Professor Owns Student Trying To Own
- July 13th, 2007
- 5 Comments
There’s a terrific story over at IT Toolbox that tells of a professor and one of his childish teenage students. Nicknamed “Pima” (for being a pain in his ass), the student would goof off and pretend to be uber-l337 by changing the root password, arguing points in class - you know, that sort of thing. Since all the students’ PCs are netbooted from a central computer in the class, when the prof. discovered root had been changed, he became curious.
Curiosity eventually lead the cat to become mischievous. He recorded some choice sound files with a microphone, wrote a script to play them back, and set the computer’s speaker volume at 75%. To make sure this little brat would be set straight, he even went so far as to pry the volume button off with a pocketknife!
The stage was set. Pima sat down with a shit-eatin grin on his face. Minutes later, three separate files were played at intervals:
-”YOU SHOULDNT HAVE CHANGED MY ROOT PASSWORD BOY!”
-”MY HUMPS! MY HUMPS! MY ITTY BITTY HUMPS!”
-”ATTENTION CLASS. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONT PAY ATTENTION TO THE INSTRUCTOR, CHANGE YOUR ROOT PASSWORD AND COMPLETELY DISREGARD YOUR ASSIGNED WORK. THAT IS ALL.”
Needless to say, Pima got is act together and now shows up to class 5 minutes early. Never mess with your CS teacher. Ever.
Im In Your Leenucks Box Changing Your Password [ITtoolbox]
sam (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“Needless to say, Pima got is act together and now shows up to class 5 minutes early. Never mess with your CS teacher. Ever.”
C’mon guys, do you spell check here or what?
Interesting read.
Anonymous (Who am I?)
1 year ago
sam - Actually, a spell check would not catch that. You need a context-aware grammar checker, which eats a good amount of processing power. Even MS Office only added that in the 2007 rev.
And it’s good to see some skilled CS teachers for a change. Glad to hear it!
Carl (Who am I?)
1 year ago
About MS Office finally getting grammar-aware spell checking: it’s about time. I remember using (and loving) Grammatik on my family’s first computer, a 286. That was an amazing program.
Anyways, fun story. The sound files could have been funnier but the implementation was good, what with removing the volume control.
darkwing (Who am I?)
1 year ago
sam - It’s a reference to the cat macro phenomenon. Dude, next you’re going to complain because “all your base” is ungrammatical, too!
James W. (Who am I?)
1 year ago
The quote in question has nothing to do with the LOLcats meme, it’s a clear grammatical mistake.
However, this is nothing new. I emailed months ago about this and of course, it was unanswered. I guess I should now forward that on to Mr. Arrington to let him know that the lack of spell checking and grammar checking is affecting the outward face of his sister site.