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you mean that rm -r has a use other than trolling linux noob forums?

you mean that rm -r has a use other than trolling linux noob forums?

You evil bas***d and I thought you were one of the truer Christians

Where in the 10 commandments does it say "Thou shalt not pwn teh noobs"? Where in the beatitudes does it say "Blessed are the noobs, for they shall be saved from pwnage"?

09:45
(09:45:13 AM) orwell_42: hey, I think it's just about time to see how OS X responds to rm -rf
(09:46:02 AM) Fuzzy: nods
(09:46:13 AM) orwell_42: my backup should finish in a minute
(09:46:22 AM) Fuzzy: as in, a few minutes, or today, or tomorrow
(09:46:23 AM) Fuzzy: ah
(09:46:31 AM) orwell_42: and then I install a stripped-down new OS X
(09:46:37 AM) orwell_42: with none of the bundled apps
(09:48:36 AM) orwell_42: well, actually, now 9 minutes or so until all the files are completely transferred into my external hd
(09:48:46 AM) orwell_42: then the Leopard will die
09:55
(09:55:04 AM) orwell_42: all right, I'm sitting at a root terminal and I'm bored of this OS
(09:57:52 AM) orwell_42: it seems to be going more slowly than in Ubuntu
(09:58:34 AM) orwell_42: ha!
(09:58:48 AM) orwell_42: it's showing the gigabytes of free hard drive space increasing as stuff gets deleted
(09:59:15 AM) Fuzzy: interesting!
(09:59:20 AM) orwell_42: and the --no-preserve-root option wasn't necessary
(09:59:26 AM) orwell_42: plain old rm -rf / does it just fine
(09:59:33 AM) Fuzzy: that is a surprise
(09:59:52 AM) orwell_42: well, they haven't done a great job of keeping up to date with upstream *nix development
(09:59:55 AM) Fuzzy: so there you go. linux is more safe than osx
10:00
(10:00:11 AM) orwell_42: aw...
(10:00:26 AM) Fuzzy: hmm?
(10:00:30 AM) orwell_42: it didn't delete /dev
(10:00:35 AM) orwell_42: "resource busy"
(10:01:08 AM) Fuzzy: it shouldnt. those are the drives, mouse, monitor
(10:01:20 AM) Fuzzy: fake files
(10:01:32 AM) orwell_42: lol, my Applications folder got deleted
(10:01:39 AM) orwell_42: but I can still browse the web just fine
(10:01:47 AM) Fuzzy: keep talking so that i know when you are gone!
(10:02:13 AM) orwell_42: I think it will be like Ubuntu, it will stay alive as long as what I have in RAM stays there
(10:02:17 AM) Fuzzy: whats left?
(10:02:22 AM) orwell_42: this time, I'm going to reboot and see if it remains
(10:02:26 AM) Fuzzy: k.
(10:02:37 AM) orwell_42: Firefox, thunderbird, Adium, quicksilver
(10:02:39 AM) Fuzzy: is the loss still in progress?
(10:02:50 AM) orwell_42: looks to be
(10:03:02 AM) orwell_42: hang on, I'm gonna quit thunderbird and see if it disappears
(10:03:54 AM) Fuzzy: still with me?
(10:03:59 AM) orwell_42: yeah, I'm here
(10:04:28 AM) orwell_42: Firefox lost its icon, it seems
(10:04:41 AM) orwell_42: ah, and Thunderbird is gone
(10:04:50 AM) orwell_42: once I've closed the app and it's not in RAM, it's gone forever
(10:04:52 AM) Fuzzy: if the deletes finish, we can try the bomb
10:05
(10:05:09 AM) orwell_42: dangit, I forgot to backup my virtual machine
(10:05:14 AM) orwell_42: oh well, I don't need XP anyways
(10:05:57 AM) orwell_42: and apps don't quit properly, they have to be force quit
(10:06:29 AM) Fuzzy: that indicates that they hook into something to stop, rather than having self contained quit code
(10:06:40 AM) orwell_42: it left stuff on my desktop alone, and my downloads folder is still full of crap
(10:06:53 AM) orwell_42: LOL!
(10:07:13 AM) orwell_42: it seemed to be stalled, so I ctrl-c to stop rm -rf /
(10:07:20 AM) orwell_42: and then tried to run it again
(10:07:32 AM) orwell_42: "sh: rm: command not found"
(10:07:48 AM) Fuzzy: probably cannot fork bomb then either
