[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"
Joe Zeff
joe at zeff.us
Mon Mar 21 23:46:13 UTC 2011
On 03/21/2011 04:23 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Whereas in
> a proper root shell aren't you prone to "grave mistakes" due to silly
> things like typos, "forgot where I am in the directory tree" like
> errors?
First, I only use su - if and *only* if I have to, to avoid those
embarrassing "where was I?" moments. (I also use pwd if I'm not
completely sure.) Second, before I do anything as root, I read over the
command several times to be sure. And, before deleting *anything* as
root, I use ls to see exactly what I'm going to delete and I never
delete anything *as root* without good reason. IOW, I'm very careful.
I won't say that I can't make mistakes, but I can say that after using
Linux as a secondary OS starting in about '98 and as my only OS since
Fedora 9 I've learned how to avoid almost all of them. I tend to regard
such things as simple, common prudence and expect the same from most of
the people on this list.
As I've been writing this, something interesting has occurred to me: by
the time I stopped doing tech support for an ISP (Our call center was
closed and the entire support crew was laid off.) I had been "on the
phones" longer than anybody else there. I found myself, more and more,
finding things obvious that nobody else understood or knew, simply
because none of the other techs had anywhere near my experience.
Considering how long I've been using Linux, this may well be simply
another case of my not realizing how different my experience level is
compared to the rest of the list.
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