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  2. Elk Cloner - Wikipedia

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    Elk Cloner was created by Skrenta as a prank in 1982. Skrenta already had a reputation for pranks among his friends. In sharing computer games and software, he would often alter the floppy disks to shut down or display taunting on-screen messages. Due to this reputation, many of his friends simply stopped accepting floppy disks from him.

  3. Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia

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    Residents of MIT's Simmons Hall collaborated to make a smiley face on the building's facade, December 8, 2002. Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness, and/or to commemorate popular culture and historical topics.

  4. Mount (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A mount point is a location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives.

  5. GNOME Disks - Wikipedia

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    GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks. [3] It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12). [4] An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project.

  6. Fork bomb - Wikipedia

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    The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service. In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation.

  7. Comparison of disc image software - Wikipedia

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    Name Creates [a] Modifies? [b]Mounts? [c]Writes/ Burns? [d]Extracts? [e]Input format [f] Output format [g] OS License; 7-Zip: Yes: No: No: No: Yes: CramFS, DMG, FAT ...

  8. Scareware - Wikipedia

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    The software then begins simulating deletion of the Windows folder. When this process is complete, a message is slowly typed on screen saying "Thank God this is only a game." A screen with the purchase information appears on screen and then returns to the desktop. No damage is done to the computer during the advertisement. [citation needed]

  9. Virtual disk and virtual drive - Wikipedia

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    Virtual disk and virtual drive are software components that emulate an actual disk storage device.. Virtual disks and virtual drives are common components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for the creation of logical disks,software development, testing environments, and data management.