How long has your OS been installed?

[theymos]

7/1/2010

[myrkul]

lol... trying to run Linux commands on Windows. You're a funny guy.

try del c:\*.*

Yes I like jokes!

del c:/*.* will stuck against system files protected by permissions even under WindowsXP. Yet this command could goatse all my files stored on regular folders.

Probably will succeed under Windows98, especially if reboooted into DOS mode.

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

[MysteryMiner]

Long time ago one friend started to write DoS tool but decided to abandon project and ended with adding few lines to code that destroy windows. The damage is not visible until rebooted. The software still had the GUI interface of original intended purpose and I run it. It was before virtualization and test environments become available.

That ended with reinstallation of my OS. Back then reinstalling was fast and easy. On morning I booted Windows98 startup floppy and in evening I was playing games with my friends or causing devastation on IRC servers or NMDC hubs. Today installing OS is almost month of daily installing, tweaking, securing, configuring, testing until everything works as it should.

[myrkul]

Today installing OS is almost month of daily installing, tweaking, securing, configuring, testing until everything works as it should.

A well-planned Linux install can be over and done with in a day, but that planning takes some time. Or, you can put everything you need on a bootable CD or USB stick, and just run off that, and never have to worry about installing again. Most of the USB versions of this plan even allow for storage of files and whatnot. But for security, you can't beat a Live CD.

[MysteryMiner]

It really depends what the computer are supposed to do.

More and more I rely on virtual machines or live bootable systems. Still I need one computer that can do almost anything I need at a few clicks. Or create DVD that can be booted off from another PC. And that can be used for both entertainment, gaming and internet stuff without rebooting or switching hardware.

This is why my real PC and OS is so important. Learned it hard way, now will have fully loaded rigs all around me.

[Foxpup]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

[myrkul]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

Oh, evil....

[Foxpup]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

Oh, evil....

The school did weekly backups of everything, so I figured it would just be a minor inconvenience. That's the only reason I wasn't suspended. In retrospect, it was slightly less funny than I thought it would be. But only slightly.

[myrkul]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

Oh, evil....

The school did weekly backups of everything, so I figured it would just be a minor inconvenience. That's the only reason I wasn't suspended. In retrospect, it was slightly less funny than I thought it would be. But only slightly.

lol... yeah, I taught my dad the importance of regular backups, if nothing else.

[MysteryMiner]

I remember whining about autorun.ini idea long before it became problem. It took few years for virus writers to start utilize this "feature" and few more years for Microsoft to disable it via optional KB update. One guy I know got all his equipment damaged by variation of Chernobyl virus from infected autorun program on game demo CD. He was running Win98 back then and even his CD-ROM firmware got damaged by virus.

You cannot reasonably backup everything.

[RichG]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

Oh, evil....

The school did weekly backups of everything, so I figured it would just be a minor inconvenience. That's the only reason I wasn't suspended. In retrospect, it was slightly less funny than I thought it would be. But only slightly.

ROFL!!!. They lost the record of you writing the virus? 

[Foxpup]

Interestingly enough, one of the first programs I ever wrote, in some form or another of BASIC, was a one-line "virus" that erased everything on the hard drive. I never intended to run it. My dad, however, didn't know what it would do....

Boy, was he pissed. I honestly thought I was going to die that day.

Heh. I did almost exactly the same thing in high school, only it wasn't BASIC, it was autorun.inf (this was back when Windows would silently run anything autorun.inf told it to, no questions asked). I nearly got suspended for that.

Oh, evil....

The school did weekly backups of everything, so I figured it would just be a minor inconvenience. That's the only reason I wasn't suspended. In retrospect, it was slightly less funny than I thought it would be. But only slightly.

ROFL!!!. They lost the record of you writing the virus? 

No, it didn't delete itself. How else would they appreciate the genius of it? Also, that would have been quite difficult to pull off with a CD-R...

[myrkul]

Install date, not uptime. Though those are pretty impressive.

[pekv2]

Seems like malevolent is the longest then theymos then quite a few of 2011's. Outstanding.

[btceic]

C:\Users\User>systeminfo | find /i "install date"
Original Install Date:     7/2/2009, 10:27:20 PM

[myrkul]

lol... trying to run Linux commands on Windows. You're a funny guy.

try del c:\*.*

you need del c:\*.* /s

Ah. It's been many moons since I had to operate in a windows command line environment.

[RichG]

I hate cmd.exe.
It pisses me off.

[ganabb]

june/1/2013

[cryptopi]

August 05, 2012 (macbook pro retina bootcamp with windows x64)

[mprep]

I hate cmd.exe.
It pisses me off.

Why so?