I knew someone who, in the days of Windows 3.1, managed to accidentally invoke "format c:" from inside Microsoft Word - I was in the same room as them when they did it and heard the cries for help. What they couldn't do was explain to me what they had done to accompish such a feat.

Pool of Radiance had a bug where the uninstaller would wipe your hard drive. Oops.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1....

It's a DELTREE on %whateveritis%

and the entire windows directory, and the entire users directory, and ...

Windows users that aren't privy to *nix culture generally don't find all of the "rm -rf ..." jokes all that funny. They get it, but it's sort of like telling a german joke in English to an English speaker only; they get it, but it looses it's humor if you aren't privy to the culture.

no, they got it. they just didn't get why its funny. I guess you have to fuck up rm -rf at least once to get these sort of jokes.

it's like explaining jeep jokes to non-jeep owners.

Why would he need to explain it to the windows that are using his coworkers?

Also, it's very unclear to me what that the situation you are describing entails.

/s

Grammatically, your sentence is no less ambiguous.

"my windows-using coworkers" would be a better fix.

"...my coworkers who use Windows" makes more sense.

my windows-using coworkers.