It was clear the principal had no idea what this "Linux" thing was, but the IT person did his best to make it as spooky and evil as possible unfortunately.
I don't remember what came of it, but later in the year a computer virus hit a few computers in the school, and I distinctly remember a multiple people thinking I had done it...
Of course I would never, I was the last person who would want a run in with that IT guy again all. But no call into the office that time, and in retrospect I wouldn't be surprised if it was a simple misconfiguration being called a "virus" since it allegedly only affected teachers' classroom PCs
I’ll open a terminal in my university courses and take notes in vim just to see people’s reactions.
Even better, doing anything with a lot of stdout. Fast scrolling text in a terminal freaks out a lot of people.
Try compiling GCC during your lecture
It listed all the built in help, basically masses of text scrolling down the screen. I assume the teacher thought I was hacking the computers or something, scared them.
To be fair, I was hacking the computers, but not when they were watching. Turns out the password file used very simple reversible encryption, but we only used our powers for good, and games.
Linux does sound evil, is it from one of those eastern european countries? I hear it's like communism
He was honest and had a crowd of people around him including staff as he did it, which was No Fun At All.