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I think that the most likely explanation for the kebab-case part is a navigation path of some sort.
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dojo.byId('html;------sites------dailywtf------comments------index.html;;12').setAttribute('isFrist','true');
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It could be generated from some kind of physical file structure or (poorly done) sitemap.
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Clearly you have no VAX/VMS in your background --- ";12" means the twelfth version of that element ID.
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Man, now I'm so mad at myself for not remembering that! I was the last graduating class to have classes which used the VAX mainframe when I was in college! I thought the file versioning features were actually quite cool! (And when I worked Helldesk, got quite tired of students who stored their final term paper on a single floppy disk and came in in a panic when the disk died, as they often did- Norton could mostly save their asses, but c'mon, we gave you network storage! USE IT)
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The first time I saw an ad for the movie The Purge, the initial thought which ran through my head was "set the PU*RGE symbol on student accounts to include /KEEP=3". Not that I have any nightmarish memories, nope.
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Perhaps it is my many decades of being exposed to idiots and computer illiterates. Or perhaps I just newer suffered fools gladly. But honestly I do not understand how you can be so emotionally investment into the fact some other fool lost all their data.
You did all you needed to when you gave them the tools. If they fail to use them and than suffer for it that's hardly your problem. And unlike in an office setting where you have to coddle idiot coworkers, management is not going to shout at you if a random student fails a class due to a dead floppy.
If I had been in your place I'd just have calmly told them that no, recovery was not possible and yes, all their work is indeed irrevocably lost and yes, indeed, they will likely fail the class because of it. And that would have been the end of it. Even if some sort of recovery was possible I would not have bothered trying.
All I would have done is to put up my best emotionless face and point them to the network storage and say "Tough break kid. Better luck next time." And I dare say, I would have taken no small amount of pleasure in watching them break down afterward.
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I mean, I was working helldesk. My job was to provide what support I could. We frequently couldn't recover the data, but we had a disk doctor program so why not use it?
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Remember, kids: The VAX was a minicomputer. The term "mainframe" usually refers to IBM /360 and its descendants and lookalikes (and as a technical term for a specific part of the computer, the "main frame", on its predecessors). Read more info in your LOGIN.COM;1 before PURGE.
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Well no. The VAX-11/780 certainly was, but the range was eventually extended to include machines that Digital, t least, considered to be mainframes (VAX 9000).
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Oh good grief, that id looks like some degenerate (is there any other kind?) BEM naming bullshit fallout. I bet you that either some of those between-dashes are by happenstance empty strings and could be fileadmin-visited-hover-fullmoon-mobile, or the components themselves can have dashes.