A program that
crashes in a
spectacular way has
died horribly. Simply
crashing is not sufficient to be called
horrible, the program has to kill several other running processes,
overwrite random parts of the
disc, or
freeze the whole system . Horrible death is rare on
UN*X boxen, fairly uncommon on
windows 95 and
98 systems, and entirely too common on
DOS machines and
Apple IIs. Horrible death is related to
crash and burn, but the latter usually involves corrupting the
video ram, giving a crash with
nifty graphics.
To make your
linux box die horribly run "dd if=
/dev/random of=/dev/kmem" as
root.