TIL flooding computers with electricity allows one to capture the internet. If the internet is captured for long enough, you can cut antivirus. The more you know...
Worst thing I've done when I was in... not the right state of mind, was run iptables -F by mistake on a production server. A whole lot more disruptive than cluttering up a couple source files with drug-induced comments.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why SSH stopped responding until I re-read the line I just entered like 5 or 6 times. Horrible sinking feeling.
Not as bad as that crap gitlab or whatever did when they nuked the wrong server.
Yeah I think so. They connected to a server to wipe the DB or something but were connected to the wrong server. Scared the shit out of me at the time because they said they didn't know if they even had backups.
> At 2017/01/31 11pm-ish UTC, team-member-1 thinks that perhaps pg_basebackup is refusing to work due to the PostgreSQL data directory being present (despite being empty), decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com.
It happened to me once too, i was logged in on the wrong ftp server and RM'ed the whole webshop Last available local backup was worth a week of development Spent like a day to develop the deleted features
That kind of thing seems to plague sysadmins. Or at least the unfortunate ones.
Why popular filesystems don't support a trivial undelete feature like ZFS has, I will never know. Hell ext4 has an unused dtime so clearly someone thought of it.
well this was like 7 years ago the company i was doing an internship at did not use any kind of version control Funny thing that a mere intern could access prod :_)
One of those was minor, but okay. The others - I agree. I'd have rejected them too.
@StephenKing - please be aware of the guidance. If an edit is really minor, then it is not worth doing. Just changing a couple of words to bold is generally considered worse than leaving the original.
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