I have to say
I don't understand a lot of this. Ubuntu is Linux I think, but what the fuck does "sudo rm -rf /*" mean?
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 21:13, 3 replies)

Well sudo is a command that give a user god like permissions, rm means remove, the -rf switch could mean recursive files and the /* could be interprated as "everything from here" of course this means Im a geek and wont get laid for another 10 years but hey ho Big Bangs on the telly soon
(polar69, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 21:38, closed)

Almost.
The f flag is used to force deletion without asking for permission from the user or stopping if there's an error.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 6 Feb 2011, 14:17, closed)

It's basically like logging in as admin and deleting your C: drive. That's why it was important that I knew he didn't have anything important on it and that he could reboot back into windows, so he could still use his computer. And IRC is an old chat program, basically a bunch of chat rooms organized around topic.
( Ithyphallophobia, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 21:47, closed)

Multiplayer notepad.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 6 Feb 2011, 0:16, closed)

Pretty much...
The only real difference is that you can send and receive files over IRC. Other than that, it's a pretty good description.
( Ithyphallophobia, Sun 6 Feb 2011, 0:28, closed)

We're supposed to think it breaks down as follows:
sudo Do this as superuser, thereby bypassing various safeguards
rm remove
-r recursively through directories
f forcing deletion without asking for confirmation
/. starting with the top most directory/folder.

It's one of these things that people like to claim they did to newbies, though since the default for rm in Ubuntu is also --preserve-root it wouldn't actually work.
(ubergeekian, Sun 6 Feb 2011, 14:45, closed)

I've got the logs to prove it, and I'm sure if you joined ##snus on Freenode, vision would remember. He's still pretty pissed off about it. Of course, text logs don't really mean much if I wanted to be obsessive and doctor them, but as I said, he'll tell you about it.
( Ithyphallophobia, Mon 7 Feb 2011, 4:05, closed)

Looking through them, sudo rm only shows up in past reference to it, so I guess I didn't start loging then. vision still mentions me trashing his install from time to time in them though.
( Ithyphallophobia, Mon 7 Feb 2011, 4:09, closed)