27 Dec
2011
27 Dec
'11
3:28 a.m.
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"?