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We had a lot of fun with this in University 20 years ago. Our computer lab had a handful of shiny new Sun Sparcstations. The freshmen would regularly end up hog
by morganpyne 15y ago
We had a lot of fun with this in University 20 years ago. Our computer lab had a handful of shiny new Sun Sparcstations. The freshmen would regularly end up hogging them (no timelimit) and we needed them for project work, so we'd just remote login to them and cat some pre-recorded messages out to /dev/audio. A very official-sounding "Please log out now, system going down for maintenance" usually worked wonders, although occasionally more serious messing with people's minds was done. Some of the 1st year students had literally no idea what a computer was capable of and would believe anything that came out of its speakers. :D
- juiceandjuice 15y agoOn a tangent... I remotely logged into my computer at the dorms once and opened up the webcam and microsoft speech assistant thing. I started talking to my roommate based on how he responded, and played some rage against the machine really loud. He thought the computer was possessed (he wasn't that bright overall). Anyways, when I saw him pick up the web cam and slam it into the desk I figured I better start running back the half mile to the dorms before he destroyed the whole thing. I wish I would have recorded it.
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- lloeki 15y agoOn Mac OS X a common trick is to ssh into the box and use `say(1)`.