I'm scared to run the program I wrote

It's a simple idea, but there just isn't one already.

I'm not a wonderful hacker: the code looks like shit.

Now I've gotten to the point that it should work. The pieces have finally come together to the point where I should be able to just tell it to go, sit back, and watch my hard drive totally change.

But I haven't. For the last half an hour, I've been sitting here trying to figure out if there's some problem I'm not aware of, or what fail-safes I can quickly hack into it.

If it works, I will have a hard drive with all the files defragmented, but with free space scattered around at random intervals. I think I can correct that by just making multiple passes over the drive.

But if it fails, I lose 3 megs of data.

Sometimes also said by a user who fears the idea that maybe, just maybe, he really did write bug-free code.

(But for some reason, I don't think this is what the person who wrote the Internet Worm said.)

The last message recieved from the bot-creation compound at E2 headquarters.

It is believed that the program spontanaeously compiled and executed itself, before assimilating all entities within the compound.

Luckily, nate, dem bones and others *may their names be sung forever* trapped this errant bot in the twisted web known as the Chatterbox, where it plots the downfall of E2.

Update - EDB is nothing to be afraid of, please do not be alarmed.
Sit quietly and wait to be assimilated.

Stop noding.
NOW