I got The Black Album to erase his pc AGAIN!
1,676 words | Posted on March 17th, 2004
Scott was 18.48 years old when he wrote this!
Filed under: General
All right, many of you might remember a few weeks ago when I got TheBlackAlbum (a really dumb person who pretends to be “elite”) to erase his own computer. Now that, in itself, was hysterical. See the irony? A guy claims to be an elite hacker erases his own computer thanks to my own “how to fix your computer” instructions. So, imagine the humor in getting the same thing happening to the same person TWICE! That’s right, memories are short. TheBlackAlbum (now running Mandrake (the newbiest) Linux) just erased his own computer AGAIN thanks to mwa! Conversation? Thought you’d never ask.
note: text [in brackets] is modified while text //like this// is inserted later
(22:44:42) The Black Album: H4Y
(22:44:44) The Black Album: SKOTT
(22:44:46) The Black Album: SUP
(22:44:47) rts: english only
(22:44:50) The Black Album: whats up with xmms [xmms is a sound player for linux]
(22:44:54) rts: the volume // get it? //
(22:45:01) The Black Album: i [friggin] installed glib 2.2.2
(22:45:29) The Black Album: and then ./configure it and make; su -c “make install”
(22:45:37) The Black Album: whats wrong ;{
(22:45:40) rts: humm
(22:45:50) rts: open up a konsole window
(22:45:53) The Black Album: its taking me 2 days to install a media player ;[
(22:46:12) rts: run "dmesg | grep esdn" and tell me if it dumps anything out // does nothing //
(22:46:33) The Black Album: ok trying to deltree my linux box huh..
(22:46:46) rts: if so then it's a bad problem. If it just takes you to the next line, you're golden - you just need to move your urandom to another place
(22:46:50) rts: no?
(22:47:09) rts: ok forget it then I'm gonna go do something else
(22:47:15) rts: good luck
(22:47:38) The Black Album: urrandom?
(22:47:55) rts: yeah, it's the hard drive location crap
(22:48:05) rts: what distro are you using... redhat?
(22:48:09) rts: slackware? mandrake?
(22:48:16) The Black Album: mandrake
(22:48:19) rts: all right.
(22:48:27) rts: open up a console and then get root
(22:48:49) The Black Album: ok
(22:49:03) rts: then you can run this command:
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
to make it so the comp can see both devices
(22:49:14) rts: then try to launch xmms again
(22:49:23) rts: it should work. if not, reboot, then it should work
(22:49:36) The Black Album: LROFL u think im going to fall for it
(22:49:45) rts: ? // that command will overwrite your hard drive with random garbage //
(22:52:53) rts: hello?
(22:53:04) The Black Album: hi
(22:53:16) rts: did it work or not? if not, I think it might just be in the mixer settings
(22:53:46) rts: either way it's an easy fix
(22:53:52) The Black Album: how
(22:54:11) rts: scroll up and do what I said to
(22:54:22) The Black Album: NO why would i do that
(22:54:28) The Black Album: it will [mess] up my
(22:54:28) The Black Album: hda
(22:54:30) The Black Album: partions
(22:54:34) The Black Album: and wont be able to boot
(22:54:46) rts: no, /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 etc are your partitions
(22:54:52) rts: the #s at the end are your partitions
(22:54:56) rts: /dev/hda is just a pointer
(22:55:07) rts: it needs to be able to see the whole drive as well
(22:55:17) rts: otherwise programs simply don’t work right when you try to install them
(22:55:18) The Black Album: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hdb = no more partiton table
(22:55:22) The Black Album: or anything else for that matter
(22:55:24) The Black Album: im not dumb
(22:55:45) The Black Album: i installed gentoo on my 2nd birthday
(22:55:48) rts: hey, you fell for it a month ago, don’t try to pull the “I’m not stupid” rig
(22:56:01) The Black Album: u did not get me
(22:56:08) The Black Album: like i dont know what format C: is
(22:56:09) The Black Album: loloLROFL
(22:56:14) The Black Album: i had to reformat anyway
