I ran across this video the other day and wanted to share with everyone. Think of it as a light way to start off your week without having to think. Enjoy!
James over at http://dazzle.cs.mcgill.ca has come across a humorous, and frightening, Linux command. It’s been dubbed “The Most Dangerous Command”. Take a look! It makes rm -rf / seem like a PG rated horror film…
http://dazzle.cs.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=36
It turns out that your web browser might be unique enough that it can be tracked. Take a break and check out this webpage:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Update: I have written it and scheduled it for Monday. It’ll show up here for those of you who are impatient.
Hello All,
I just wanted to let you know that I’m skipping a day so I can start working on getting a semi-formal review for how Fedora 13 runs on the MacBook Aluminum for Monday. See ya’ll then!
-Derek
PS. For those of you wanting to play along, you’ll need to add the following line to the end of the bootup options (press Tab on the main boot screen):
updates=http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/updates-572488
(via bugzilla.redhat.com)
This is always fun to read, even it it’s old news (I didn’t run across it or even think about it until just this year)! Here’s the very first Linux announcement:
http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html
(Be sure to click on the link. It’s rather fun to see what Linus looked like back in 1991. )
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of HelsinkiHello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and
I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them :-)Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
It’s strange to think that it’s been around that long now. Windows was released in 1985 and Mac OS in 1984. I wonder what 6 or 7 more years will do for Linux and the various desktop environments…