[clug-talk] Bashing Windows out of ignorance

[Dafydd Crosby]

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>> While someone was creative enough to fill up the hard drive on the 8.04
>> server I set up, the box is still running, apache is still serving and no
>> one has yet to PWN the box. There is some crazy cat process melting a whole
>> in the CPU right now but it just keeps serving ... sort of :)
>>
>>     
> That is creative.  Someone is probably trying to dump everything in
> memory (swap + RAM).
>
>   
That would be my coworker and I :-D

I was filling up HDD space with
cat /dev/urandom > ~/BIGFILE &

My coworker was running a fork bomb, which they talk about in 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/ (they also 
show how to prevent it)

>> Oh, and Gustin, I know you're not a Windows lover, Dafydd vouched for ya :)
>>
>>     
> I guess I owe him a beer.
>
>   
I'm fine with that :-P

-Dafydd