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Celebrity autobiographies are filled to the brim with self-righteous tales of smug oneupmanship. So, forget you had any shame, grab a coffee and a croissant, and tell us your smug tales of when you got one over somebody.

Thanks to Ring of Fire for the suggestion

(, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 12:55)
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We're supposed to think it breaks down as follows:
sudo Do this as superuser, thereby bypassing various safeguards
rm remove
-r recursively through directories
f forcing deletion without asking for confirmation
/. starting with the top most directory/folder.

It's one of these things that people like to claim they did to newbies, though since the default for rm in Ubuntu is also --preserve-root it wouldn't actually work.
(, Sun 6 Feb 2011, 14:45, 1 reply)

I've got the logs to prove it, and I'm sure if you joined ##snus on Freenode, vision would remember. He's still pretty pissed off about it. Of course, text logs don't really mean much if I wanted to be obsessive and doctor them, but as I said, he'll tell you about it.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2011, 4:05, closed)

Looking through them, sudo rm only shows up in past reference to it, so I guess I didn't start loging then. vision still mentions me trashing his install from time to time in them though.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2011, 4:09, closed)

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