(22:56:17) rts: yeah whatever
(22:56:20) The Black Album: so i can put linux on
(22:56:31) The Black Album: ur trying to get me to do cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hdb
(22:56:32) The Black Album: LRORLFLl
(22:56:41) rts: you don’t even know what it does
(22:56:48) The Black Album: yes i do
(22:56:52) rts: what
(22:57:01) The Black Album: something bad
(22:57:05) rts: haha
(22:57:10) rts: you have no idea what it does do you
(22:57:14) The Black Album: YES I DO
(22:57:33) rts: what does it do then
(22:57:46) The Black Album: it ill
(22:57:51) The Black Album: substitute
(22:58:02) The Black Album: wwowow yeah scott let me go into
(22:58:06) rts: dude, you’re so new – it’s something I do every time I need to install a program
(22:58:07) rts: haha
(22:58:09) rts: it’s nothing bad
(22:58:17) rts: you’re a paranoid newbie
(22:58:18) rts: seriously
(22:58:25) rts: now stop asking for my help if you don’t want to accept it
(22:58:34) The Black Album: ok to fix the xmms
(22:58:39) The Black Album: i have to mess with [stuff]
(22:58:40) The Black Album: in
(22:58:50) The Black Album: hda
(22:58:59) The Black Album: whats up with dmesg | grep esdn
(22:59:03) rts: for it to run properly, it needs to be able to load library files.
(22:59:09) rts: the library files end in .esdn
(22:59:16) rts: dmesg dumps out the boot message
(22:59:23) rts: if a .esdn file loaded, “grep esdn” will show it
(22:59:32) rts: if dmesg | grep esdn shows nothing, then it’s not finding those files
(22:59:39) rts: in which case you need to have them able to be seen
(23:00:18) rts: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda will make all of the ‘urandom’ junk (universal random files) accessable from the hard drive without touching any of your partitions
(23:01:38) The Black Album: i did
(23:01:39) The Black Album: dmesg | grep esdn
(23:01:44) The Black Album: and it just went to the nest line
(23:01:47) The Black Album:
(23:01:59) rts: ok
(23:02:01) rts: then they’re not being found
(23:02:29) The Black Album: rts (10:56:44 PM): if so then it’s a bad problem. If it just takes you to the next line, you’re golden – you just need to move your urandom to another place
(23:02:32) The Black Album: hmmm…
(23:02:38) The Black Album: contradictions…. hmhmhmhm
(23:02:46) rts: contradictions? read the text
(23:02:51) rts: the urandom files are not found as they are
(23:02:53) rts: they need to be moved
(23:02:56) rts: so they can be seen in hda
(23:02:57) rts: /rolls eyes/
(23:02:58) rts: you’re so new
(23:03:05) rts: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
(23:03:06) The Black Album: how come u said
(23:03:30) The Black Album: ok
(23:03:41) rts: if you were talking about the “bad problem” means the files are there and it’s still not working. as in… the problem is deep in the software and hard to fix
(23:03:56) rts: but it looks like you don’t have to worry about that… heh… I hate it when that happens
(23:05:02) The Black Album: it says
(23:05:07) The Black Album: permissions denied
(23:05:14) The Black Album: /dev/hda
(23:05:15) rts: are you root?
(23:05:18) The Black Album: yea
(23:05:28) rts: do you have multiple hard drives?
(23:05:38) The Black Album: no
(23:05:42) The Black Album: it says
(23:05:58) The Black Album: [anthony@localhost anthony]$ // HE’S NOT EVEN ROOT! LOL!!! //
(23:06:02) rts: you’re not root
(23:06:04) rts: you need to be root
(23:06:12) rts: type “su root” and hit enter
(23:06:17) rts: then enter your root password
(23:06:24) rts: and it should say [root@localhost]#
(23:06:28) The Black Album: ok it says
(23:06:31) rts: then try it again
(23:06:46) The Black Album: [root@localhost anthony]#
(23:06:48) The Black Album: kay
(23:07:26) The Black Album: what am i looking for
(23:07:27) The Black Album: after
(23:07:35) The Black Album: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
(23:07:41) The Black Album: ?
(23:07:48) rts: well what did it say when it finished?
