Anonymous - 2016-04-15 09:28 -0400
    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2016-04-15 13:04 -0500
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        Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Ed Mullen <ejEMOVER@edmullen.net> - 2016-04-15 20:12 -0400
          Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2016-04-17 14:07 +0100
  Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Big Al <Big_Al@invalid.com> - 2016-04-15 13:53 -0400
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