[epistasis]

Whenever I see an unexplained command I don't understand from a random internet forum, I hop onto the production server and run it, just in case it might boost performance. Wouldn't want to miss out on that.

Been doing it since I was 12. It taught me all about the ins and outs of `rm`.

[jimt1234]

Sounds like me back in the early 80s when I used to war dial, and people used to share "active" prefixes. I learned all about the 911 prefix when I set my dialer and went to sleep. About 20 minutes later the cops were banging on my front door. True story; I was in 6th grade, got arrested for it.

[deepriverfish]

wow did you get a record? this is some Hackers(1995) vibe stuff

[jimt1234]

I got taken to juvenile hall, put in a holding area with kids that had stolen cars and stabbed other kids in fights. The funny thing is all these "bad kids" were really cool; we talked about video games (Donkey Kong!). I remember one kid got into a fight with his football coach and broke both the coach's legs. He was a big kid, looked like a grown man. He was pretty much in charge of the holding area. But he was cool as hell, cracked jokes with me. I actually kinda enjoyed the holding area.

Anyway, the officials thought I had just called 911 over and over, like to play a prank. They wouldn't hear anything about my computer or whatever (it was the early 80s). They were pissed. I was kept in the holding area for a few hours, then they let me go home. I was ordered to a bunch of community service, cleaning the parking lots of local parks, stuff like that.

[deepriverfish]

sounds like fun, well except for the community service. I bet you'd be in a lot more of trouble if you did that now

[prerok]

Reminds me of that story from an IRC channel:

A: I have a program that will format your hard drive. I just need your IP.

B: Ok, it's 127.0.0.1

A: Ahahaha, it 56% now! Lol.

A left the chat. Connection reset by peer.