Lucky For My Siblings That Homicide Is Illegal
This will be a short post, as I don’t trust myself to write anything that properly conveys my rage without murdering a member of my family. I like to download my TV shows. My sister likes to watch TV shows. Occasionally stuff I download and stuff she likes to watch overlap. This is what I refer to as the “Oh Shit” zone. Problems that arise in the Oh Shit zone usually happen when someone, in this case my sister, wants to use one of my machines, and has no idea how to. I guess she experimented and figured out I had a dropdown documents folder, and somehow got into my videos, and subsequently my TV. This is where Windows Syndrome kicked in.
Windows Syndrome is what I call the computer using habits of Windows users. They like everything to be all GUI friendly and clicky. My machine is not like that. At all. I play all my movies and whatnot from CLI. I barely use a GUI file browser. It stands to reason that I was unaware that the standard action for clicking a media file was that it would open in SMPlayer, a decent GUI for mplayer, and a SHIT GUI for mplayer-uau. I use mplayer-uau. I happened to go out last night with some friends before the new semester starts, and when I returned home, I remembered that I had left my SD keyring in my machine, and that it was completely unlocked and in KDE. This is where I got a bad feeling.
On reaching my computer, I prepared for the worst. I didn’t prepare enough. What greeted me was KDE, with no window borders, dmesg shitting bricks, conky going crazy, and a completely unresponsive desktop. Ctrl+Alt+fn+F2′ing to VT2 (sorry, apple keyboard) revealed something I did not expect. A shitload of smplayer cache processes, AND A BURNT OUT CORE. How in the hell did my sister manage to burn out a core by just watching a video in a player that throws a minor segfault on good days?
This is where I got a bit scared. I looked at the hostname, and that was when shit hit the fan. This was not my desktop, this was my main rendering box. An octocore Xeon setup. A very expensive octocore Xeon setup. I didn’t pay anywhere near full price as I got it second-hand but it still cost me rather a lot. I’ve since disabled the core in /sys/devices/system/cpu/online but I’m still running some tests on my beautiful ECC registered RAM and my Quadro 4800 but I am hoping extremely hard that it was just the CPU. Needless to say she won’t pay for it.
On the side, and this is just icing on the cake, she got pasta sauce or something on my insanely sexy scope node mouse. I laughed at that. Then I remote wiped her laptop. Petty vengeance is so satisfying. That concludes this episode of Emess Hates People Who Touch His Stuff.
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