$ chown -R USA .*

July 24, 2005 8:07 PM

$ rm -r bin/laden
bin/laden: No such file or directory
posted by swift (21 comments total)

Such exquisite geekery, thank you.
posted by signal at 8:14 PM on July 24, 2005

Good work.
posted by xmutex at 8:28 PM on July 24, 2005

Oh man, that's good stuff.
# cd Iraq/Al_Qaeda
Al_Qaeda: does not exist
Made my girlfriend ask what the hell I was laughing about, and I'm kinda embarrassed to tell her.
posted by Edible Energy at 8:31 PM on July 24, 2005

you have a girlfriend!?

juuust kiddin. fun stuff :)
posted by freudianslipper at 8:32 PM on July 24, 2005

The War on Terror in UNIX shell
posted by 31d1 at 4:12 PM PST on July 23 [!]
posted by The Jesse Helms at 8:38 PM on July 24, 2005

Oops. Checked that thread and somehow missed it.
posted by swift at 8:49 PM on July 24, 2005

magically delicious!

thanks for the giggles :)
posted by tu11ym0n at 8:51 PM on July 24, 2005

[this is good]
posted by odinsdream at 8:56 PM on July 24, 2005

Now that is funny for anyone familiar with UNIX - good to see the Sun guys having a sense of humour.
posted by RonZ at 10:15 PM on July 24, 2005

holy crap - that is hilarious!
posted by scarabic at 10:41 PM on July 24, 2005

$ How would you rate Bush's incompetence?
Unmatched '.
posted by RavinDave at 10:55 PM on July 24, 2005

/credit where credit's due, and all that ...
posted by RavinDave at 11:02 PM on July 24, 2005

not really that funny.
posted by angry modem at 11:02 PM on July 24, 2005

angry modem, the JeffK of thread 43703
posted by jonson at 11:26 PM on July 24, 2005

isn't jeffk that guy from somethingawful?
posted by angry modem at 11:47 PM on July 24, 2005

nevermind, i just read his userpage.
posted by angry modem at 11:47 PM on July 24, 2005

pretty good
posted by nj_subgenius at 3:25 AM on July 25, 2005

Seems to me there's humor here, but to me it's totally inaccessible.
posted by Citizen Premier at 3:41 AM on July 25, 2005

1) Passwords aren't echoed with asterisks.
2) Although it makes for some hi-larious humor, the bit with the Iraq/Al_Qaeda symlink doesn't really make sense (Unless you assume there's another user with root access in the system. Cue discussion on a second superpower.)
3) Reminds me of this shirt, which used to be available at ThinkGeek.
posted by Plutor at 4:14 AM on July 25, 2005

Clever.
posted by voltairemodern at 7:21 AM on July 25, 2005

Oh man, I'm in stitches, that's fuuu-ny. Or, what I'm really trying to say is, I know enough *NIX to get that.
posted by bicyclingfool at 9:21 PM on July 25, 2005