OT: My Vote on Fairlite -- I demand a recount :-)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:43:29PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I've seen things like Mark described happen to people I don't normally
> consider stupid (e.g me when my program that checks for missing user home
> directories, and fixes their permissions didn't check to see where the home
> directory was -- and started merrily doing a ``chmod -R username: /'', not
> exactly what I wanted :-).

Sloppy coder.  :-)

> On the other hand, I've had to deal with customers who complained that
> their floppy disk drive was bad, only to find their disks conveniently
> stored by the computer -- held to the side of a file cabinet with
> refrigerator magnets.
> 
> There is, however, a big difference between stupidity and ignorance.
> Ignorance is curable while stupidity generally isn't (sometimes I wish it
> were more frequently terminal).

And it's often difficult to tell which is causing the problem.

Cheers,
-- jra
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