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Unix Horror Stories - venam - 12-02-2017

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Horror Stories

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10 unix horror stories to amuse you.

References:
Our thread about the worst moments: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882
More and more horrors...
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt
http://www.yak.net/carmen/unix_horror.html
http://www.lug.wsu.edu/node/414
http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/90719-unix-horror-story-script-question.html
http://unixhorrorstories.blogspot.com/2011/08/unix-horror-stories-good-thing-about.html


If you want to contribute check this thread.


Music:
Modern Stylings: Methods of the Cigar Box Guitar
by Municipal Airport
Amplification and Synthesizer
https://municipalairport.bandcamp.com/album/modern-stylings-methods-of-the-cigar-box-guitar


RE: Unix Horror Stories - venam - 13-02-2017

Let's expand this topic.

I'd love to hear horror stories that are unrelated to data loss.
I'm also really interested in tips to avoid making cretinous mistakes.

You can also bump that other thread about your "worst" moment: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882


RE: Unix Horror Stories - tejr - 15-02-2017

http://www.softpanorama.org/Admin/Horror_stories/pure_stupidity.shtml

EDIT: Oh, wait, that's just a few selections from horror.txt already linked in venam's post, nm


RE: Unix Horror Stories - dcli - 15-04-2020

There's a great article here about unix horror stories: gopher://cyber.dabamos.de/0/text/unix_horror_stories.txt

For web users: https://pastebin.com/raw/yivVHT9H


RE: Unix Horror Stories - b4dtR1p - 17-07-2020

ty for ur podcast bro!

lovely