Didn't that one come along with a bunch of other such inits in a book
called "Stupid Mac Tricks"? I was system admin on a large Mac Plus
network and one person bought the book and installed the init that
disabled certain keys on the keyboard. She installed that on just about
every computer on the network. Drove me nuts until I figured it out and
we had 25 staring at their computers for a day and a half until I could
remove it all. She probably would have been fired, if she wasn't the
boss's daughter...
I think I heard this keyboard blocking init was later spread via a
virus. I never saw it.
Doc...
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control
mouse, started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow),
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was
deleting (complete with progress bar...)
Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person
who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and
a determined three year old.
I hate to ask what that one did ... but I'll ask anyway. *cringes*
Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can
and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.
Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!
It was by an Eric Shapiro, and was shown at MacHack '89 and may well
exist out on the net somewhere...He eventually wrote a standalone
version to protect people with preschoolers.
Here's a link to a copy I found: <http://asgard.actrix.co.nz/
macintosh/inits/>
It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.
--
Bruce Johnson
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