Egotistical physics teacher...
Picture this - Windows 95 has just been released and one day we wander into our physics lesson, only to be confronted with this awesome machine of power running Windows 95. We thought it was the dogs. We weren't allowed to touch it.

One day sat there in class, the teacher locks the screen after fiddling with something on the PC. I proudly say "I bet I can hack that PC". Everyone in the class gasped - this was the teachers pride and joy. The egotistical knobhead said "Yeah right, I bet you don't even know where the power switch is."

I decided to reply with "OK, next time you leave the room, I bet you I can hack into it and break it."

Oh dear oh dear - his ego wouldn't let this go so he accepted.

20 minutes later he announced that he'd be back in 5 minutes. It was on. As soon as he left (with the screen locked on the screensaver) I immediately pulled the plug, then plugged it back in. F8 to boot into DOS mode.

cd windows
erase *.*
y
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That was it - when he came back, he saw the PC turned off. He turned it on, and BANG! Couldn't load as the windows directory was empty. His face just fell and went white as a sheet as everyone in the class laughed at him, and I was suddenly and briefly the class hero for knocking the smug bastard down a peg or two.

He couldn't admit to IT that he'd ended up allowing a pupil to knowingly fuck up the computer. It took him weeks to get it reinstalled and he always treated me with a very cold stare after that.
(Morrolan, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 13:36, 6 replies)

good bit of 'hacking' there

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 13:52, closed)

Are you
David Lightman?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 14:03, closed)

'erase'?
Isn't it 'del' or maybe 'rm'?

Or am I on the wrong version of DOS?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 8 Sep 2011, 15:13, closed)

Erase is a legit DOS command, just that most people preferred to use Del.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 14:03, closed)

I don't even think this story is true
You should have added a few more explosions to make it more interesting.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 15:48, closed)

Hmmm
Shouldn't that command have /Q /F to make it work?
(zebby wasting irony here on, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 16:33, closed)