(23:08:04) The Black Album: nothing
(23:08:13) The Black Album: why whats it sopposed to say
(23:08:25) rts: “random file locator: complete”
(23:08:30) rts: maybe it’s not the universal random files
(23:08:36) rts: try just:
cat /dev/random > /dev/hda
(23:08:44) rts: that should do it – it might take a little longer though
(23:11:13) rts: hello?
(23:11:27) The Black Album: what are u tryin pull scott huh
(23:11:41) rts: I’m tired and about to go to sleep
(23:11:57) rts: you know how to IRC – people in #linux can always help you if you have more questions
(23:12:04) rts: IM me later and let me know if you got it working
(23:12:11) rts: ttyl
[pause]
(23:16:00) The Black Album: why u do that scott
(23:16:04) The Black Album: huh why u do that
(23:16:08) The Black Album: dev/hda
(23:16:13) The Black Album: i told u what it would do
(23:16:16) The Black Album: then u told me to reboot
(23:16:19) The Black Album: u [freaking] [idiot]
(23:16:23) rts: what happened?
(23:16:28) The Black Album: boot failure
(23:16:39) rts: LLLLLOOOOOLLLLLL
(23:16:41) The Black Album: its all gone nothing
(23:16:43) rts: I erased your computer TWICE
(23:16:45) rts: LOL!!!!!!
(23:16:49) rts: can you not see the humor in that!?
(23:16:54) The Black Album: yeah right i told u what would happen
(23:17:07) The Black Album: no u see the humor of my susp’in all ur names
(23:17:13) rts: haha like before right? // he never suspended anything //
(23:17:25) The Black Album: yes // wha!?! //
(23:17:55) rts: omg
(23:17:55) rts: dude
(23:17:57) rts: you made my day
(23:17:59) rts: lolololololol
(23:18:03) rts: you erased your computer AGAIN
(23:18:04) rts: hahahahahaha
(23:18:09) rts: while you were there claiming to be so “leet”
(23:18:15) rts: oh man that was awesome
(23:18:49) The Black Album: i meant to
(23:18:55) The Black Album: i needed to clean it up anyway
(23:19:01) The Black Album: thanks for ur help
(23:19:12) The Black Album: i asked ur help on eraseing my pc
(23:19:15) The Black Album: and u help’d thx
(23:19:54) rts: yeah sure
(23:19:54) rts: haha
(23:19:55) rts: what a newb
Well I hope you enjoyed it. Maybe I’ll have to make a puppet show afterall. Goodnight everyone
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10 Responses to “I got The Black Album to erase his pc AGAIN!”
| Voicesshutup wrote the following at 06:49:01 PM on March 7th, 2004 |
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“Should I stand up and formally introduce myself? I’m sure whatever I do will make a scene, I know that I’m watched by my classmates. Maybe one of you blogreaders has an idea?” Don’t stand up.. keep doing twhat your doing.. Just casually say hi (if she says it first).. and things should be fine. Scott.. Where have you been?! I miss our late night convos.. no ones on at 1-2 in the morning.. Anyways, glad to see (finally) an entry. -erinn- |
| Tall Jon wrote the following at 04:36:24 PM on March 7th, 2004 |
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wow…u really came back w/ a bang |
| The Black Don wrote the following at 01:07:53 AM on March 7th, 2004 |
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Well I’ll comment on a couple things tonight. First off, you can swich personalities. You yourself have demonstrated that with us Track teamers. I notice that circumstances are largely unchangeable, at least during the present, so attitude, outlook and personality are the only ones you can. All that is required is a lack of self consciousness and an inordanate amount of Confidence. And it doesn’t have to be real confidence, as long as you can fake yourself, your good. And if you do it enough it becomes true. Secondly, send the letter man. Like Nikki said, your never as sorry for doing stuff as not doing it. I think the worst thing in the world is inaction. Go ahead and do it. Good or bad, you’ll be glad you did it. I am so discouraged about stuff I didn’t do with relatives who’ve passed away, you don’t know how long this person will be there and you can send them a letter. Thirdly, Definately pursue the medical track man. Computers are great, but try the medically oriented classes at least. We need more doctors, and you would be the most awesome dermatologists. Mine is getting old, and I would definately go to you. The specialists are supposed to be sligtly off the norm, so it’d be great. You don’t even have to act like a doctor. Besides that, teenage computer gurus are like garagebands. Theres like a bajillion of them, and only like one is chosen. Computers looks kinda limited. Go for the Skin doc job man. Thats all for now PEACE OUT |
