From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:28:31 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] hello, world In-Reply-To: <20111226211145.GA1335@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <1324818619.20775.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20111226211145.GA1335@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 08:10:04AM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > > Rather a nice tribute to Dennis and C, published > > in the New York Times Magazine: > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-lives-they-lived.html?ref=magazine#view=dennis_ritchie > > > Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question > > though: what command would "bring the system down"? > anything that consumes too many resources, i suppose. the morris worm would have several copies of itself running on the same machine running a password cracker, using up all the cpu and bringing the system to its knees. hog too much memory and you could run into thrashing. even more evil things may include a fork bomb, perhaps? or emacs? ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: