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40hz:
There's a great video making the rounds in the Linux community.

One of the most famous (or infamous) commands in the NIX world is running rm -rf / as a superuser.

For those of you who aren't fans of Unix or Linux, this command basically tells the system to remove all files and directories starting at the root directory and not ask for any confirmation.

Ever wonder what would happen if some fool actually did run it?  :tellme:

Enter the Fool. Check out this video and watch Linux magically disappear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ

 8)

cranioscopical:
I tried that under Vista 64-bit and my machine rebooted with XP Pro 32-bit installed.   :o

40hz:
I tried that under Vista 64-bit and my machine rebooted with XP Pro 32-bit installed.   :o
-cranioscopical (April 10, 2009, 03:51 PM)
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Wow! You were lucky. I tried it with WinXP-SP3 and I rebooted into a copy of Visicalc running under CP/M! :P

cranioscopical:
I tried that under Vista 64-bit and my machine rebooted with XP Pro 32-bit installed.   :o
-cranioscopical (April 10, 2009, 03:51 PM)
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Wow! You were lucky. I tried it with WinXP-SP3 and I rebooted into a copy of Visicalc running under CP/M! :P
-40hz (April 10, 2009, 07:10 PM)
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 ;D ;D  (I think you might have been the more lucky of us. Those were the days!)

40hz:
...Those were the days! ...
-cranioscopical (April 10, 2009, 09:23 PM)
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Yes and no.  ;)
(Like most things in life. ;D)

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