Comments on: Pope and Bacon a dangerous combo http://pingswept.org/2007/10/27/pope-and-bacon-a-dangerous-combo/ Taking the zen out of citizen journalism since the 1900's Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mike Goelzer http://pingswept.org/2007/10/27/pope-and-bacon-a-dangerous-combo/comment-page-1/#comment-35265 Mike Goelzer Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:50:31 +0000 http://pingswept.org/2007/10/27/pope-and-bacon-a-dangerous-combo/#comment-35265 FUX0r. It really should be <b>`dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda'</b> to zero out the entire disk. But then you might lose your precious Windows partition too. Oh my! Mike Winner of "Slowest C/C++ Programmer Ever" award three years running! FUX0r. It really should be `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda’ to zero out the entire disk. But then you might lose your precious Windows partition too. Oh my!

Mike
Winner of “Slowest C/C++ Programmer Ever” award three years running!

]]> By: Mike Goelzer http://pingswept.org/2007/10/27/pope-and-bacon-a-dangerous-combo/comment-page-1/#comment-35264 Mike Goelzer Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:46:12 +0000 http://pingswept.org/2007/10/27/pope-and-bacon-a-dangerous-combo/#comment-35264 <b>`rm -rf /'</b> is so hopelessly Multics! Come on, Stafford, get with the program. This is 2008, not 1978. These days, true l33t h@xorz such as myself prefer to bypass the filesystem altogether; that's why <b>`dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1'</b> has become the new <b>`rm -rf /'</b> (True l33t h@xorz also don't go around proclaiming they are l33t h@xorz, nor do they even use those bizarre character substitutions in the first place. I also have feeling that it doesn't take them 6 months just to write a $@#%ing kernel module.) Mike `rm -rf /’ is so hopelessly Multics! Come on, Stafford, get with the program. This is 2008, not 1978.

These days, true l33t h@xorz such as myself prefer to bypass the filesystem altogether; that’s why `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1′ has become the new `rm -rf /’

(True l33t h@xorz also don’t go around proclaiming they are l33t h@xorz, nor do they even use those bizarre character substitutions in the first place. I also have feeling that it doesn’t take them 6 months just to write a $@#%ing kernel module.)

Mike

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