On 8 March 2010 17:05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
All this reminds me of the time I recovered a keyboard that had gone belly-up following a major coffee spill
Then it was fine.
And the iPod buried in ice for most of the winter season ...
http://robulack.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/ipod-emerges-from-ice-and-still-wor...
And it also comes back to me that I once "undid" an "rm -rf *" in / as root.
So I rapidly reached for the reset button. On reboot, everything was still there. On the basis that "rm -rf *" had been running about 10 seconds before I caught on, I reckon I landed on the right side of 2 chances out of 3 ...
Ooh, that's fortunate. I ordinarily try not to interrupt a command even if I've realised belatedly it was a mistake. Very quick thinking tho - not sure I would have had the presence of mind to consider the cache that quickly.
I'll file that story under "things worth knowing that you wish never have cause to know" ...
:)
Peter.