Destroying "only" your home directory (was Re: Newbie question on permissions)

Mon Apr 3 22:46:54 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-03-04 at 22:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> In Unix, a solution like that would be real easy. Install 
> CVS/SVN/whatever and create some user crons based on input from a 
> wizard. When the cron runs, it mounts the usb drive, submits all of ~ 
> to SVN, umounts the usb drive. You don't even need a big red button. 
> With a nice Gtk/Qt front end to do restores. 

Do you ever actually watch a user?  No, really.  I'm serious.  Hearing
someone use "CVS" and "easy" together like that just makes me giggle
uncontrollably.

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