What is the most stupid thing you did on linux?

bigbenaugust · 2017-07-25 14:57:30

ahahahah, I have one in my stash, I might turn the kids loose on it someday.

Sector11 · 2017-07-25 15:36:23

Every time I see one of those I'm tempted to buy one, just because they look cool. But, all I have is a desktop at home, wasted money.

HowTo Use a Rubber Hammer
- apply to forehead several times.
- take two aspirins
- go to bed.

When to use:
- after NOT unfolding a rubber keyboard.

]:D Sorry iMBeCil but that is one good "OMG! I'll never do that again story!"

iMBeCil · 2017-07-25 21:08:50

^^ahahahah indeed
^No need to be sorry Sector ... I suppose those rubber keyboards are really meant to be used in 'hostile' environment. One I had was actually a gift from the guy who works with them in slaughterhouse 8) :facepalm:

Obviously, very unsimilar to the use I have found for it.

Sector11 · 2017-07-25 22:48:23

And a good learning experience ...

Do I want to come back at 3AM -  (y)es | (n)o:\
Then ${if_match ${come_back_at_3am} == n}\
unfold/unroll rubber keyboard and ${endif}\
go home.

ohnonot · 2017-08-13 16:59:53

i lost data.
someone had a signature saying:
"Computer users can be divided into 2 groups: those that havn't lost any data yet, and those that have."
I belong to the second group now.
I will learn how to use rsync.

I managed to restore most of the data, but a lot is also lost irrevocably.
and there's a HUGE difference between "most of it" and "all".
unfortunately the data was not system critical, on a separate partition, and so it took me a while to even notice that something happened.
and I still don't know what actually happened; a whole user-writable partition wiped down to the bones. like a simple rm -rf *. but of course i looked through my history, and I haven't issued any such command.
i suspect that the command "userdel -rf radicale" might have been the culprit - radicale being an unprivileged user i temporarily created fo the software of the same name. needless to say, that partition was NOT owned by or the home of radicale.

data recovery is only for the desperate.
neither extundelete nor photorec nor testdisk managed to recover my blog - an intricate structure of cached files, based on articles written in markdown - yes, i have a huge pile of numbered files now, but that's just useless. i will try to soft out at least the markdown files.
from now on, double backups please: internal and external.

upside:
i managed to implement a few changes that have been overdue:
- repartition the hard drive
- encrypted data partitions
- NFS share for my desktop computer, instead of sshfs
- new passwords/keys
- safer & stricter user policies (duh)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-08-13 17:07:59

ohnonot wrote:

double backups please: internal and external

The "3,2,1"* backup strategy is usually advised:

Keep at least three copies of your data.
Keep the backed-up data on two different storage types.
Keep at least one copy of the data offsite.

8)

* also known as the "Dusty Bin" paradigm (for our British users). 8o

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obscurant · 2017-08-13 19:48:44

While installing Quake 2, I changed the permissions of every file on my system to 755.

I learned not to do terminal stuff before coffee.

ohnonot · 2017-08-14 05:04:20

^ ouch.
systemwide, i.e. starting from / recursively?
what was the aftermath?

Sector11 · 2017-08-14 13:45:17

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The "3,2,1"* backup strategy is usually advised:
* also known as the "Dusty Bin" paradigm (for our British users). 8o

Good for businesses I guess. But what about that retired guy with just a simple desktop setup?

Keep at least three copies of your data.
Keep the backed-up data on two different storage types.
Keep at least one copy of the data offsite.

1 - three copies - OK that's doable
- working HHD
- backup EXT HDD
- another backup EXT HDD
2 - two different storage types
- R/W DVD's - naaaaaaaaaa almost dead anyway
- where do I get an affordable 500GB SD Stick?
3 - offsite
- give it to a neighbour? I think not.
- in the cloud ... that's giving it to everyone.

