xfce4-panel & memory cunsumption

Rinaldi J. Montessi montessir at bellsouth.net
Mon Sep 25 22:50:12 CEST 2006


Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Rinaldi J. Montessi <montessir at bellsouth.net> wrote:
[...]
> Okay kids, fun as this all is, I recall not long ago when people
> started putting up malicious Perl scripts on perlmonks.org in the
> obfuscated Perl part of the site. Some people just don't speak shell,
> and will run these commands just for the fun of it.
> 
> So for the sake of newbies (like my friend Jason, who ran rm -rf / in
> all cluelessly the first day he had a Unix machine under his control)
> and for list archives I say: don't do that.

Hopefully the first lesson learned is to run as $USER not root; but 
point taken.

Rinaldi
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