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Started by Jonas Flygare
Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:06
Secondhand stories..
Author: Jonas Flygare
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:06
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:06
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These were told to me by my brother in law, and verified by my sister, so I believe there is some truth in them.. My brother in law was studying CS at an American Univ, and had an assignment to write an accounting system for the machine he was on. He got a peeve pi**ed off when he discovered his teacher had sold his assignment to the Univ, claiming he (the teacher) wrote it.. Luckily he had a backdoor to the beastie, (it was rather large) and got in, billing the teacher for some 100x the amount he actually was using the machine. Apart from that, he had access to the machine room, where he connected the wall clock to the machine in question, grounding it once every hour, on the hour.. :-) After two days the teacher was ready to cry.. During finals he was sitting in front of the teleray terminals (this was a while ago) that he actually got snow blind (or whatever I should call it..) He had to get home by walking from one streetlight to another.. :-) (Ok, if anyone recognizes these stories, please give some feedback, as I said, they are secondhand accounts)-- jon...@kuling.docs.uu.se : "Doedth eddydthig dthrike you adth dthrayge Jonas (flax) Flygare : aboud dthidth houdth?" -- Dirk Gently
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