Hi, On Monday 11 October 2004 18:50, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03.39, James Knott wrote:
In one place where I worked, we'd take a single strand of wire from AC power cable and wrap it around the pins on someone's power plug, and wait for him to plug it in.
In high school electronics shop, we'd charge a capacitor to a about 200V and toss it to someone.
When I was a kid I reached into the high voltage cage of a television. I was sure that overnight was long enough for the charge to bleed off. Wrong!!
And many years ago, I was taking a course on the Datapoint 2200, which used cassettes for data storage. I'd wait until someone was almost finished typing in his program code, and then "accidentally" trip over the power cord, before he had a chance to save his code. ;-)
You're either dangerously insane or lying through your teeth. Let me guess: "joke ideas I thought up while reading BOFH episodes"
Occam's razor: Don't posit insanity (or sociopathy) when forgetfulness (clumsiness) will explain the symptoms. To wit: When I was an admin in our college Unix lab and responsible for both hardware and software maintenance, on various occasions I: 1) Swapped the arguments on the "dump" command and ended up trashing the first several blocks of the disk (but who needs a boot block or a super block?). 2) Tripped over a power cord. This was during final exam period and the system was under very heavy load. I was not popular that day. And this was a system 6 (or maybe 7) Unix, and there were considerable file system fragilities, especially by comparison to today's crash-robust file systems. 3) Put a good disk pack in a drive that had experienced a head crash, though I didn't know it at the time, of course. But then again, I really should have... Live and learn, I guess. RRS