adding slowness and obfuscation

Jeffrey Miller jmiller at batnet.com
Tue May 7 16:15:56 PDT 2002


And 'nice' their own process down.

You might want to adjust their path so that the eater program can have an
innocuous name.

- Not for Attribution

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Wagner" <chrisw at pacaids.com>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: adding slowness and obfuscation


> In their login script set top to run with zero delay between refreshes in
> the background. :)  That's one way.  Make sure it will die when they
logout.
> Or have a script that runs in the background when they login that calls
any
> program that eats cpu in the background, again make sure it'll die when
they
> logout.
>
> Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion, but that's my idea. :)
>
> - Christopher Wagner
> chrisw at pacaids.com
>
> Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
> P.O. Box 9144
> San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
> http://www.pacaids.com/
> (415) 454-4868 x116
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dolo724 at softhome.net [mailto:dolo724 at softhome.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:37 AM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: adding slowness and obfuscation
>
>
> One member of our household has a 1.8GHz RedHat 7.2 workstation, makes it
> easy to administer and solves many problems when I have to interrupt a
small
> child who's playing a game.
>
> We're also into pranks... and here's the question: I'd like to slow the
> machine down for only one user, say from 1.8 GHz to 180MHz or slower. Any
> Ideas?
>
> Indeed, it's not really ethical, but a good prank well executed is its own
> reward.
>
> Thanks
> Mike Rice
>
>



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