| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: irc is still around but its not nearly as big |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: so if you wanted to crash people |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: us eot have like 10 or 20 netowkrs now ther onl a few |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: you would lm -s /dev/zero /home/user/boobies.gif |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc was he big client |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: and then tell people to download it |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | No: mirc was way late to the game :) |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: now they make animated gifs that show 1 fram of a girl about ot raise shirt then a birght word |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc was the popular cient near the middle to major peak |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc pretty much stoped and was rleased free i think now |
| [06-13 23:46] | [Chat] | No: basically the person would think they were downloading boobies.gif but instead were getting the endless stream of zeros from /dev/zero |
| [06-13 23:46] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: only irc clients i see an more are from lniux |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | No: I used to use ln -s /dev/null but that downloaded too quick to be real file after mnp5 compression became a thing on modems |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: the /dev nll stuff is still used |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: in fact i read an article aout it as a way to deal with ai bots |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | No: still the fastest user level way to drop many GB or even TB of memory use by an app |
| [06-13 23:48] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: so the trick istill in use |
| [06-13 23:48] | [Chat] | No: mv /dev/null > program/file/cache |
| [06-13 23:49] | [Chat] | No: basically on small endian machines it SHL to drop a null on the entire ram segment in memory. on Large Endian machines did a SHR shify right. |
| [06-13 23:50] | [Chat] | No: like 2 cycles of CPU to wipe out 1 or a trillion bytes in ram or disk |
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