Around that time, maybe a little bit earlier, I was a Sun nerd surrounded by other Sun nerds, but this worked for Linux too: We'd FTP into each other's machines and upload things like .au files of lonely whale cries into /dev/audio for an endless supply of WTF Moments.
gruturo|1 year ago
Telnet (What? SSH in 1995-6? nah) to friend's workstation
DISPLAY=0:0; export DISPLAY
xwininfo -root -all
*find some candidate window or control*
xkill -id XXXXXX
(or just fire a perl oneliner to allocate the sum of memory and swap, and then repeatedly scan it in a random pattern. But that wasn't me).*
kevindamm|1 year ago