» Petty Sabotage

Waaaaahhhhhh!!!!
Back in the early / mid '80s, when WH Smiths and Boots etc. sold 8 bit computers, me and a mate used to go in on a Saturady afternoon and bash in a quick BASIC proggy that went something along the lines of:

10 for blah=0 to 50000 (Can't remember how high it had to be for a decent delay)
20 next blah
30 whatever commands needed for yukky noise at full volume
40 goto 40 cuz some of them used to stop singing when the prog ended.

Then we hit run and turned up the volume on the portable tellys to full before retiring to minimum safe distance. This was crap with the speccy & best on the Atari 800XL.


A while ago I got made redundant from the software company I was working for. After a few pints that evening I remoted in via the "template" VPN account I had created a long time before. I changed the mail admin's password, disabled the auto update on the anti virus server and deleted all the documents I had written on how to do stuff in the event of me leaving the company. Had to go in again to disable logging on the VPN server and delete the logs. Got a call a couple of weeks later asking if I knew the mail admin's passy... I had, of course, forgotten.

Just realised that this would also have fucked the mail server backups. Bonus!
(Thu 5th May 2005, 19:14, More)