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anotherengineer wrote:

wow brutal, you'd think the script would say can't find dir or something and ask for more input.

glad i can't use b.a.sh or know how to write scripts lol

cphite wrote:

Our director was an old mainframe guy; and a pretty good one when it came to that. But anything not related to the mainframe was magic to him.

anotherengineer wrote:

wow brutal, you'd think the script would say can't find dir or something and ask for more input.

glad i can't use b.a.sh or know how to write scripts lol

del C:\%FORGOT_TO_DEFINE%\*.* /s /q

rd /s /q C:\%FORGOT_TO_DEFINE%

just brew it! wrote:

cphite wrote:

Our director was an old mainframe guy; and a pretty good one when it came to that. But anything not related to the mainframe was magic to him.

One of the reasons I left my job at a DOE laboratory way back in the day was that (due to a reorg) the department I was in got put under an old mainframe guy. We were doing bleeding edge (for the 1990s) stuff, had built a custom supercomputer from scratch (with a next-gen follow-on on in the early planning stages), and were also starting to look at using clusters of commodity PCs as cheap compute servers (this was still considered to be a novel concept back then). Mainframe guy's attitude was "Why would we want to do any of that? We still have this perfectly good Amdahl mainframe!"

just brew it! wrote:

Amdahl mainframe!"

Flying Fox wrote:

Do not run this with admin rights, and definitely do not run these on your computers!!

for /d %p IN ("c:\*.*") DO rd "%p" /s /q

Ryu Connor wrote:

Flying Fox wrote:

Do not run this with admin rights, and definitely do not run these on your computers!!

Gotta go for the gold, Fox.

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for /d %p IN ("c:\*.*") DO rd "%p" /s /q

Kougar wrote:

The guy had >1500 customers but not a single offline or cold backup anywhere? That's unlikely or just really stupid.

Flying Fox wrote:

Wouldn't "rd /s /q c:\" do it already? I was trying to mimic the script in the dude's story.

Captain Ned wrote:

Hell, if I want to destroy the data on a spinny HD, it's far more entertaining and satisfying to plop the drive on the stump out back and let fly with some .270 Win rounds.

Update: Since this story was posted, Mr Marsala has claimed that his original post was a hoax and written as a marketing stunt, but that it had happened to a client of his in 2006.

gecko575 wrote:

Wow just read the article. At the bottom it has this update:

Update: Since this story was posted, Mr Marsala has claimed that his original post was a hoax and written as a marketing stunt, but that it had happened to a client of his in 2006.

He's either telling the truth or trying to cover up a big mistake

whm1974 wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

cphite wrote:

Our director was an old mainframe guy; and a pretty good one when it came to that. But anything not related to the mainframe was magic to him.

One of the reasons I left my job at a DOE laboratory way back in the day was that (due to a reorg) the department I was in got put under an old mainframe guy. We were doing bleeding edge (for the 1990s) stuff, had built a custom supercomputer from scratch (with a next-gen follow-on on in the early planning stages), and were also starting to look at using clusters of commodity PCs as cheap compute servers (this was still considered to be a novel concept back then). Mainframe guy's attitude was "Why would we want to do any of that? We still have this perfectly good Amdahl mainframe!"

I forgot how many times I have heard of mainframe guys failing to adapt to to the rise of the PC.

UnfriendlyFire wrote:

I recall seeing a business with a sign that mentioned something about them having a business page on Myspace.

just brew it! wrote:

UnfriendlyFire wrote:

I recall seeing a business with a sign that mentioned something about them having a business page on Myspace.

There's a local business around here that puts up signs that say to "Please Google <name-of-business>.com to find us online!" Duh. You just gave us the URL of your web site, why do we need to Google it?

UnfriendlyFire wrote:

It would be ironic if the business lost control of that domain and someone else takes it for their own usage.

just brew it! wrote:

There's a local business around here that puts up signs that say to "Please Google <name-of-business>.com to find us online!" Duh. You just gave us the URL of your web site, why do we need to Google it?

The Egg wrote:

A good 70% of the general public doesn't understand the distinction. On too many occasions, I've told someone to "type 'whateverurl.com' in the address bar", only to see them entering it into a Google search box. When I tell them "No...type the actual address into the address bar", I get a crazed and confused look, like I've just told them to remove their exhaust manifold.

Captain Ned wrote:

I have a co-worker who WILL NOT directly enter any URL; he will only click on a link after he's Googled it. Our little group is exempt from any/all Web filtering/tracking but he still maintains this behaviour. He used to work for MBNA in their credit card operation, so I have to think that MBNA is pretty damn draconian.