(10:07:59 AM) orwell_42: ls: command not found
(10:08:05 AM) orwell_42: I can still pwd and cd
(10:08:55 AM) orwell_42: all right, the whole system looks pretty desolate, all I've got left are adium and iterm
(10:09:02 AM) orwell_42: I'm going to reboot
(10:09:12 AM) Fuzzy: try the bomb
(10:09:14 AM) orwell_42: once I've got a fresh install, I'll tell you what the reboot showed me
(10:09:16 AM) orwell_42: oh right
(10:09:19 AM) orwell_42: how's it go again?
(10:09:20 AM) Fuzzy: or not
(10:09:26 AM) Fuzzy: your choice.
(10:09:32 AM) Fuzzy: something might be left then
(10:09:43 AM) Fuzzy: ){ :& };:
(10:09:53 AM) orwell_42: it can't even render smilies properly anymore
10:10
(10:10:04 AM) Fuzzy: i was going to ask that
(10:10:08 AM) orwell_42: adios
(10:10:10 AM) Fuzzy: bye
(10:10:16 AM) orwell_42: dammit
(10:10:25 AM) Fuzzy: no forking?
(10:10:30 AM) orwell_42: syntax error near unexpected token ')'
(10:10:43 AM) Fuzzy: hang on. i will find a osx fork bomb
(10:10:45 AM) orwell_42: which was the first character in the fork bomb
(10:12:03 AM) Fuzzy: outta luck i think. that one should work.
(10:12:07 AM) Fuzzy: zsh, right?
(10:12:16 AM) orwell_42: whatever the default shell is in OSX
(10:12:39 AM) Fuzzy: z shell i think. plus apple script
(10:12:51 AM) Fuzzy: we should post this to the apple forums too
(10:13:01 AM) orwell_42: sounds good
(10:13:20 AM) orwell_42: my applications folder is conspicuously absent, so I'm pretty sure when I reboot I won't reconnect to Pidgin
(10:13:28 AM) Fuzzy: ){ :& };:
(10:13:38 AM) Fuzzy: nope. its the same
(10:13:39 AM) orwell_42: so it will be a couple hours before I'm back on, since I have to set everything up again
(10:13:52 AM) Fuzzy: ok. see you then
(10:13:54 AM) orwell_42: later
(10:14:06 AM) orwell_42: (expose and spaces are still running)
10:15
(10:18:01 AM) orwell_42: on my other computer
(10:18:12 AM) orwell_42: filevault tried to do something while I was shutting down
(10:18:20 AM) orwell_42: it won't boot now
(10:18:37 AM) Fuzzy: nods
(10:19:06 AM) orwell_42: the splash screen just cycled over and over
(10:19:24 AM) orwell_42: now I'm loading up my disk for a clean install
10:20
(10:20:05 AM) Fuzzy: it would be handy to be able to peek at the file structure
(10:20:25 AM) orwell_42: yeah, but I don't think I can do that from the OSX disk
(10:20:41 AM) orwell_42: though I could just toss in a livecd
(10:22:23 AM) orwell_42: wait, I found a terminal
(10:23:38 AM) Fuzzy: when i wreck my two linux installs, i will have a third on disk
(10:23:56 AM) orwell_42: hm I unfortunately named my hd partition with a space
(10:24:08 AM) orwell_42: how do I cd to a directory with a space in its name?
(10:24:26 AM) Fuzzy: underscore
(10:24:40 AM) orwell_42: nope
(10:24:41 AM) Fuzzy: or put it in double quotes
(10:24:56 AM) orwell_42: there it is
10:25
(10:25:24 AM) orwell_42: well, /home is empty
(10:25:28 AM) orwell_42: so is /dev
(10:25:46 AM) orwell_42: ah, there's some stuff in /Users
(10:26:49 AM) orwell_42: mostly everything got deleted, but the downloads folder for my first (administrative) account is somehow intact
(10:27:06 AM) orwell_42: and the shell is bash, btw
(10:27:11 AM) Fuzzy: ok
(10:28:27 AM) Fuzzy: ok. gonna cut and paste the conversation
(10:28:40 AM) Fuzzy: i gotta get to the sunny portion of life
(10:28:52 AM) orwell_42: ttyl
(10:28:56 AM) Fuzzy: bye

Here you go.



This one wasnt as fun.

Orwell has now destroyed an installation of OSX in a similar matter.

Expect to see the movie "Orwell the destroyer" starring Conan the Librarian as this summers block buster.

Then you need a reboot trick!

I could go around installing VNC on people's machines, but I'm pretty sure that crosses the line of legality.