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On Mon, 31 May 2004, purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote: |
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> 040530 Thorsten Kampe wrote: |
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> > * Christian Gut (2004-05-30 11:40 +0100) |
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> >> oh well, and it should move everything to a recycle bin |
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> >> and asking two times if you really, really want to delete something. |
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> >> Hey, this is not windows. |
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> > It has to do with security. |
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> > Command line deletion is always more dangerous than GUI deletion |
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> > because you cannot see and physically mark the files you want to delete. |
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> > The problem is simply that computer and human beings behave differently |
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> > when doing multiple things at the same time or for a long time. |
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> > Computers don't care how long they've been uptime, |
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> > how many things they do simultaneously |
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> > or if someone is disrupting their concentration. |
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> > People do - and there is nothing to eliminate these things; |
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> > just to put a barrier to the possible disastrous consequences. |
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> these msgs seem to sum up the opposite sides of the debate. |
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> the point i wanted to raise has nothing to do w novices, grannies or M$ : |
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> it's something which can affect the most experienced red-blooded sysadmin |
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> simply because for once in his life he's been working too long |
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> & just before he collapses he enters a cmd w an extra space in it. |
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> when machine guards, safety hats/boots etc were introduced in factories, |
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> there were similar objections from old hands who "didn't need such things", |
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> at least till they ended up in hospital missing a foot/hand/eye. |
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Yes and for sysadmins we have the pendant: a backup. If your deleted |
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something, just restore it, where is the problem? If there is no backup |
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it wasn't important. |
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