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Funny Strory About Unexpected Consequences of Software Jokes

1 Comment Published by cjlise March 28th, 2009 in Fun, Software, Web

The referenced post tells the story of a funny command line request to validate a disk format:

http://www.pop.ly/i1y

Yes Mother, I really want to format the hard disk. via kwout

At the end nobody was supposed to use the software part asking the question. But because of a bug in the GUI, user came to use the command line tool and type the funny validation string :-) :

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