Computer sabotage by accident...
Back in '93 in my last year of college I was in the computer lab a week before midyear exams, at the time we had a mixture of Archemedes and BBC Model B Micros which were both connected via the same network (Econet for those that remember) I managed to break out of the login/network boot process and due to a bug on the Archimedes RISCOS Operating System I mistakenly reset the public user accounts password(one thats used for booting the machines) - Well to be exact, I gave it a password - its usually passwordless. This shouldnt be allowed to happen. I wasnt actually trying to do this I jus tthought it'd be a laugh if it actually worked - and it did..

Consiquently I set it to something I didnt know cause I figured it wouldnt take. the password was longer on the Archs than the BBC B's could handle so no BBC B users could login anymore and the arcs would ask for a password at boot.

Imagine the chaos of students who werent able to login to do their revision, and due to somebody seeing me messing around they soon tracked it down to me - only time a teacher has threatened to punch me!

I managed to get away with no reprimand on my school record and I heard it took them 8 hours restoring from floppies to remove the password from the boot drive..

OOPS..

Still I look back and laugh..

Oh well :)
( Jimmer still not dead at, Fri 6 May 2005, 18:14, Reply)