Windows' one good feature.

/usr/bin/bin/mv /usr/bin/bin/ /

*whistles*

RAID

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RAID

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RAID wouldn''t have helped. Moving directories would''ve been picked up in any sort of mirroring mechanism. Moving them back would''ve been the right answer.

Well, its not like you didn''t backup the scripts to your Windows hard drive...right? You did back up?

alias /usr/bin/mv /usr/bin/mv -i

Linux - the worlds free operating system, assuming your time has absolutely no value.

haha someone who uses linux has to know what he''s doing otherwhise he should use windows, noob


T2k

CVS

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haha someone who uses linux has to know what he''s doing otherwhise he should use windows, noob


T2k

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so, what you mean to say is, when someone has a problem with windows are internet explorer because they don''t know what they are doing, then "Use Linux" is an even MORE crap answer than we already thought?

Mandrake isn''t TOO bad. I haven''t had much experience with anything else, just a little time on Redhat at school (it''s ok, was set up pretty well, unlike my Mandrake box)

If I could get my Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse and my sound card (sound blaster live! value), then I would be in bliss. Don''t worry about checking, I''ve spent countless hours trying to fix it, even finding people with the EXACT same version of Mandrake and the EXACT same mouse.

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If I could get my Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse and my sound card (sound blaster live! value), then I would be in bliss. Don''t worry about checking, I''ve spent countless hours trying to fix it, even finding people with the EXACT same version of Mandrake and the EXACT same mouse.

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What do you need a mouse for in Linux?

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"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"

The same thing you need it for in windows.

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The same thing you need it for in windows.

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Yeah: To hang yourself with the mouse cord when you make a stupid mistake.

If only someone could make an OS that prevented end-user-stupidity. I''d buy that.

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The same thing you need it for in windows.

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Yeah: To hang yourself with the mouse cord when you make a stupid mistake.

If only someone could make an OS that prevented end-user-stupidity. I''d buy that.

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Buy a slab of concrete and put it on your desk, then.

Resist everyone
I am your only friend. Click here for more information.

I''ve done stupid crap like that. Tab complete is a blessing and curse.

ctrl-alt-t (opens new terminal instantly)
less d(tab)e(tab)R(tab)

which goes to

less download/eMame-0.16.5/README

after which I immediately ran (thinking I''d delete the eMame folder)

rm e(tab)

which turned into

rm evolution

*whack* All my email is irretrievably gone. Well most of it. I have backups but damn I felt stupid.

I like to think of it this way. Linux is more user friendly than Windows but in a different way. In Linux, I don''t feel like I have to defend my computer from the barbarian hordes on the Internet. I don''t have to think about stupid greedy people who somehow think I want to buy their crap and that I might be more inclined if they put spyware on my personal property. Things are fast and can be done near instantly if you take the time to be familiar with your system (and what programmer doesn''t?).

<Windows bashing>
well, concidering you would have reinstalled winddows by a couple of times by now the linux reinstallation seems like a fairytale ;-)
</Windows bashing>

Programmer One: Most of them werer backed up. The ones I had been working on for that day (about mins worth) were not.

CPPMaster: No kidding. Who needs a mouse? The ONLY time I use a mouse is for links (lynx sucks).

pwd: whether that would work or not, I don''t know. it doesn''t help much when you can''t even locate ''ls''.

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Linux - the worlds free operating system, assuming your time has absolutely no value.

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Linux - the worlds free operating system, it''s worth every minute you expend on it, assuming your brain is able to handle it.

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pwd: whether that would work or not, I don''t know. it doesn''t help much when you can''t even locate ''ls''.

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Oh, it would have. You''d have to either fully specify the path for all commands that were in that directory initially, or you''d have to fix your path temporarily.

so:

/usr/bin/bin/ls

would have worked, or doing

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/bin

would have allowed things to work almost like normal untill you could get around to moving the directory back to where it was in the first place. (export is built into the shell, so isn''t affected by the change in location of /bin)

I know it''s too late now, since you''ve already reloaded, but if you ever do something similiar, you''ll be prepared.

hmmm.

order of things i''d do if i did that

1. Try specifiying the path explicitly.

2. Boot tomsrtbt off of the one floppy disk it sits on, and mount my partitions, then move it back.

3. Rip out the HD, put in another system. perform the move.

....

999999. reinstall.

OP, you made one mistake by accidently moving your /bin directory. (argueablely, not a huge mistake, since you didn''t delete it) That''s okay. people make mistakes. But you followed it immediately with another one: reinstalling.

Count to ten and think next time.