[ale] OT: Pranks are out

[Robert L. Harris]

  At one time we had about 20 Noc staff, Tier one and Tier two network
support staff. Well I arranged to modify a couple commands on their 
computers.  If they ran "ls" "cp" or some other basic commands it would 
run "sl" in stead which runs an ascii train across your screen.  But 
then it would replace the executed command with the real one immediately.
An at job would at a random time replace the binary again and reset 
itself to run some random time later again.  They looked for us logging 
into their machines and crons but they never looked for "at" jobs.  
Took em a while to find it.

  One of my co-workers ran "xjitter" I believe it was but he had a week
or so in advance modified all their profiles to open xhost+ for his
workstation so he could remotely run the xjitter on his machine and for
some random durration, for a random "size of jitter" at a random repeat
level jitter their mice, a couple at a time, randomly.  About drove them
nuts.


Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):

> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/06/2140227.shtml?tid=123&tid=95
> 
> I can't believe they busted him for that.  Years ago I did the following
> to the staff that worked in the print room of my school.
> 
> 
> for(x=0; x <= 100; x++) {
>  open PRINTER, "LPT1:";
>  print PRINTER "\014";
>  close PRINTER;
> }
> 
> I wrote my original loop in basic. 
> 
> I did have a teacher I did not like.  I found out the printer in her
> office and executed this loop:
> 
> open PRINTER, "LPT1:";
> for(x=0; x <= 100; x++) {
>   print PRINTER "\014";
> }
> close PRINTER;
> 
> 100 pages came shooting out of the printer.
> 
> The first loop was written because if I send one print job with 100 form
> feeds to the printer then the print staff could easily delete that job.
> They could never delete 100 print jobs with one FF.  They usually came
> out of the room screaming. I can still picture it in my head.
> 
> Maybe you guys can share a prank or two that you pulled off in the past.
> 
> 
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