I understand it has something to do with "all your base are belong to us" but i don't understand why...

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=328

chown -R us ./base

huh? o_0

Someone wanna explain?

Explanation: chown- change ownership of a file/group of files. R - make it recursive on all files. Us - the party who is now getting ownership ./base - what is getting a change in ownership. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !

Edit: I have no idea what "All your base belong to us" is, nor any of the above lingo, although I have heard the former before, and I think Hellraiser tried to explain it to me in English one day, but I guess I forgot. Anyway, the above explanation was taken and revised from the comment page below the image of the t-shirt.
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Accurate and complete details and origin of "AYBABTU" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us)

TGFW(ikipedia)

What does "make it recursive on all files" mean?

And what is this shirt supposed to mean?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/EngrishSweatshirt.jpg

It means you're a chicken rooter.

my neck is sore

that my friend, is unix.

./base means ALL the files/subdirectories in the BASE folder(of the server or docroot)

-R changes the permissions of the files to a new parent file.

us is the new owner of the "base" files

chown is a command in unix that changes ownership of files.

so as far as i know its a unix script telling the program 'chown' to assign all files in the base folder to the new owner "us"

get it?

Yeah. Thanks