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True Stories of Knoppix Rescues

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-it-fits-in-your-wallet dept.

Omniscientist writes "We've all been there: Our system is on the edge of death and we need to either fix it or retrieve important data that still remains hidden away in its dying clutches. LinuxDevCenter has a funny article on a heroic tale of a sysadmin relying on Knoppix to save the day. I for one, always make a boot disk in case of problems, but Knoppix can turn a bad day into a good one for just about anyone. Perhaps every administrator should have a Knoppix CD on reserve."

6 of 335 comments (clear)

  1. Well... by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 4, Funny
    I, for one, welcome our new bootdisk making...

    Aw, fuck it.

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    DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
    1. Re:Well... by AceCaseOR · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't you mean "fsck it"?

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      Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you in your sleep.
  2. The obviousness by ZeeExSixAre · · Score: 5, Funny
    The article is well-summed-up in this gem here:

    I suppose the moral of this story is to be careful when you play around with the dd command and your MBR.

    DOY!

  3. what a coincedence by drunken+dash · · Score: 5, Funny

    i just burnt myself a cd of knoppix-3.8 the other day, for just this reason! although i've had no reason to use it (yet), im hoping my system starts acting up soon so i finally have an excuse to use it :P

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    Enjoy an e-piphany
  4. Re:Why is this a story? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but lotion seems to take care of that, after a little while.

  5. Early one morning . . . by ManDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had always read about this happening to other guys, but never thought it would happen to me.

    I was coiming into work early Monday morning knowing I had to reinstall everything on the secondary email server that went down on Sunday. I thought I would be the only one in, but Suzie from accounting had come in early too.

    I always loved her emails when she needed some help. They were cheerful and she had clearly always researched the problem she was haveing rather than the normal "it just doesn't work".

    She came up and told me when she booted up the system it wouldn't get past the initial Windows boot screen. She was wearing a tight baby blue collared shirt with a short black skirt. No stockings and black high heals. She leaned low and as I was looking at her black bra said in a slow sexy voice - "Can you fix it?"

    That's when I pulled out my Knoppix . . .