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So I Sent My Friend An MS-DOS 'Virus'
DrMobius:
--- Quote from: Regulith on August 02, 2009, 12:21:45 AM ---I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.
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I'd be surprised if your computer could even be run after that went off.
Niliscro:
--- Quote from: Regulith on August 02, 2009, 12:21:45 AM ---I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.
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Well, if he had a 4TB hard drive that isn't partitioned and gradually made and compressed 2TB files over and over until he had a large enough file, he could do it in like a week.
DrMobius:
http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/42-kilobytes-unzipped-make-45-petabytes/
Basicly, It's zip trees.
Miga:
--- Quote from: jordguitar on August 02, 2009, 12:23:59 AM ---Your a idiot.
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Irony. :D
Sorry jord, had to point it out.
Regulith:
--- Quote from: jordguitar on August 02, 2009, 12:23:59 AM ---Your a idiot. He needs to have that much space in the first place to do it. And it will take YEARS to compress that much data into such a small file. Plus it would corrupt it.
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Not knowing something doesn't make me an idiot, it makes me uninformed, which I am when it comes to all of this.
I'm just telling you what he told me, I don't know how it works.
EDIT:
--- Quote from: Lord Pie on August 02, 2009, 12:27:37 AM ---http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/42-kilobytes-unzipped-make-45-petabytes/
Basicly, It's zip trees.
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See? It's possible, or so this thing says.