Comments on: UNIX Practical Jokes http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/ im in ur data centrz patchin ur serverz Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Greg http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/#comment-74144 Greg Thu, 22 May 2008 12:11:01 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1274#comment-74144 If you can futz with the networking, the <a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html"Upside-Down-ternet is always good for a laugh. If you can futz with the networking, the <a href=”http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html”Upside-Down-ternet is always good for a laugh.

]]> By: Matt http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/#comment-74138 Matt Wed, 21 May 2008 20:25:11 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1274#comment-74138 I know someone who got mad at his roommate and set his default runlevel to 6... I know someone who got mad at his roommate and set his default runlevel to 6…

]]> By: Bob Plankers http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/#comment-74137 Bob Plankers Wed, 21 May 2008 20:20:50 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1274#comment-74137 I ran that screensaver for a while. Problem was that I got sick of my coworkers coming to meetings and telling me my desktop crashed, ha ha, and then the ensuing argument about how I wasn't even running Windows, so how can I get a BSOD... After a while it just got old. :-) I ran that screensaver for a while. Problem was that I got sick of my coworkers coming to meetings and telling me my desktop crashed, ha ha, and then the ensuing argument about how I wasn’t even running Windows, so how can I get a BSOD… After a while it just got old. :-)

]]> By: Mike http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/#comment-74136 Mike Wed, 21 May 2008 19:52:26 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1274#comment-74136 The old 'Blue Screen of Death' windows screen saver is a classic. It is/was very realistic. The old ‘Blue Screen of Death’ windows screen saver is a classic. It is/was very realistic.

]]> By: Gary http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/05/21/unix-practical-jokes/#comment-74135 Gary Wed, 21 May 2008 18:10:23 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/?p=1274#comment-74135 Back in the Windows 2000 days, a friend of mine write a crafty little program. It mostly slept, but it would randomly wake up and lock control of the keyboard and mouse for half a second or so. The mouse cursor would then jump across the screen. The idea was to make the victim think their system was under a heavy load or needed to be reformatted. The plan was to load it onto the bosses computer and see how long it took to figure it out. Unfortunately, a debug version of the program was loaded that didn't sleep very much and blocked input for more than a second. Needless to say, he figured out we had tampered with his PC within 5 minutes. Back in the Windows 2000 days, a friend of mine write a crafty little program. It mostly slept, but it would randomly wake up and lock control of the keyboard and mouse for half a second or so. The mouse cursor would then jump across the screen. The idea was to make the victim think their system was under a heavy load or needed to be reformatted.

The plan was to load it onto the bosses computer and see how long it took to figure it out. Unfortunately, a debug version of the program was loaded that didn’t sleep very much and blocked input for more than a second. Needless to say, he figured out we had tampered with his PC within 5 minutes.

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