The-Source.com » Stuff I’ve Learned http://www.the-source.com Free and Open Source Software News and Opinion Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:04:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 I own you! http://www.the-source.com/2010/05/i-own-you/ http://www.the-source.com/2010/05/i-own-you/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 09:53:11 +0000 Jason http://www.the-source.com/?p=915 While I’m still knee-deep in setting up my new laptop via Linux From Scratch, let me take a breather to share something I learned which you may or may not already know:

This might scare you.

Say you have a directory that you know you own (sandbox).

Say you try to ls (or cd or otherwise interact) with the directory, but you get one of two things:

  1. “permission denied”, or
  2. a bunch of question marks

Say you didn’t realize what you had removed from the directory file by accident.

You might be pooping too … until you saw your mistake.

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