The Laptop from Hell

[Voltage Spike]

I remember you telling me how much your camera and all of its accessories cost and it was almost as much as my car. But hey it takes amazing pictures.

I'm guessing you own a Scion because I can't think of any other designer that would manufacture a car that takes pictures...

[Beginner]

My high-priced (2.5k with all accessories)camera is not digital, it is just a 35mm NIKON.

[TwinVega]

I think we already did that last year.. twinvega left his laptop with us... logged in with admin rights...
/me wonders if he ever found all the stuff we did...

haha, yea...
funny story really...it wasn't my laptop.
I won't name any names.....

[kryptonite0110]

If we had such a contest, I think spyware makers would try to recruit them to make even more annoying software. :-P

Funny concept for a contest. :-)

No i think we should recruit the spyware makers

With that last sentence, I think it needs to run Windows too. :>

i think it would be a lot more satisfying to mess up a nice *nix system, for all the times it did what i told it to do

ideas for an *nix system:
-install modules that freeze the machine
-make a blue screen of death (as one doesn't already exist)
-have a list of kernels in lilo that link to /dev/null with the name "linux-2.6.13["n"]"
so that the end user has to guess which kernel to use (because real users don't make boot disks)
-unplug the keyboard (if it's a laptop)

[skroo]

I'm keen on applying recommended procedures in ways they were never, ever intended to be used. Two that spring to mind immediately: remapping root's home directory to /var/empty - then denying console login. Also setting apache's htdocs directory to something fun like /dev/zero or /dev/urandom could be interesting.

Then there's always adding something like 'init 0' to rc.local, or appending 'logout' to .bash_profile...

[dataworm]

I'd say rename ls as dir, and change the prompt to c:\

[TheCotMan]

On a *NIX system, setup a chroot/newroot for post-boot for a CLI only where all commands exist by name, but map to either "kill -9 -0" or for commands requiring files, map to "rm -rf"

Then, maybe abuse ld preload with some apps to randomly call reboot.

[bascule]

How about the P-P-P-Powerbook?

[astcell]

At this rate it is going to be a challenge to successfully install all these ideas without crashing yourself out!

[allentrace]

At this rate it is going to be a challenge to successfully install all these ideas without crashing yourself out!

Are you backing out of the challenge then?

[astcell]

Are you backing out of the challenge then?

Not at all. I hope to be grading it. :>

[IcEbLAze]

How about the P-P-P-Powerbook?

This is one of the greatest bedtime stories ever.

[Ridirich]

In windows: Format the harddrive, then put a USBDrive in the side of the laptop and install Windows XP. It will set the harddrive as D. Remove the USBDrive and make sure to set the typing language to korean. Set the typing speed to sloooooow, but the curser speed to blink insanely fast. Set the mouse to slow as well, but the clicking speed to max. Oh, and if you plan on making the desktop image huge, make sure it's a hot chick. No one would think of getting rid of the hot chick ;)

[astcell]

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