Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ...
by pixl97 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:26AM
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This is along the lines of my early days learning about computers at school. I saw executables were filled with weird junk when looked at in a text viewer. So I'd load a little of that junk in a file and add
CRITICAL DISK ERROR. TURN OFF SYSTEM TO AVOID CATASTROPHIC DATA LOSS
and then printed it out to a system printer students didn't have access too. So you got a page of random symbols and that error.
Little did I know the company adding more computers to the network was there that day and the guy panicked and had the system shut down, it was down the next day too. I never did ask what happened to bring attention to myself, and this was before we had individual accounts in the system.
CRITICAL DISK ERROR. TURN OFF SYSTEM TO AVOID CATASTROPHIC DATA LOSS
and then printed it out to a system printer students didn't have access too. So you got a page of random symbols and that error.
Little did I know the company adding more computers to the network was there that day and the guy panicked and had the system shut down, it was down the next day too. I never did ask what happened to bring attention to myself, and this was before we had individual accounts in the system.