<snip> > Anyone know of an older hack, just for the Guiness Book > of Records? > > TIME$ A$=TIME$
I once read that Ada Lovelace was fond of spilling a little cod-liver oil onto the bearings of one of the wheels in Babbage's engine. The mechanism would "slip" a little, from time-to-time, resulting in a VERY perplexed expression on the good Doctors' otherwise taciturn demeanor. This playful computing prank predates "rsh <hostname> 'xhost+ ; xroach'" by about 120 years. Dorothy Stein. /Ada: A Life and A Legacy./ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/images/cbdiff2.jpg _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
