[ale] Linux the $400 Operating System

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net> writes:

[...]

    Matthew> The article reminds me of someone who shoots himself in
    Matthew> the foot, then blames the gun.

        Yup.  If you don't want something deleted:

          a) keep a backup copy of it,

        or more directly,

          b) don't tell the system to delete it.


        If you constantly find yourself doing `b', then you need to
find one of those newbie-crutch replacements for rm which move things
to a `Trash' folder before they're really unlinked.  Or use a GUI file
manager (konqueror, nautilus) which does the same.


        Another related recent anectdote from an IRC acquaintance:

        There was much muttering and questioning of the reliability of
PostgreSQL because someone dropped a database on a production system
which wasn't being backed up at all.  Rather than worrying that
they're not backing up crucial data they choose to place the blame on
the software being used.


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