This is really not a Perl prank ... but it is a nasty trick to pull on vi people. You put append a line that contains only a "~" character on it to a source code file. >:)))) | [reply] |
Won't work if they use vim with syntax highlighting :)
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There was an excellent thread on PerlMonks a few months back about a sysadmin messing with their users by making fake shells (check SuperSearch). My suggestion was to write something that made 1/10th of the presses of the 'W' key be eaten, so it didn't work all of the time. This would be really cool as it would be broken on *multiple* keyboards, and possibly you could do this to affect only certain IP's. For more fun, make random hits of the 'W' key print multiple 'W''s. This might be harder to implement than it looks, as you have to do a very good job of feeding the 'real' shell.
Be careful about your job, though!
Another one, oft thrown about is to change your user's favorite shell in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/wumpus or maybe one of the famous 'Text Adventure Shells'.
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There was an excellent thread on PerlMonks a few months back...
That was Playful Perl.
-QM
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of
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I'd comment on this, but I just lost a whole bunch of experience points (ten points at a time), and now I'm afraid to post anything.....
;-)
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matija i think, this might be an april fool's joke, since losing xp seems to be common today...
but just to help cheer ya up, you'll have my day's allotment of votes (12) on your
posts. :-)
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I've been pranked!!!!
OK, that explains why I lost 50 experience points just by refreshing my personal node (the pictures kept changing so I kept refreshing).
Oh, give me a break, it's still early in the morning and I haven't had my coffee yet!
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