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Cake day: January 28th, 2025

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  • In university we were taught C programming. We started with simple things like loops and stuff. After a while the topic processes, threads & stuff came up and of course we were instructed to use that.

    In the computer lab there where only thin clients so everything actually ran on the server.

    A good friend of mine - not know what was about to happen - entered:

    while (true) {
        fork();
    }
    

    Astoundingly it took a whole minute until the server froze. 🤣
    That was the same server most of the school stuff ran on. So nearly everything went down. 😂
    He got scolded by the sysadmin the next day but nothing serious happened.