iPod Nano

[Craig Routledge]

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:42:05AM -0400, Craig Routledge wrote:
> > ... and don't feel bad about messing up your system.  When I was
> > playing around with Linux for the first time, I didn't have much
> > disk space and was looking for stuff to remove.  This was the SLS
> > distribution in 1992 at kernel version 0.99.something.  I was
> > merely playing with UNIX at home because it seemed cool in those
> > days just to *have* such a thing.  Read the documentation?  Don't
> > be silly.  I was having far too much fun doing juvenile things
> > like logging in several times and looking at the "w" and "who"
> > output.  For some bizarre reason I thought proc was only involved
> > in the installation process.  So I did an "rm -Rf /proc"
> > 
> > Strangely enough, the system didn't like that and I had to do a
> > complete re-install.

On 2007-11-05 09:40, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Oh lovely.  I bet there are symlinks in /proc/somepid to somewhere else
> on the system important which would have caused no end of havok. :)

Yeah, it's even better than the half-an-hour I spent trying to get X to 
compile before realising that I had installed binary packages.  That was 
the first program I ever tried to compile in C and under UNIX.  Good 
choice, huh?  After that, I hit the books and managed to calculate my 
monitor's scan line timings successfully after triple-checking the results. 
That was the only thing that really worried me because I knew I could 
actually destroy the hardware.

I learned alot in my early Linux days by doing strange and dangerous things 
with throwaway installations.  Of course, now that I actually use Linux for 
all my computing needs, I read the instructions before running new commands 
as root.  It takes all the horrifying fun out of it.  :^)


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