The OnosecondWired magazine once defined the 'onosecond' as the time between hitting 'send' and realising that you really didn't mean to send that to your granny.
What inappropriate email/text/photo have you sent to wrong people? Are they speaking to you any more?
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chthonic, Thu 26 May 2005, 10:15)
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Old job, SQL programmertypes "delete.file sub-order" instead of "delete sub-order" (on a selection)
Pressed return, an immediate ohonosecond than an increasingly sickening sinking feeling as the system paused for twenty minutes and deleted two and a half years of sub orders.
Tape backups you say? Unknown to us, the tape drive had been damaged, and reporting successful (but unsuccessful) backups for a week.
Ouch. got in deep, deep trouble for that. Still, it made then pull their fingers out and get the rollback command implements.
/geek
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