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You sir are a very bad man. 
David
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If somehow a Martian could be fitted somewhere,this could be real news!
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If only his name was Doug.
We could probably do a ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) and :doug: skit. Hoser's of the world stand up and raise your beer and donuts. 
Chris Meech
"what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002.
"And when you need to hire a programmer to do mostly VB programming, it's not good enough to hire a VB programmer, because they will get completely stuck in tar every time the VB abstraction leaks." Joel on Software Nov 11, 2002.
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Chris Meech wrote:
beer and donuts.
The Breakfast of Champions!
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long
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All my important (work) data is on a Unix based CVS server which is backed up nightly with copies of the tapes being stored off-site. I have one current project which has yet to be added to the Unix repository (I use a local CVS repository) which I FTP to a backup folder on our Unix box when I am in the office. Ditto for my email messages (I have mailboxes going back to 1997 for some reason). Hence, if my laptop goes titsup.com then I might lose a few hours work at most. Thnaks to the joys of ADSL/VPN, even when at home I make sure I copy my local CVS store to a central server just in case my laptop gets dropped/stolen. I would spend more time re-installing my local apps (Visual Studio, etc.) then I would recovering lost code.
My biggest worry would be losing all my MP3s! I am considering investing in a portable backup drive for this reason (my boss wouldn't be too pleased if I uploaded 10GB of MP3s onto one of our central servers!).
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
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The client software is the Cisco Systems VPN Client. Seems to work a treat (I have one of those code-generator key fobs which I use via a PIN to obtain the password).
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
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Indeed... CVS is Just Done Right. No odd database dependencies, no weird formats, zero data corruption. Want to back up the repository? tar/gzip (or winzip, depending on your platform).
Tim Lesher <tim@lesher.ws>
www.lesher.ws
WinDev: the Windows Developers' Mailing List
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
my boss wouldn't be too pleased if I uploaded 10GB of MP3s onto one of our central servers!).
I can't imagine why 
Matt Newman
Post best viewed with lynx
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My data's lost? AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Oddly enough, this happened to me recently, after i accidentally left out a check for an empty path in a recursive delete routine. Those lost were small among the ranks of files, but will be missed just the same.
Shog9
drifting along
with the tumbling tumbleweeds...
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There we go. It's proven once again.
Recursion and delete commands are not meant to be used together.
Cheers,
Simon
"I ask candidates to create an object model of a chicken.", Bruce Eckel on interviewing programmers.
animation mechanics in SVG (my first abstract photo)
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SimonS wrote:
Recursion and delete commands are not meant to be used together.
ROFLMAO! It's in my sig now 
"Recursion and delete commands are not meant to be used together"
SimonS, CPian
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And you weren't kidding!
Sweet! 
SimonS, CPian <--- I should use that as my email name too. Much better than SimonS, MBE or SimonS, Esq.
Cheers,
Simon
"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie.... Study computers instead.", Jackie Chan on career choices.
animation mechanics in SVG (my first abstract photo)
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SimonS wrote:
And you weren't kidding!
SimonS wrote:
SimonS, CPian <--- I should use that as my email name too.
Well, that's why I used this name in the sig. So I don't need to change it again
cu
Max
"Recursion and delete commands are not meant to be used together"
SimonS, CPian
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One of my most useful, and most dangerous, utilities is aptly named Nuke. Some years ago I added a check so it will no longer operate from the root of a drive. We learn from our mistakes.
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My first experience with Nuke was 1 week into this job, when I wiped out the C: drive.
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Friend of mine downloaded some file manager having some features like the famous Norton Commander, but was done in Delphi and for Windows(about 10 years ago).
As you probably know, there are two hardwired files in FAT directory structure . (this directory) and .. (move to parent directory)
When he tried to delete some directory, The Bug appears - the file manager deleted (in recursion of course) also the .. file. What were the results, you can imagine easily I guess.
Two years after that incident he met the author of the file manager...
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