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I typed "rm /tmp/ *"

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 5:32

And the Unix filth did it. Without moving files to trash can. And there is no way to get anything back, because WORSE IS BETTER and the the shitty Unix unlinks everything even when filesystem has enough free space. Why? Why Unix cant die and be replaced with a good OS?

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:20

UNIX™ can't into Unicode or sane user interfaces

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:23

>>41
Define ``sane''. Windows 8 or LoseThos?

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:23

Hey guys, I threw my hard drive into a fire and now I can't retrieve my files.
Whoever invented hard drives is an idiot.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:24

>>42
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:25

>>40
SSD's shouldnt fail that quickly, because they have no moving parts. So any failure will indicate a breach of manufacturing process.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:27

>>43
The NSA can. Shoulda used thermite.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:29

>>38,40
Agreed. UNIX™ is better because it wastes more time and makes me feel like a true UNIX hackerⓇ.

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Suck it, Win$hit faggots! Im better than U!

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:37

>>47
How does *nix ``waste time''?

It's ironic considering the only time I ever use Windows is to help my roommates troubleshoot their performance problems. Not to mention the constant BSoD that was preventing my landlord from checking his email for three days.

Windows sure is a timesaver !

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:46

Dear All
Today I accidentaly removed my home directory which contains no. of other directories having my work done in last 3 years.
I used the command rm -rf * .
I am really confused as to what to do.
I looked for the problem in the google got some links pertaining to my problem, but got no solution.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:50

zsh prompts me whenever I do rm *. It's pretty annoying, but I hardly ever do rm * because then I'd be left with a useless empty directory I need to get rid of.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:52

>>50
Exactly! "rm *" is completely useless, yet Unix still allows it, just so you can you yourself in the foot.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 17:56

>>51
It's not completely useless. If you're poking around in a cache directory and decide you want to empty it, rm * is exactly what you want.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:01

>>52
poking around in a cache directory...
Yet another design flaw! System should clean its caches itself, when it needs space. I.e. if your webserver has a big log file and storage device is out of space, webserver should wrap log around. But no, a Unix webserver will just crash, damaging the log file in most cases and leaving database inconsistent.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:04

>>44
UTF-32 is not a user interface.

>>45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:04

>>51
Yes, Unix ``allows'' me to do what I want. Terrible ! I'd much rather use an OS that tells me ``no, you are no allowed to delete these files because you're probably just a mouthbreathing faggot who doesn't know what the fuck you're doing, like >>1-san ! How about a nice game of solitaire?''

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:06

>>53
Yet another design flaw! System should clean its caches itself, when it needs space.
Says the faggot who deleted his home directory trying to clear /tmp, which is managed by the system.

Retards these days.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:09

>>54
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear
Exactly why OS shouldnt delete files, when it doesnt need to.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:11

>>55
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

they are in the order of importance.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:12

>>53
It doesn't have to be a system cache. Programs have their own caches. It might be a program that you're working on (this is a programming board after all). If I'm working on a program and I change the schema of the cache files, I have to clear the old cache files by hand.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:15

>>59
It might be a program that you're working on
The program shouldnt reinvent the wheel and just use system's cache API, the same way it uses unlink(), instead of writing directly to HDD, as many older programs did.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:16

>>57
Deleting a file removes the reference to that file.

Moving a file changes the reference to the file.

Please explain how latter is more efficient than the former.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:20

>>61
Deleting a file removes the reference to that file.
Yep. Unix does this just so you wont be able to get your file back.

Moving a file changes the reference to the file.
Unix does this just so your storage device wears faster.

Please explain how latter is more efficient than the former.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure#Confluently_persistent

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:22

>>62
...

Please explain how (you think) Windows moved and deletes files.

This should be good.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:31

>>63
Windows is a shitty Unix clone.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:37

>>64
Name one actively developed and widely used operating system other than Unix that isn't a Unix clone.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:43

>>65
That is the problem. I'm forced to eat this crap.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 18:54

>>66
Why not write your own operating system? That way you wouldn't have to use a Unix clone, and we wouldn't have to put up with your whining about operating systems that actually do what you tell them to.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:07

>>67
1. I wont find investors.
2. If I find investors, they will be Jewish and I dont want to deal with the Jews.
3. I dont want to spend my whole life, designing an OS. I have more fun stuff to do.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:11

investors
You're doing it wrong.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:25

>>68
You do not need investors.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:29

>>68
Then eat you crap! tdavis

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:30

>>29,55
Typical Unixer responses. In the hands of a genius, even a toy like Unix can be useful. Most users aren't geniuses. Most Unixers aren't geniuses either (some just think they are). Unix is full of buffer overflows and gotchas because it was not designed to be used. It was designed to be played with. It's like building a car that falls apart on purpose to attract mechanics. Unix is for people who think it's better to fix other people's bugs in the OS than to work on their own projects, who think it's more fun to edit header files so they can get graphics drivers to work with their kernel than to play an actual game.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:36

*THE* classic Unix horror story
http://www.lug.wsu.edu/node/414
If these guys used VMS on their VAX instead of Unix, they wouldn't have had this problem.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 19:37

>>2-73
YHBT

Fuck you, >>1-san.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 20:01

>>73
If they used VMS instead of Unix, they wouldn't have had any files to delete.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 20:13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/documentation/pdf/ovms_731_rms.pdf
Do you know what else real OSes have that Unix doesn't? Indexed files.
A fast hash table or B-Tree as part of the filesystem, accessible by all programs. Some versions let you run SQL queries against the filesystem. Who needs to use text files as databases when you have an OS that makes handling binary files just as easy?

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 20:14

dubs GET!

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 20:16

>>70
Any serious commercial project needs investors, because it needs a ton of experts in different fields.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 20:29

>>72
Typical Windowser response. Unix is just a toy. The entire internet and the web and the whole entire infrastructure that depends on Unix is just a really big toy. The billions of dollars that flow through Silicon Valley is just play money. All those high paying jobs that require Unix skills are just hobbies. But my vidya gayman machine is serious fucking business !!

Please just go back to /g/.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-28 21:59

>>76
Who needs to use text files as databases when you have an OS that makes handling binary files just as easy?
Probably people who need portability across platforms.
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