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Saying “sup” with `net send`
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Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you mean suspended? Expulsion is a permaban and means you have to find a new school to attend. In any case, your tenacious dedication to the cause was admirable.
Yes. I was suspended “indefinitely” and after about a week of not hearing from them I just showed back up at school one day. I was escorted to the main office by my teacher who said “uhh bud I don’t think you’re supposed to be here” and then they informed me I was being expelled and sent to a different school. They asked me to write an essay about my experiences during this time, while family came to pick me up, and…
I had an almost identical experience (NN based, cracking SAM files with l0pht, expelled). I always thought the same. My old sysadmins at the school were running (without the administrations awareness) IRC leafs and newsgroup servers, and I would have been happy to be part of that.
I ended up ditching school and starting a business, and I'm glad I did. Despite it ending up positive though, the expulsion still rubs me the wrong way decades later.
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#143I remember doing this during one of my first years of college. I would usually finish the lab assignments early, so I would poke around the computers and see what I could get into. I eventually discovered `net send` on the cli, and read through the help to discover that you could broadcast with a wildcard. So, I promptly ran `net send * All your base are belong to us`. The immediate result was giggles from all around…
> A couple weeks later, the Messenger service was disabled across the campus.
Sounds like it was _for great justice_. ;)
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#144Very funny! I guess is this more of a universal (tech) experience than I had realized: my friends and I spent a lot of time in high school griefing each other with `net send` (and the other `net`) commands. My memory is fuzzy at this point, but I vaguely recall being able to change others' desktop backgrounds with a remote client. That produced a lot of entertainment value.
A classic at my high school was taking a screen shot of the desktop with icons, setting it as the desktop background, then hiding all the desktop icons. Bonus points if you could get the teachers machine
The favorite prank played on me was coworkers changing my wallpaper to a "funny" picture, then renaming *.jpg to *.old and replacing the original *.jpg's with the same "funny" picture. So when I went to change my wallpaper back, it seemed like it didn't work. Harmless (mv *.old *.jpg, slightly more complicated, obviously) and funny!