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Help me crash my computer so I can use Windows again!

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slave:
I'm sick of it running for so long.  You see, I made a bet with a friend that I wouldn't reboot Linux until it crashed, and it's been over two weeks now and nothing's happened!!

as you can see:

]$ uptime
 11:35pm  up 14 days, 14:36,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04

I need to reboot into windows but I can't until the damn OS crashes!  I played Warcraft III for hours on end and left it running all night and it didn't lock up.  I've tried all the bizarre console commands I know short of "rm -Rf /" and even that wouldn't cut it because we agreed that the only things that would be considered "crashing" would be either a kernel panic or if X locked up so badly you couldn't move the mouse or use the keyboard.  So can anyone help??

voidmain:
Is the game to only have normal user access or can you do things as root as well? Otherwise you might be waiting a while. My server is back up to 141 days after the power failure. Before that it was ~490 days as you've heard me say many times..

[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

slave:
I can go root, but I don't want to crash it in a way that will screw up my system.  (ie, I don't want to delete system files or anything)

voidmain:
Hmmmm, I thought maybe deleting the "/tmp/.X11-unix/X0" file might do it but it didn't. It did freeze up but I was able to CTRL+ALT+BKSPC to kill the X server in which case it recreated the X0 socket and brought me back to a graphical login where everything worked fine again. Hmmmm, I can't think of a way off the top of my head without actually destroying something as root.

Calum:
pull the mains lead out, although why you would want to go back to windows is beyond me...

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