May 15, 2003

dumbass attack

/duhm´as @·tak´/ n.

[Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.g., typing rm -r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:49 AM

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