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May 11th, 2009

unixronin: Lion facepalm (Facepalm)
Monday, May 11th, 2009 08:11 am

"A multi-gigahertz Athlon processor plus a tiny shell script with a minor syntax oversight can fork-bomb with terrifying speed."  Four thousand additional /bin/bash processes spawned in the two seconds or so before procmeter3 stopped responding...  the machine rebooted about twenty seconds later.

The error?  Oh, I had the script echo a usage string, "cool | uncool | recool", and forgot to quote it...

unixronin: Lion facepalm (Facepalm)
Monday, May 11th, 2009 07:06 pm

Our thanks for bailing GM out? They’re going to roughly double the number of jobs exported to China, Mexico and Korea.

Yeah, that’s really going to help the economy.

Let the bastards fail. They got themselves into this mess. We can't keep throwing good money after bad forever.

Oh, wait, I forgot. It's not really what you could call "good money", is it? It's probably still wet from the presses...