However, I could put it in Dusty <-- that's awesome BTW.

obscurant · 2017-08-14 15:51:52

ohnonot wrote:

^ ouch.
systemwide, i.e. starting from / recursively?
what was the aftermath?

The system does not boot in that condition . I looked into trying to fix it, but re-installing was the best way to go.

vasa1 · 2017-08-14 16:30:17

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Clearing $HOME of scrots, misplaced a space:
empty@Puffy:~ $ rm * .png
Ah well, I needed to tidy up anyway...

Thanks for posting that. I promptly aliased "rm" to "rm -i".

Sector11 · 2017-08-14 16:45:12

^ what if you have something like 473 removals?

tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap .. tap [hold down Enter key] {yawn - snore}

OOPS! Not that dozen ...

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damo · 2017-08-14 16:58:12

^ use a different switch then

 -I                    prompt once before removing more than three files, or
                          when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i,
                          while still giving protection against most mistakes

Sector11 · 2017-08-14 18:00:39

hmm I was making a joke. O:)

I had to check the man page just to find out what " -i " was.

I am very careful with "rm" especially with my typing ability or should I say my tpyoability.

ohnonot · 2017-08-14 18:44:51

Sector11 wrote:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
The "3,2,1"* backup strategy is usually advised:
* also known as the "Dusty Bin" paradigm (for our British users). 8o
Good for businesses I guess. But what about that retired guy with just a simple desktop setup?

exactly.
i had to go out and buy another terabyte of storage before i could even get started.
something the "backup, backup, backup" preachers tend to omit silently...

Sector11 · 2017-08-14 20:15:01

Well, what I have is:

   $ hdd
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (29.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000AAKX size: 500.1GB serial: WD-WCC2EMF62817
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: HM250HI size: 250.1GB serial: S1RUJ9BZ400836
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10L
           rev: LL12 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
           Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running

And my backups fit on the 250GB EXT drive with lots of room to spare. So you must have a LOT more stuff than I do.

And I still have a couple of ancient dvd-ram discs around here some place ... but using those are sloooow! The drive itself is still trucking along just fine.

brontosaurusrex · 2017-08-14 20:35:06

Another option is no backups.

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KrunchTime · 2017-08-14 23:17:49

Sector11 wrote:

2 - two different storage types
- R/W DVD's - naaaaaaaaaa almost dead anyway

And they're not reliable for archival purposes, let alone the blank coasters you have to contend with.

I bought an external Blu-Ray player and some Blu-Ray discs a few years ago thinking I was going to backup my ripped CD collection on them. Then I got to thinking about how cheap external hard drives are, how little storage space they require, and not having to hassle with burning files on discs. Pitched the Blu-Ray discs in the garbage a few weeks ago and the Blu-Ray player I've never used, although I could use it with my laptop for ripping purposes.

Sector11 wrote:

3 - offsite
- give it to a neighbor? I think not
- in the cloud ... that's giving it to everyone.

You could do either if you encrypt it; e.g. Veracrypt.

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Sector11 · 2017-08-14 23:52:40

@ KrunchTime

RE: DVD-RAM - your little blurp about Blue-Ray remined me of just how bad those DVD-RAM disc's were - I remember how a few times I could not read the things and had to start over ... which in turn reminds me why they are "here someplace" - just never bothered with them.

RE: Encrypt and give to a neighbour - no neighbours I know well enough to do that.

But hey, coasters sound good.

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bigbenaugust · 2017-08-15 01:35:04

When I was working for a small department at a large private university on the West Coast, I used my house for offsite backups for years, I kept the last month's backups (was 5-10 LTO3's as I recall) in a metal box under the bed and the USB key with the decryption key. In the end, I got the boss to spring for real offsite backups a year or so before I left. Their facility was a sight nicer than the master bedroom of my house.

Oddly, the decryption key came across the country with me when I quit-- guess I was a little TOO efficient at cleaning my desk-- It is sitting in my desk at my current employer (an even larger public university on the East Coast). I hope they never needed it.

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