[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [breakthrough] RE:BUNTU, Linux that kills itself and may kill you

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Fri Jul 17 18:32:27 CEST 2009



Interesting - reminds me of a very small html1 webpage I wrote a while ago 
that recursively loaded frames by dividing them repeatedly into 4; after a 
while everything stopped on the machine of course (altho the screen was 
beautiful!). - Alan



On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, james morris wrote:

>
> is this m$ propaganda?
>
> if you open a file so large that you run out of memory AND swap space, it
> kinda serves you right - you should be aware that resources are finite.
>
> i'm sure there's no chance it would happen somewhere where it is
> critical for the system to keep running - the sys admins will be well
> aware of the requirements of the system and configure it to handle these
> requirements.
>
> james.
>
>
>
> On 17/7/2009, "Olga" <olga.panades at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm forwarding this message from the Breakthrough mailing list..
>> ___________________________________________________
>>
>> k0a1a 2070 would like to bring to your attention:
>>
>> RE:BUNTU
>>
>> "re:buntu is an illustration of a system making decisions by itself and
>> committing to self-maintenance. The system is continuously reloading a
>> copy of itself within itself  until the system memory runs out. When no
>> free memory is left the system needs to decide which one of the copies
>> of itself it shall kill in order to reproduce itself again, again and
>> again... "
>>
>> read: http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu
>> run:  http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu/rebuntu-07142304.iso
>> see:  http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu/rebuntu-screencast-20mb.ogv
>>
>>
>> EOF
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