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- jake6730, on 02/11/2008, -10/+208DUGG lol its actually my video :D
- mckooiker, on 02/11/2008, -2/+197Survived in your RAM.....
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -4/+132Don't be exagerated, that command doesn't wo
- drph1l, on 02/11/2008, -8/+136im in ur linuxz deletin' ur rootz
- camintmier, on 02/11/2008, -3/+130Now if only we could sudo rm -rf people...
- whereisian, on 02/11/2008, -8/+128that was more entertaining than it should have been
- whiteknives, on 02/11/2008, -1/+94Kitty must be root.
- NoCt1, on 02/11/2008, -5/+97the best part im sitting in a linux class and got our teacher to run this command claiming i didnt know and obviously he didnt know.. Clas is dismissed.. W00t W00t...
- dallen, on 02/11/2008, -0/+80It was like a nerd snuff film
- Hortinstein, on 02/11/2008, -0/+75# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"
- daines88, on 02/11/2008, -0/+71We can... it's just a bit messy.
- marrstu, on 02/11/2008, -2/+66 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility. - doctechnical, on 02/11/2008, -0/+62Wow, way to stick it to the man. Did you steal some office supplies too?
- nooreazy, on 02/11/2008, -1/+62I bet some punk is gonna spam that in the ubuntu IRC channels
- podgey22, on 02/11/2008, -0/+53Yes, you're a tit.
- MikeEx, on 02/11/2008, -3/+56Reminds me of the time I went to delete a folder in my home directory after extracting a package file there... "/home/mike/bin"
I opened the console into my home directory and typed...
sudo rm -rf /bin
:( - 16777216, on 02/11/2008, -5/+56Over wrights ALL data on the first hard drive with random noise.
- kimcheefreak17, on 02/11/2008, -5/+55I'm sorry, but to the Linux illiterate, what does that command do?
- obijohn, on 02/11/2008, -3/+52Once I tried sudo rm -rf /home
Parents were not amused. - VyPR, on 02/11/2008, -2/+50im in ur computer steelin ur linux
- voetsjoeba, on 02/11/2008, -0/+46Is that at all like overwriting?
- MacEnvy, on 02/11/2008, -1/+42Must be a good one. I wish I'd had a Linux class when I was in school. Sounds like the teacher's pretty though if he didn't know what that would do, and he's teaching the class.
- gandhii, on 02/12/2008, -0/+40errr... rm being one of the most basic commands and all, I kinda wonder about what your teacher is actually capable of teaching..
- Phatt138, on 02/11/2008, -0/+38I wouldn't worry about most Linux users being unaware of what the command does. Now, you could get them to enter it other ways, but something tells me that "type 'sudo rm -rf /' and your computer will speed up" was probably played out about 10 years ago.
Of course, there's a sucker born every minute, so maybe you're right. - ConradDanger, on 02/11/2008, -2/+39this just seems cruel ...
- Wronghead, on 02/11/2008, -10/+47I think I can safely file this away under "things I knew over a decade ago."
Amusing none the less. - Magnus150, on 02/12/2008, -2/+38In soviet russia, rm -rf YOU!!!
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -2/+38I did this with Mac OS X Tiger - I threw the System folder in the trash and entered my password and it went bye bye. It still ran fine for about a minute, then menus started having the blocks instead of text, then the dock, desktop and etc went away, then dashboard and expose continued to work until it eventually kernel paniced after 30 minutes.
- omenmedia, on 02/11/2008, -1/+33Ha ha, very good... for those who may be going "huh?", Hortinstein made a sort of command-line Russian roulette.
- blackjack75, on 02/11/2008, -0/+29Aside from the screen recording being made easier, using a VM has the pleasant advantage of not destroying all your files for the sake of a stupid video.
- blackjack75, on 02/11/2008, -3/+31#4)...
#5) Profit? - jake6730, on 02/12/2008, -0/+27there you go smart ass
- halofourteen, on 02/11/2008, -0/+26I assumed it was a VM.
- jake6730, on 02/11/2008, -1/+27http://www.in-sect.com/scr/cute_cat.jpg
- PawFox, on 02/11/2008, -1/+27The command "sudo" is allow you to run root commands as a normal user
rm = remove
-rf = recursively deletes files
/ = the whole system
you only run "rm -rf /" as root to get the full effect. - rexbron, on 02/11/2008, -3/+27Meh, dd -if /dev/random -of / would have been more entertaining.
- calbff, on 02/11/2008, -2/+26No idea why you're being dugg down, I had no clue either.
- MacEnvy, on 02/11/2008, -1/+23Oops, missed a word in there. "Teacher's pretty bad" was what I was going for.
- lonemarauder, on 02/11/2008, -3/+25The video is a thumb in the face to intellectual property law. Microsoft patented the ability to delete all files on the hard drive with the "deltree c:*.*" command. Linux hackers successfully duplicated the functionality with "rm -rf /", thereby infringing upon the patent. The video is an inside joke - that intellectual property pirates had successfully duplicated the deltree functionality. According to the terms of the patent, anyone deleting their hard drive owes $50 to Microsoft. It just further demonstrates how there's no such thing as a free lunch. The work of Microsoft engineers to perfect this capability in modern computer systems is being uncompensated. Moreover, by broadcasting instructions for doing it, the video maker has violated the DMCA, which outlaws the dissemination of devices or technology used to violate intellectual property laws. I don't understand why people seem to think they can just go around deleting files for free.
- wellyuk, on 02/11/2008, -9/+31So did you put Vista on instead?
- beatryder, on 02/11/2008, -2/+24Dugz 4 teh kitteh
- bushawa, on 02/11/2008, -0/+18Yeah, do you remember Harold? I thought so ;)
- InsaneMachine, on 02/11/2008, -0/+17you probably want /dev/urandom It would take a really long time otherwise (urandom is pseudo random number generator, while random is more random, and is calculated completly different but my point is that it is very slow for large jobs)
- bitspace, on 02/11/2008, -0/+16I think you discovered a drawback to sudo. It gets people in the habit of typing it before any shell command.
You don't (shouldn't) have to sudo to remove files from your home directory. - azbmr, on 02/12/2008, -0/+16Linux assumes that if you are root, you know what the hell you are doing. It will shoot itself in the head without a second thought if you ask it to.
- negativefx, on 02/11/2008, -4/+19man rm
man sudo - cbergstrom, on 02/12/2008, -1/+16Wow. crossmr got completely owned.
- coit, on 02/11/2008, -2/+17What was that running on an Asus EEE or something. Tiny screen.
- jj101, on 02/11/2008, -0/+15we got you.
- swab, on 02/11/2008, -0/+15Why would they have to reinstall? Do you have root access?
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