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Wednesday, May 02, 2001, at 06:22PM

By Eric Richardson

I broke it. One errant keystroke and the Redhat installer leaves me with a totally wiped out system. As I sit here running twm and staring at a blank background, I'm left with a very harsh reminder that one keystroke can make an enormous difference.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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