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>In article <33920@mirror.UUCP> gar...@prism.TMC.COM (Gary E. Piatt) writes:
>>Adam Glass writes:
>>=>Does anyone out there have any great revenge stories? I was wondering
>>=>what to give a particular sys admin (who is absolutely, universally
>>=>hated with a passion) when I graduate this spring.

Well, there's this classic. It's a variant on the RHBOMB mentioned in
Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib". Harmless and funny.

	Create a file named PASSWORDS.TXT or SECRET.PSW or something similar.
	Make it readable. (Or, if he has got privvs, protected).
	Fill the file with the text "GOTCHA!" followed by 100000 <BEL>.
	Wait.

If you want a more brutal revenge, try a variant on this, which I pulled
on one of my colleauges for unwittingly killing my EMACS process on a VMS
system some years ago (with reservations for errors):

	Call a command file from his LOGIN.COM doing something like:
	- define the DIR command to echo the string
	"%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found"
	- echo something like:
	"%LOGIN-S-LGNFDE, fatal system disk error"
	"%LOGIN-S-DIRFUL, directory full"
	"%LOGIN-W-delufl, deleting user files"
	- list his files

At a computer center where I worked many years ago, we took a more
hardwarily revenge on one old man who insisted on using SOS (a
brain-damaged line editor) instead of EMACS on his fine
VT100-compatible screen terminal. After 6 months of escalating
persuations (including batch jobs printing hints on his terminal, and
him running other jobs using his privvs to shoot down ours), we put
one of those piezoelectric xmas-card melody chips in his keyboard,
connected to LED 1. (the voltage over a lighted LED is enough to drive
those CMOS chips, which runs on anything from a battery to nickel plus
some foot sweat). Then we patched SOS, so it turned on LED 1 when
started, and turned it off on exit. His terminal now plays xmas songs
when he runs SOS.

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