One that's good for a few chuckles with a new user is, while they're away
>from the terminal put a few cute aliases in their .profile, .login,
whatever, for example:
alias ls echo 'ls: command not found.'
or alias vi rm
(The second one is admittedly a bit nastier).
>from the terminal put a few cute aliases in their .profile, .login,
whatever, for example:
alias ls echo 'ls: command not found.'
or alias vi rm
(The second one is admittedly a bit nastier).
Related:
- While in grad school, I was an "assistant" in a lab which contained two
pdp-11/23's running UNIX System 3.
Much of my education came from jokes played on me... - on the subject of practical jokes on the computer, i pulled the following
one.
when i was in college at new mexico tech (located in... - In my younger days, while employed at a warehouse, I was the butt
of the usual practical jokes directed at newcomers.(Fetch me a light-bulb
repair kit,
son;etc) As days passed, I noticed that one of my antagonists... - When I was taking a 300 level computer science class in college
there was a girl in the class that was a good friend of mine,
she was one of those people that was accademiclly briliant... - Lesser Languages The Copier Circuit
Basic,
Fortran, Cobol : These programming languages are well... - 1] 15 digits to dial a local number? He dials 15 digits to connect
to his school computer.
Sounds the recordings studio went a bit over board... - This is a true story told by a friend of mine. It happened to a girl she knew.
There was this girl driving along the highway, when... - A simpler variation was played on me when I was but a mere first-year at U of
Toronto.
One day, I was logged in at a terminal and I left for... - Hi Folks,
The following is a little humour written by Tom Wade of EuroKom
and Eoin Meehan of Printech International plc.
We hope it lightens your day! Distribute or destroy...
