Tell the truth, who was it

[hatt]

Quote:
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code.


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...e-a6984256.html

 

[Kawiguy454]

Was Mr. Marsala's fist name by any chance "Chicken".

I see more of this happening as users put things in the "Cloud" then lose link to it and then go "Where" to find it? Back up your stuff ya dope.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: Kawiguy454
Was Mr. Marsala's fist name by any chance "Chicken".

It may have been Val, or Veal maybe...

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I would always joke with people and tell them to run rm -rf /*

Didn't think anyone would do it.

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: Miller88
I would always joke with people and tell them to run rm -rf /*

Didn't think anyone would do it.

format c: enter
yes
enter
enter

and yes, they actually did it.
i was left with the headache of recovery.....

 

[simple_gifts]

As a semiprofessional administrator working in a professional environment, the only thing I draw from this is he was probably fronting a professional hosting company while the whole infrastructure was a cobbled together mess.

Never in my life have I ever "mounted a filesystem" for the purposes of backing up data, except @ my house; even then I had enough foresight to create read only snapshots of the filesystems. Needlesstosay, doing software development on production data.... whaaaaaa? As indicated by some of the comments he received, not much sympathy because of the numerous common sense measures that he ignored.

 

[Garak]

Basically, the person in this story has enough knowledge to be harmful, but not enough to be useful?

 

[Subdued]

I do all my everyday computing from root

what

 

[Californiabob]

here's a list of the better ones:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/line_break_pilot/

my favorite is the guy who brought down the entire NY
stock exchange trading system running on a fault-tolerant
Tandem Nonstop system by violating one of the
cardinal rules about touching that live system.

 

[The_Eric]

The linked article has since been updated to state that the whole thing was a hoax.

Originally Posted By: From the linked article
Update: Since this story was posted, Mr Marsala has claimed that his original post was a hoax and written as a marketing stunt, but that it had happened to a client of his in 2006. Contacted by The Independent, Mr Marsala said that the post was guerilla marketing for another, unnamed, company.