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Old 03-05-2017, 07:38 PM   #5
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I would love to hear the details about what actually happened with Amazons data center... betting we will never know.
I read somewhere on a tech blog that they were trying to resolve some sort of issue with one server, some one fat fingered a UNIX command and that typo did the damage.

rm *.* instead of rm *.tmp for example.

Which brought to mind a couple of Gary Larsen's Far Side cartoons:
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