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by inopinatus
5023 days ago
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I went to university (Edinburgh) with the author of dd.sh. I remember him as a crazy Italian in the classic mold. As a first-year undergraduate in the computer science department he convinced me to forkbomb the department's main 30-way computer server. What he didn't mention was that the head of department was running a bunch of stuff on there at the time. My resulting heart rate was eclipsed only by the load average on the host, which if memory serves pegged at 512. Now I knew how the sorcerer's apprentice felt. In a demonstration of genius he then proceeded to shutdown this particular forkbomb, using - you guessed it - only dd and sh ... |
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