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Apr 23, 2016

Termites eat currency notes kept in bank locker - to be careful next time!

A woman found her currency of Rs 1,00,000/- kept in a bank locker was consumed by termites.
As per bank, it can be replaced only if damaged in fire or stolen. But, bank accepted application for possible replacement.

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Apr 19, 2016

Intense heat, poor construction led to collapse?

Intense heat, poor construction led to collapse?:  A senior structural engineer and professor at JNTU, Hyderabad who was part of a number of committees related to fire accidents said on the incident, “Beyond a certain temperature, the steel melts, causing collapse of slab,...".

Similar reason was found during collapse of twin towers of US WTC, long ago.

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Demand for punishment to the guilty in metro construction accident

Government official desires jail term for persons responsible for the accidents.

See the link here.

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Apr 15, 2016

Something we should learn - Man runs wrong code - deletes his company (by mistake)

Owner of a small hosting provider, ran the command, "rm -rf" causing entire data to be deleted and is unable to restore.

rm stands for remove
r tells to delete everything in the directory
f tells to ignore warning messages during deletion

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/14/1542246/man-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code

This is a lesson to know well before doing something. The forum he consulted informed him that unless backups are available, nothing can be done in this case.

http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm-rf

A comment on backups is as follows:

Backups need to be offsite, offline, and incremental. That you could delete them from your main server means they weren't what I would call backups. – Tim 



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