Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by digi_owl on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:18AM (#15951122)

Makes me think of a story i ran into somewhere about a secretary that had sorted all the files on her office PC in different folders alphabetically.

This was back during the DOS days, and i suspect it was only discovered when she complained that it would no longer start in the morning.

It may well be that said joker had the best of intentions by sorting the keys in the numerical order...

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by roryisok on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:05PM (#15953129)

I've read this seven times now and I just can't understand it. Can you elaborate?

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by detaro on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:09PM (#15953166)

I assume it means that they neatly filed COMMAND.COM in folder "C", and AUTOEXEC.BAT in "A", ... No filesystem permissions or file locking to prevent you from ruining your system in DOS.

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Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse by JdeBP on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:48PM (#15983986)

But judicious use of ATTRIB +H +S did help ameliorate such things somewhat.

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