- focus the browser and make Google error out on a search query that was too damn long. the query, perhaps unsurprisingly but definitely ominous, consisted of nothing but 66666666666666 ad infinitum.
- stopping the playing song in MOC, then playing Aerosmith's 'Crazy' instead.*
- getting my keyboard all hairy.
this morning i walked into the room and wondered why the hell my laptop sounded like a vacuum cleaner, only to discover she was chilling on the keyboard again. the terminal was filled with weird characters, and i had to close it down to be able to continue doing anything. then my browser crashed, and my system refused to reboot. i pulled the plug, reinserted it, and booted up. i still haven't set up the getty-thingy to auto-start X, so as always i did this manually. however, X refused to start up, citing a lack of diskspace. so i did a 'df' and got this:
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[10:52:11]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 29G 29G 0G 100% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 402M 568K 402M 1% /run
/dev/sda5 29G 29G 0G 100% /
tmpfs 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1005M 0 1005M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/sda4 99G 82G 13G 87% /media/storage
i then did a 'du -h / | grep '[0-9]G' to see which directory was so dogdamned huge it stopped me from doing anything. i bet some of you already guessed: /var/log
turns out the cat just produced 5,1G worth of error messages, which get logged in the /var/log/messages, /var/log/kernel.log and /var/log/syslog, producing a total of 16G of logfiles.
i deleted the files and rebooted, and everything is back to normal now. the cat is staring at me from a safe distance with a look of faked guilt and obvious sadism in her bright green eyes. fuck you, keyboardcat.
* incidentally, i was having sex with my GF when this happened, and since that moment 'Crazy' has become a favorite. so i suppose i have keyboardcat to thank for that one.