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What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made?
"In the interest of full disclosure, this is mine:
I was working at a Fortune 50 bank as a consultant. I was due to go on vacation for a week and the company did not have webmail. I decided that I would try forwarding emails to my corporate account. (I know this was a bad idea, and probably against several corporate policies.) I set it up so that any email that came in would forward to my consulting company's account. My mistake was I also left Delivery Receipt on. This was not Microsoft, it was Lotus Notes. The system began forwarding the incoming mail to my account. But then it would get a Delivery Receipt, which in turn would be forwarded to my account, which would generate another delivery receipt, ad infinitum. When I got back from vacation they claimed I had brought down the email system for 4 hours. This incident caused the bank to stop allowing consultants to set up email rules. What's your story?"
rofl, very nice.
Bah. Mistakes will be made.
Like a lot of other people, I've screwed up using the rm command before. It's a powerful and dangerous command. But I have also saved a lot of time and effort and money by having crazy powerful commands at my fingertips. I don't think rm is "brain-damaged," and I wouldn't change it just because it's a little dangerous.
Make your own "delete" command (alias "rm -i") if you are unsure of yourself when using the real stuff.
-=Ivan