Re: Linux Is A Bore

From: Max (argos2112_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: 21 Oct 2004 22:42:41 GMT

On 10-17-2004, in comp.os.linux.misc,
Sinister Midget <sinister@stinkfoot.biz> wrote:

> On 2004-10-18, Dan Kumen <spiced@regulous.net> sputtered:
>
>> I thought the toughest part about switching from windows to linux
>> would be learning to edit config files, but it is turning out to
>> be learning to do something other than play with security
>> programs.
>>
>> There are a lot of files that could use some editing, if I want
>> to get more control of the OS, but that is too difficult, and I
>> am doing no more than I can with the gui. It turns out that's
>> pretty much all I want to do - web, email, news, some graphic
>> stuff, so there isn't much distasteful stuff to do.
>>
>> The thing is, I realize now that most of my enjoyment of windows
>> came from installing and playing around with anti-virus and anti-
>> trojan programs, getting the updates, reading about the latest
>> versions, etc.; but with linux, Guarddog was installed, and I
>> installed f-prot, and at this point, I have nothing to do.

> Put some fun back into your computing! Try one or more of these:
>
> 1. Write a script to delete a random file. Make sure it's truly
> random across the entire system. Be certain that it runs with root
> privileges so it will get an important one every now and then.
>
> 2. Put a cron entry in that will reboot the machine, preferably
> during some period of likely heavy use. You can even set it up for
> multiple intervals, such as 0-59/4 for a crash every 15 minutes.
>
> 3. You can take number 2 a step further by radomizing things via
> scripts that can test for certain conditions (possibly machine
> load, for example) and use those periods to reboot things.
>
> 4. Randomly kill the X server.
>
> 5. Create a directory that contains porn pictures, has copies of
> credit and other financial information, etc. Write a script that
> parses your addressbook, extracts an address or three, pulls one
> of the items at random from the above named directory and emails
> the item to the addressee(s).
>
> 6. Fix your lilo or grub configuration files to tell the system
> you have 3 times more memory than you really have. Get rid of all
> swap. Then reboot. Getting rid of swap might not be necessary, but
> it ensures success should the system startup complete
> uneventfully.
>
> Those are good for starters. Use your imagination and you'll have
> just as much fun as you're already accustomed to enjoying.

LOL! A truly historical post ripe for permanent archive!.

Such a shame you didn't continue... There's so much more one could
engineer to automagically corrupt a linux system.

Max 

-- 
This is Linux country my good man, on a quiet night you can
hear the sound of Windows rebooting.