[ale] OT: Pranks are out

[Christopher Fowler]

That is funny about xhost.  I once used that on a coworkers machine and
then used Xmessage to popup general error codes like "General Protection
Fault"

Remember the ping of death.  We had a co worker that we would send the
ping to an it would lock up his 95 machine.  Every time it happened he
blamed me because I was at my desk.  Well....

echo "ping of death" | at now + 3 minutes

I was at the bathroom when it happened again and he never blamed me
after that :)

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:41 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Messing with xhost to allow nefarious access then run xroach of another
> grad student screen. howl with laughter.
> 
> 2-3 packs of mustard and one bag of popcorn into the microwave on high
> for about 5 minutes. The popcorn burns about the same time the mustard
> packs explode. It is almost as effective as tear gas at clearing out the
> computer lab. choke and wheeze out the door to go beg for an extension
> on the program that won't run...
> 
> Still looking for how to add a name (or 2) to the federal "No Fly List".
> That is reserved for truly awful people like a$$**** clients who refuse
> to pay and threaten with bodily harm and .... (lawyers just aren't
> vicious enough sometimes).
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:07 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > 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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