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I think everybody discovers, and then has fun with, this in their first Systems course on the shared school servers. In mine I discovered something much more fu
by _bxg1 7y ago
I think everybody discovers, and then has fun with, this in their first Systems course on the shared school servers. In mine I discovered something much more fun: https://linux.die.net/man/1/talk https://linux.die.net/man/1/talk
I found some ascii art of the trollface (https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/091/TrollFace.jpg https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/091/Tro...) and saved it to a file, then wrote a script that would find user $1 and infinitely "talk" trollfaces at them, making their terminal completely unusable. Then I'd run it against my friends when we were working in the computer lab :)
Shared Unix systems are rife with prank opportunities
- phamilton 7y ago> Shared Unix systems are rife with prank opportunities My favorite was `cat /dev/dsp > ssh otherbox 'cat > /dev/dsp'` I could talk into my laptop's microphone and it would play over the speakers on my classmate's workstation.
- _bxg1 7y agoAwesome
- flatiron 7y agonet send in high school was pretty hilarious. leave to go get a book in the library and someone is gonna net send from your terminal something dumb to the whole school. took them forever to turn it off