sudo rm

[Orang Utan]

he won't take responsibility cos he thinks i'm a mug for falling for it. I've never hit anyone but i guess there's a first time for everything. Practical revenge tips would be welcome. Seriously. I want to fuck him up proper

 

[_pH_]

Get your friend to type the smiley-like thing I posted earlier.

what does that do?

 

[_pH_]

he won't take responsibility cos he thinks i'm a mug for falling for it. I've never hit anyone but i guess there's a first time for everything. Practical revenge tips would be welcome. Seriously. I want to fuck him up proper

what an utter cuntsock! (him, not you obv.)

 

[lozenge]

what does that do?

keeps spawning processes 'til the machine grinds to a halt.
known as a 'fork-bomb'.
only needs a reboot to recover.
(running it on a server where uptime is essential is bad, on a laptop/desktop - not so much)

 

[fogbat]

Your friend sounds like a nob.

Poo on his keyboard, then close the lid. This will both a) ensure it's thoroughly smeared over the keys and b) give him a nasty surprise when he opens it.

 

[ExtraRefined]

he won't take responsibility cos he thinks i'm a mug for falling for it. I've never hit anyone but i guess there's a first time for everything. Practical revenge tips would be welcome. Seriously. I want to fuck him up proper

Nick his computer and type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda1 (or whatever path it is on macs these days)

 

[perplexis]

Yeah, we kind of need to know exactly what you typed in order to judge quite how badly you are fucked. "Mac not working" is a bad sign mind. "sudo rm -fr /" for instance is... pretty much the worst thing you can ever type.

(I have a bad habit of casually rm-ing things from the Terminal, which I am trying to stop and replace with only ever deleting stuff via the Finder so it goes into the Trash rather than just poofs.)

You could add this handy function to your .profile (if you use bash)

function rm () {
  local path
  for path in "$@"; do
    # ignore any arguments
    if [[ "$path" = -* ]]; then :
    else
      local dst=${path##*/}
      # append the time if necessary
      while [ -e ~/.Trash/"$dst" ]; do
        dst="$dst "$(date +%H-%M-%S)
      done
      mv "$path" ~/.Trash/"$dst"
    fi
  done
}

from here

On topic though- Orang Utan, your friend is clearly a twat. I mean, wtf?

 

[Orang Utan]

apparently i can save whatever files are left, by holding down t and switching it on, but i'll need another mac to save them on while i reinstall the apps. not sure how i'll do that though. i may just take the mac to an apple store. i'm told they might fix it for free.

 

[Crispy]

Probably the best course of action. Although 'fix it' may just mean reinstalling OSX for you.

 

[tarannau]

If you can't be arsed to travel to town Orang, you're welcome to use my (spare) mac/hd to save your files on from your laptop. Basically that pressing 't' business at startup allows you to access the remains of your mac like a hard drive.

Not sure what'd be left, but I've OSX Leopard for the reinstall as well. You'd possibly have to reload your music and I can't provide much insight outside of that - it's possible that the Apple Store could do more, but it's a airly serious command to undo


I'm at the COuntry show for most of the w/e, but I've already committed myself to a weekend of fixing my (other) mac between drinking and more fun times.

 

[Orang Utan]

cheers for that - i can probably use my flatmate's PC though.
there's also an apple store in westfield near my work, so i might take it there

 

[jæd]

next time you meat your friend pour water over their computer

He should use full fat Coke (or Pepsi), beer, or another fizzy drink with a high sugar contents for his cock of a friend... This will completely fuck up the computers bits.

 

[fractionMan]

he won't take responsibility cos he thinks i'm a mug for falling for it. I've never hit anyone but i guess there's a first time for everything. Practical revenge tips would be welcome. Seriously. I want to fuck him up proper

cut of his head and shit down his neck.

that'll learn him.

seriously, what an utter cunt.

 

[electroplated]

cheers for that - i can probably use my flatmate's PC though.
there's also an apple store in westfield near my work, so i might take it there

Only if your flatmate's PC has a firewire port and you have a firewire cable.
Should your utter cock of a mate not be sorting this out/paying to sort this out?

 

[tarannau]

Not sure if you can enter target mode with anything other than a mac tbh.

Good luck mind.

 

[electroplated]

i think it literally turns the mac into an external hard disk for all intents an purposes, but the filesystem would probably be unreadable?

Definitely best to use another mac for the job regardless.

 

[fen_boy]

unix man rm definitely says that / is the default.

No it doesn't.

 

[Epico]

Why did you run it? What did he tell you it did?

 

[bmd]

I have nothing to add other than I hope you get this sorted OU and as far as your mate is concerned...wtf?

 

[Orang Utan]

Only if your flatmate's PC has a firewire port and you have a firewire cable.
Should your utter cock of a mate not be sorting this out/paying to sort this out?

you'd think so, wouldn't you?
i'm not sure i want his help now, as i don't trust him one inch

 

[Orang Utan]

Why did you run it? What did he tell you it did?

he said it would run faster if i did.
i was also informed by a friend who thought i was in on the joke that it would free up some space on my drice. he was right!

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

take it the mac shop. explain what you didand you would like the data and a reinstall. Bill your friend.

 

[cybertect]

unix man rm definitely says that / is the default

Not on my (Mac OS X) version (BSD rm dated January 28, 1999)

@Orang: To echo what everyone else has said. Your former friend is a cunt.

If you have the Installation DVD that came with your Mac, you could boot up with that and have a look at what's on the disk with Terminal without needing another Mac. It might help assess how bad the situation is.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2055

The specific commands you'd need would be

cd / to move to the top directory of your drive

and

ls -l to show you what's in it.

df -h will tell you how much disk space is free on your drive. This might give you an idea of how much was deleted.

du -hcs ./* will tell you how much each subdirectory contains.

You should be particularly interested in the contents of /Users as this is where your Home directory is and all of your personal data (Documents, Mail, iTunes music, etc.).

 

[Orang Utan]

cheers for that - there's a dvd in the drive though - i don't know how i'll get it out

 

[Orang Utan]

oh, and does anyone know how to get music from my iPod to my Mac - if i sync it, it will delete everything off the iPod if i have no files on the Mac

 

[bmd]

cheers for that - there's a dvd in the drive though - i don't know how i'll get it out

Get a paper clip and push it into the tiny little hole in the front of the drive. Thats if Macs have that tiny little hole, they might not, I've never had one.

HTH.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They don't these days, but if you restart it while holding the mouse button down, it should eject the DVD.

 

[Crispy]

oh, and does anyone know how to get music from my iPod to my Mac - if i sync it, it will delete everything off the iPod if i have no files on the Mac

I know how, and will reveal this to you when your computer is functioning

 

[cybertect]

They don't these days, but if you restart it while holding the mouse button down, it should eject the DVD.

^^^ this.

One of the oldest tricks in the (Mac)Book.

Holding down the mouse button at startup to eject all removable media dates back to the days when you would boot from a floppy disc. I used to do it with my 512K equipped with an external floppy drive and no HD

 

[Orang Utan]

thanks all.
i'm beginning to see the funny side.
another friend fell for it and another friend made this: