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by hermitdev 2554 days ago
Ah, yeah. Takes me back to my college years. I was a sophomore at the time and was running Win2k server release candidates. Had a new freshman brag about having WinME, which was on the 9x kernel. Went back to my room in the dorms amd alternately sent a ping of death. Ping of death would crash him, but a ping flood was a DoS. His computer would hang trying to handle all of the traffic. Rendered the network unusable on my end while I was doing it, but the PC was otherwise fine (i.e. I could play offline games). Proved my point, he was humbled and stopped bragging and I left him alone after my little demonstration.