I found a similar file to this (a zip file that contains itself) and e-mailed it to a friend at work. He never received it, but I thought nothing of it (I assumed the email filters just destroyed it). A days later the mail server stops working and the sysadmin turns up at my desk. Turns out the anti-virus scanner had been unzipping and scanning repeatedly. It eventually filled up the entire disk and bad things happen…
That reminds me of an incident when I was in year 8: seeing how deeply nested I could get directories on Windows. H:\a\a\a\a\..., eventually it stopped working. (I played the game with my friend... he went for creating a new directory at each level, after a little I became sensible and went for copying and pasting, thus multiplying the depth by two each level which of course achieves the goal pretty quickly - so I wo…
EPS, an interpreted language, was designed to let financial analysts run economic projections. It contained various kinds of arrays.
One day, the systems programmers announced a new feature, first released to the test mainframe: a new structure, called containers IIRC, with the twist being that any cell in a container could itself consist of a container.
You know where this is going:
For I = 1 to 100
ContX[1] = ContX
EndFOR
So far, my cover was my inquiring mind. But then I ran the loop again, with the same results.
A minute later, there was Massachusetts on the phone, in the person of my friend Kevin, lead EPS developer: "Hey, the answer is 47. What the hell are you doing?"