Re: A decade of poor configuration
>Not just the late '80s, when xhost + was still a default. Right into the '90s you could - and inevitably >sometimes did - make someone else's computer burst into song, tell a joke, admonish the user, or >just fart.
One day, my lab’s sysadmin decided to prank me and opened up a Netscape window on my X terminal’s screen with content that raised some questions among the lab’s staff.
Next day, I wanted thank him and sent a video clip on the ever so popular series ”This is how mammals reproduce” on the screen of his workstation. I was kind enough to make sure that there were no students obtaining their logins, neither head of the laboratory making his daily complaint about his mailbox being full, in his room. Nor the sysadmin himself, for that matter. He used to leave door to his room open, though, and loudspeakers swithed on. Did I already mention, that he kept his speakers’ volume turned high? Audio track of the educational piece of video raised some questions among the lab’s staff, too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
