Posted on 01/25/2019 6:54:36 AM PST by ShadowAce
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Personally, I prefer :(){ :|:& };:
WARNING! Do not try this on a machine you cannot afford to immediately reboot. It's a fork bomb.
Right on! Thank you! The fire is cool it just needs some color. :)
“Wow! ASCII art! Takes me all the way back to my High School days in 1976 when we used Teletype terminals with 300 baud acoustic modems to write programs in BASIC.
Here’s Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII:
https://www.asciimation.co.nz/";
WOW indeed... same time frame,same gear, Borroughs timeshare. Next step was Fortran, poked into punch-cards (that chaff got everywhere), and another timeshare to run class projects....
Cheers!
KYPD
“Wow! ASCII art! Takes me all the way back to my High School days in 1976 when we used Teletype terminals with 300 baud acoustic modems to write programs in BASIC.
I tell the college age set about this and they look at me like I am from another planet (OK, true but different discussion) until I show them pictures of the setup.
Wow ... I remember a lot of that stuff from the 1990s.
Hah! Back in about 1994 or so, I attended a week-long system administrator class at Silicon Graphics. They re-imaged the workstations for each new session. At the end of the class, I followed your steps (1) and (2), then step (3) was “# rm -rfv *”.
After about 2 minutes, the workstation was no longer responsive to keyboard or mouse input. Took a lot longer for the display to die.
C'mon,admit it. We've all done it.
I’ve been watching a bunch of You Tube videos with guys getting back at the Indian Tech Support scammers, Syskey’ing their machines and putting other viruses on them. It’s so fun when they blow up at them.
Reminds me of the things one could do with a computer in the early 1970s.
Oh man. I’m going to need a cigarette. Whew! So much cool geekery.
For the Bookmark and THE WIN!
Thank you!
“Yeah but did you have an IBM Selectric typewriter as your input keyboard, “monitor” and output?! (to go along with that lightning fast 300 baud acoustic coupler modem)”
We had the “IBM Serektrik-correktrik” with either the white out tape, and later the adhesive tape that pulled the strike out.
That acoustic coupler (modems in general) was a mystery. It was years before someone clearly explained modulate-demodulate!
KYPD
If you’ve got ‘expect’ installed, see if you have a copy of superbeer.exp.
It does ‘99 bottles of beer on the wall’. (takes a while to run. Once it gets down into the 50’s or so, it’s really funny to watch.
$ superbeer.exp
99 bottles of beer on the wall,
99 bottles of beer,
take one down, pass it around,
98 bottles of beer on the wall.
98 bottles of beer on the wall,
98 bottles of beer,
take one down, pass it around,
Not at all. By default, yes spews out endless y's and newlines. If you have a console application that repeatedly asks for confirmation, you can pipe yes into it to answer "y" automatically every time. (Though these days a lot of applications also have a force-yes option at the command line, making the yes program unnecessary.)
I tried that once on a Linux VM I was finished with.
I expected the system just to eventually crash. Instead, it was surprising and somewhat amusing to see the window manager break down piece by piece before the whole system finally died.
apt-get --yes install bb
then try running it.
Let me know what you think.
sure... What will I be installing here? Will I be able to get myself out of it considering my limited knowledge of this?
It’s my own abilities I don’t trust here if I don’t understand it once it’s loaded. Graphics? interface? lol
Novelty like above?
Yeah—kind of a ASCII capability demo. Pretty cool to watch.
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
It wants me to open as root. Please do not be offended but I’m not sure I want to do that for a novelty. lol
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