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How to damage Mac OS X at all?
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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delete the font Lucida Grande via terminal!
Yahh!
Try yourself!
Great System.
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made on mac with .mac with a powermac and mac os!
they call it a community, not a monopoly
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Thanks for sharing. Since you've enlightened me, I'm buying a Dell.
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This guy is an as*hole, he comes every once in a while to post stupid stuff about Mac OS X like this.
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who would have thought a simple terminal command could destroy the system! you know I did some trial and error, and if you delete the folder "System", it screws the OS too! I was so crushed threw my mac in the trash right away.
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Originally posted by Morenix:
delete the font Lucida Grande via terminal!
Yahh!
Try yourself!
Great System.
Really? That had no effect on my system at all.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Originally posted by Morenix:
delete the font Lucida Grande via terminal!
Yahh!
Try yourself!
Great System.
Gee what a surprise the OS doesn't work without the system font. As a comparison I tried the corresponding thing with Window 98. What do you know at boot it just stops and says:
Error loading gdi.exe
You must reinstall Windows
All because I moved some fonts... great system 
Wesley
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That's it! I'm buying a pencil and some paper!
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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I ran my mac over with my car the other day, and it stopped working! I'm outraged! Steve Jobs will hear from my lawyer!
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damage? how about destroy?
from the cli try:
sudo rm -R /
with great power comes great responsibility.
move on, nothing of interest here...
(Last edited by ppmax; Dec 20, 2002 at 11:33 PM.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by ppmax:
damage? how about destroy?
from the cli try:
sudo rm -R /
with great power comes great responsibility.
move on, nothing of interest here...
There's a way to do that without the terminal too in 10.2.3! It's a function in DiskUtility called Zero All Data. My system wouldn't even TRY to boot once I did that! I didn't even have to find a trashcan for my Mac.... I just started using it AS a trashcan.
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Originally posted by WJMoore:
Gee what a surprise the OS doesn't work without the system font. As a comparison I tried the corresponding thing with Window 98. What do you know at boot it just stops and says:
Error loading gdi.exe
You must reinstall Windows
All because I moved some fonts... great system
Wesley
You can't screw up WindowsXP by doing that.
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Originally posted by chris v:
That's it! I'm buying a pencil and some paper!
CV
Now that actually made reading this thread worthwhile. LOL!
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Actually, OS 9 would still work if you did this, it contained various essential fonts in bitmap form inside the System file. But of course deleting the System file would still screw up your system. Today's lesson? Don't screw with /System unless you know what you're doing.
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No matter how hard they work to make things idiot-proof, someone's hard at work somewhere else making a better idiot.
I'm sure there's at least one simple way to waste ANY OS install.
CV
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Mac Elite
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You can't screw up WindowsXP by doing that.
Just delete a couple of .dll files. Hmmm, I wonder what that will do?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by rambo47:
You can't screw up WindowsXP by doing that.
Just delete a couple of .dll files. Hmmm, I wonder what that will do?
you dont need to do this. it screws itself up without deleting anything!
nexus5.
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