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stimac@strider.uucp (Michael Stimac) writes:
>Rube included in the next release of
>IPL, an additional feature, such that, when it was running
>a job for THIS manager a deliberate delay would be taken
>after each I/O operation. The amount of delay was minuscule,
>but was increased each and every calendar day!

There's a modern variant of this for graphic workstations that can
be entertaining.  Start a demon process on someone's workstation that
gradually changes the mouse-velocity (or mouse-acceleration) upward,
then downward, then upward... with a period of a couple of hours.
They'll have a migraine by the end of the day.  And apparently it's
subliminal enough that people don't notice - they may keep
disassembling the mouse to clean the mouseball, though.

Under X-windows you can do this with XChangePointerControl.

[Mouse velocity is the ratio of the movement of the physical mouse
to the movement of the pointer on the screen.  When it's too high, tiny
movements of the mouse will fling the pointer across the screen.  When
it's too low, you have to slide the mouse across three feet of desktop
to move the pointer halfway across the screen.]