An easy way to obliterate terrorism

Yay me! Yay Apple! Yay OS X.1!

I'm proud of myself. I stayed in 10.1 ALL DAY, with the small exception earlier today to download images from a digital camera and just a few minutes ago to use Cisco VPN software. Very cool. There were a few times I was half-tempted to boot back into OS9, but I think that's only because of the slight learning curve associated with 10. Like I told one of the guys in Studio today: OS X is finally just as fast as OS 9, but it seems a little slower just because everything is different and you have to take an extra second or two to figure out how to do something. Actions that were second nature in OS9 now take me a moment to find the OS X equivalent. Not bad, though.

I saw something today that I have a feeling not many of you will understand. It's a unix command joke, if you will. It's a real unix command, but with a humorous twist. So without further ado, here it is:

rm -r -f /bin/laden

For those of you who may be scratching your head, here's a simple explanation:

"rm" is a unix command that is used to delete file and folders. It is the equivalent to dragging an icon on your desktop to the trash can (or Recycle Bin on Windows). It is the unix erase command, in other words.

The "-f" option tells the system to "just do it". Don't ask any questions. Don't ask me if I'm sure I want to do this. Just do it.

The "-r" option tells the system to delete recursively. That is, delete all subfolders of the folder being deleted.

Posted by Jeff at October 1, 2001 11:56 PM