I had a UNIX practical joke pulled on me that was absolutely
insidious: the perpetrator simply changed my .profile to
include a stty call to change my wake-up character from a
newline to a space. The effect was that if I typed a command
in correctly everything worked, but if I 'kill'ed the line
or tried to delete characters, only the last parameter would
be deleted. He had me going for WEEKS trying to figure out
what was wrong with the system...
insidious: the perpetrator simply changed my .profile to
include a stty call to change my wake-up character from a
newline to a space. The effect was that if I typed a command
in correctly everything worked, but if I 'kill'ed the line
or tried to delete characters, only the last parameter would
be deleted. He had me going for WEEKS trying to figure out
what was wrong with the system...
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... - Federal Aviation Agency,
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Gentlemen:
I was asked to make a written statement concerning... - LIFE IN THE SLAW LANE
by Kip Adotta
It was Cucumber the First;
Summer was over. I had just spinached a long day and... - Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to watmath!looking!funny .
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unseen,, *** EOOH *** Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 17:08... - These are computer-related practical jokes played by an old
acquaintence years ago at a nameless university in Northern
California.
He wisened up and stopped playing them when the various... - YOUR CO-WORKER COULD BE A SPACE ALIEN, SAY EXPERTS .
here's how you can tell (by Michael Cassels of the... - 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...
From the same category:
- One good practical joke that I've seen done to somebody:
1) Take an old record album cover. 2) Fill the insides... - Enter subscriptions in his name to the most filthy homo/bondage/snuff
> magazines you can find,
and change his address by one so his NEIGHBOR > ... - 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... - When I was at Burroughs Corp., a couple of co-workers got into a get-even
contest with each others' toolboxes,
including such niceties as: --Filling toolbox with... - Another good practical joke taken from the "Tippy Turtle" series on Saturday
Night Live is as follows:
Take one of those musical grreting cards (the type...
