27 Dec
2011
27 Dec
'11
2:08 a.m.
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" <a.phillip.garcia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Warren Toomey
<wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 08:10:04AM -0500, Norman
Wilson wrote:
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? ;-)
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…
Yes, a good reminder on the power that
programming brings us. A question
though: what command would "bring the system down"?