Coworker1: Does anyone else hear a Gundam walking around outside?
Coworker2: Yeah, or an Eva.
Me: …or an A.G.W.S.
Coworker1: …or Mechagodzilla
Coworker2: Ooh… good Mechagodzilla or bad old Mechagodzilla?
Coworker1: Either.
Man 1: Man I want a wizard beard so bad
Man 2: You gotta have determination to become a wizard. That’s why you will end up taking the lazy road and going lich.
Man 1: Yep. Liches have no beards.
Man 2: …or much face for that matter.
Someone I used to work with once inadvertently taught a very valuable lesson to a new Linux user who they were on the phone with. He told the user to run a command to remove a directory with some files in it located in their home folder. They were already in their home folder, so he asked them to run:
rm -rf folder_with_files
The customer ran the command with an asterisk thinking they were being clever and saving themselves time typing.
rm -rf part_of_folder_name *
They meant to run something a bit different.
rm -rf part_of_folder_name*
That space meant that they were actually listing two things to delete:
1. A folder that didn’t exist, because the whole folder name was not typed out.
2. Everything else.
Since they were in their home directory, this wiped out their whole home folder.
Let this be a warning to new Linux users.
Rm doesn’t have an undo.
And listen to what you’re being told when you call support.
“I’m using open says-you Linux.”
“…”
“But I have Windows 7, isn’t that 64 bit?”
“…”
“Dude, Microsoft is not responsible for your inability to CLICK THE MOUSE!”
“Blaming Microsoft makes sense so often that it just sounds stupid when it’s used as a scapegoat for incompetence.”