From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:08:26 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] hello, world In-Reply-To: References: <1324818619.20775.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20111226211145.GA1335@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: When I worked at a university, one of our linux web servers crashed one day. In place of /dev/null was a history file. The last entry? mv .bash_history /dev/null Ah, script kiddies... On Dec 26, 2011 3:28 PM, "A. P. Garcia" wrote: > 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: