Ok, that takes the cake.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Today, I saw a system crash because /dev/null was full.

Comments

[jon787.livejournal.com]

...

I'm going to assume that the actual /dev/null device was deleted and replaced by a normal file or something.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

yup, and you can't actually write to a devfs, so I was getting fun stuff like "/dev/null - no space on device"

[jecook]

O.O That's a special kind of epic fail.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

I should ask my old comp arch prof if I can post his story of the time the zero register in the CPU wasn't zero anymore.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

gotta hear that.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

... what?!!!?

*flail*

[syberghost.livejournal.com]

Multiple times, all caused by scripts written by the same person, we've had machines fill /var because she accidentally used /var/null instead of /dev/null...

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

I... how?

[edling.livejournal.com]

Wow... that's a good one...

I did that

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

I accidentally deleted /dev/null on a SPARCStation One (what was that, about 1989 or so?) and so all the programs that piped their output to /dev/null were actually writing into the root partition. Eventually one of them filled it up.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

my fault, sorry. I rounded pi to 5 significant figures the other day, which I think broke the universe. Can't have rational pi!

funny you mention that!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

...my home PC is powered by a wheel with a circumference exactly three times its diameter.

You wouldn't want to stand too close to it.

Re: funny you mention that!

[pne.livejournal.com]

But how quickly does it deliver email?

Re: funny you mention that!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Before you even send it in some cases.

Re: funny you mention that!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Let me guess, designed by 'bloody stupid' Johnson?!

Re: funny you mention that!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

icon love!

Re: funny you mention that!

[piepants.livejournal.com]

I read that sentence twice before I figured out what it meant (slow brain day)

Then I was laughing like mad

ah...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Icon. Love.

(but watch out for the SPC brigade)

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

thank you :) this icon does get a lot of comments!

but, uhm...SPC? whassat?

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Seventies Porno Colin :D One of the various tosheroons produced by the eddies of fandom - in this case pics from the 70's of CB with an insanely stereotypical porno moustache.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

HA! I thought I was pretty well versed in Doctor lore, but that one's new to me.

At any rate, I know, I know, I need to update my icon for the David Tennant, I'm just a huge slacker.

Might even make an alternate icon with Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, et al as well.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, if you include Curse of the fatal death, you'd probably blow the 40k limit!


*much love if you set Broadbent as "Pansy" :D*

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

Sadly I've never been enough of a BBC afficionado to have seen Broadbent in anything else (that I remember at least). Living stateside, I've considered myself lucky to have gotten occasional Monty Python, old Doctor Who, and Black Adder. The Internet has been very useful in, er, broadening my horizons (and I swear I'll get legit copies soon, honest, but wow that stuff is expensive).

But yeah, I already hit the 40k limit pretty hard making this current icon, had to drastically reduce image quality to get it to fit.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Gahh. poor bastard. The sheer amount of beeb content is one of the advantages of still being in a 'commonwealth' country.

If you ever get a chance, snag IT crowd and Spaced. Good staples of the geek community :D

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

Took me a while to realize what "beeb" meant. But I did realize it :)

Depraved on account of being deprived, yessir...

You are not the first to suggest Spaced to me! Will check that out, as well as IT crowd (haven't heard of that one before).

Think I'm gonna friend ya. :P

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Watch out for the dripping pools of insanity...

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

pfft. if you friend me back, watch out for endless "wah, life sucks, am unhappy and lonely, hey check out this funny youtube video"

:P

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Dude, Resume spam?

Not. Fucking. Appreciated.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

er?

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Hello.
My name is xxxxx, I represent Herold Tech Inc. company. We need representatives
in Australia for full and part-time jobs (2 positions are available). We do not ask for any money, we are reputable company operating in Latvia.
You will get:
- 5000 AUD guaranteed monthly income
- Comprehensive medical and life insurance for you and your dependents. You
will be receiving an JK Tech Inc Medicine card and all the paperwork in
2 weeks after successfully completing your probation period.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
You have to be honest,loyal, responsible and hard-working.
You have to comply with all reasonable and lawful instructions provided to
you by our company.
You need 5-7 hours during the week for communication.
Residential address to receive correspondence (if any).
Computer w/internet connection.
Please, reply to support@xxxxx.com if you are interested and I will send you job details.
Thanks
xxxxx
Herold Tech Inc.
)


-_-

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

That's, uhm, nice. What does that have to do with...anything?

:D

$5k AUD per month? Holy christ, I'll take that.

I need to dig out the page where the guy scammed the 419 scammers by pretending to be Admiral James T. Kirk, and actually got like $200 in cash FROM the scammers. That was awesome.

Sorry, thought for a moment there you were accusing my journal of containing spam. Nonsense, sure. Stream-of-consciousness crap with poor grammar and capitalization, definitely. Not spam, though.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

Spaced is released in Region 1 this July :)

[evilbutcute.livejournal.com]

Rad!

[toxico.livejournal.com]

That's nothing. I watched a Windows machine get operated by a fencepost-dumb end user today without a single error.

But seriously ... 'the hell?

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

That falls under the 'infinite number of monkeys with typewriters' category of events. Not impossible just very, very implausible.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yep, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

let me guess: someone installed Microsoft FrontPage extensions?
Used to be an old bug with their installer. (never done it myself, always stayed from it)

On solaris, at least 2.6 and 7, if you delete /dev/zero, nothing starts...