[ale] OT: Deluxe office accommodations for the paranoid

[Scott Castaline]

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On 04/03/2012 11:02 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> That last reminds of the time years ago where I modified a guy's 
> autoexec.bat to run c1s instead of cls.  The latter is the old DOS 
> clear screen and was typically in autoexec.bat as last command. The
> former made it run a file I'd created called c1s.bat which changed
> his prompt to "Barry can't find me".   He had told me he was as
> good at computers as I was but he never figured out what was 
> setting his prompt.   I finally told him where it was when he was 
> about to reload the OS to get rid of it.  :-)
> 
That reminds me of when I was working for Harris Computer Systems in
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. They used a terminal for the console (I think
Adtec(?)) that had several different colored lighted panels that
indicated terminal/system status. Also the systems they made had a
control panel with LEDs for all bits on the Data Bus (normal run mode)
along with several switches such as Halt, Master Clear & Reset. The
name of the OS was Vulcan and on a system shutdown the system would
display Vulcan Quiescent on the console terminal and the LEDs on the
control panel would be toggeling in a reptitive pattern on the lower
bits. This signified that it was safe to latch up Master Clear and
power off.

A couple of us had written a script that would cause the system to
display the Vulcan Quiescent message along with displaying the pattern
on the control panel mentioned earlier. When the tech that was
assigned to this particular test station system left for break, we ran
the script. When he returned he saw what appeared to be his system as
having shutdown, so he latched up Master Clear and powered off. The
system was actually running with lots of system files open and being
written too. Remember the days of Sysgen? About 4 hrs later he was
able to continue.

> 
> 
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> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org 
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Ness Sent: 
> Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:24 AM To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Deluxe office accommodations for the 
> paranoid
> 
> On Monday, April 02, 2012 03:42:23 PM Jim Kinney wrote:
>> If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or 
>> wool (duh - same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss 
>> on a small handful of the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
>> 
> Replace  a drawer upside down  (not always practical, but still 
> annoying)
> 
> Rearrange the keys on a keyboard to the order of those on a 
> telephone.
> 
> Place a small piece of tape over the earpiece of an ordinary 
> telephone handset.
> 
> Always keep a large capacitor charged and sitting on your  desk. 
> People can't resist picking it up.
> 
> My favorite though was at the request of my boss to be done to a 
> cow orker who spent too much time goofing off: I removed his 
> soitare game and replaced it with a link to his work program with 
> the icon to Solitaire. 
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