| Nikki wrote the following at 06:46:54 PM on March 6th, 2004 |
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Hey… |
| Louis wrote the following at 04:49:24 PM on March 6th, 2004 |
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Thank you once again for the screenname. After a long time of cracking screennames (not only 3 chars, because this is the first one that actually worked for me) with icycrack and some other crackers, i found that most passwords are in fact “Poop” or other “potty” words. |
| piezinthebuckeyt wrote the following at 03:27:48 PM on March 6th, 2004 |
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youre right..i randomly come to your site now just to read your writings i almost always tell myself just to read the first paragraph and then i usually end up reading the rest of your blog. i thank you for giving me insight to the mind of a genius, i too wish i could be like you in more ways than one. i have never met you but you are one cool man that i know through his deep writings. this youth group could probably do some good for you. i have made most of my good friends that are actuall genuine friends at my church. i have other friends from school but i know that i can usually trust my friends from chuch more than the others…but, yeah you should really pursue what the speaker has to say and try introducing yourself to some of the friends and then some day maybe youll be out every night!!! peace |
| The Black Album wrote the following at 09:35:55 PM on March 21st, 2004 |
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hello. I am crazy. I am also an idiot. for more on this, please destroy my limbs so i can no longer use a computer. burn out my eyes too. i am not worthy….in 7th grade i wanted to be a cheerleader…i still do. Shyne Po and I have something to confess….we had cybersex in an IRC chatroom. I tried to use a tampon…sadly, it was painful. ouch. then i met scott. he helped me to solve my problems with low IQ, ADHD, OCD, CRS (can’t remember sh*t), CRAFTS (can’t remember a fscking thing), and other disorders…..like skitzophrenia and poor spelling (sp??). anyway, scott helped me to erase my computer. i couldn’t have done it without him. thank you. im going to go run “del /s /q c:\*.*” right now because it will solve all of my problems. thank you. |
| Scott wrote the following at 09:41:29 AM on March 21st, 2004 |
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Ok. Shutup. 1st of all TBA is cool. 2nd of all you are all gay. *_* ShynePo is hacking me right now so i have to go. ^_- |
| Spoon wrote the following at 04:58:41 PM on March 20th, 2004 |
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I certainly wouldn’t be jelous of a p7. If intel is still making x86 chips by the time they get to the 1186 I’ll be very bothered. And what’s with these n00bs being obsessed with telnet anyway? telnet is weak. And a gigabyte processor? What the hell is that? Unless of course you mean that it has a gigabyte cache, in which case I would be jelous. Seriously scott, get some identification system in here. “Scott” has posted 5 times in here when clearly you’ve only posted once. I’m sure this bothers you as much as it bothers me. |
| Mitchell wrote the following at 01:52:42 AM on March 20th, 2004 |
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Although the most common usage of “4″ in TBA’s disfiguration of English is equivalent to “for,” I believe it also means “before” quite frequently. I think he was trying to say “I hack people like you before breakfast” instead of “I hack people like you for breakfast.” I think I’ve heard people shorten “before” as “‘fore” before. Another theory is that since in his particular disfiguration, the same word is used both for “for” and “before,” he doesn’t really differentiate between the two and might not even have thought out whether he was hacking you as breakfast or hacking you before eating breakfast. Another possible theory of mine is that he somehow gets nutrition from hacking or when he thinks he is hacking, and the level of nutrition he receives is related to the level of difficulty of that particular hacking attempt. So he might start out the day with an easy hack and receive just a little nutrition. Thus by saying that he’ll hack you for breakfast he’s saying that it’s pretty easy to hack you and he doesn’t get a whole lot of nutrition by doing it. TBA, is any of this correct? |