[clug] what passes for entertainment...

[Hal Ashburner]

Ian Munsie wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> Easier:
>> :(){:|:&};:
>>     
> BAD HAL!!! Don't encourage people to crash their computer!
>   
...and there I was thinking I was being nice to the people new to linux. 
Anyone who ran it without first googling it, asking here, looking up 
their shell manuals and working through what it does, asking a friend or 
any other method for finding out what's going on would learn a lesson 
that they would remember and is unlikely to go cold in a hurry. As 
lessons go, that one won't actually do any real damage to desktop, 
laptop or home server machines or data.
Now if you tried it on a production machine described as "Mission 
critical" without knowing what it was (what's with this fashion for 
"missions" anyway?) Then yes, you'd likely be fired. Best get that done 
sooner rather than later if you're in charge of such a machine and don't 
know any better.


if you have no ulimit set then gnome-system-monitor probably won't chart 
the cpu and memory usage spike as it won't get enough cpu to show much.