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by thisisdallas 3813 days ago
When I was in high school, I realized I could use the dos net send command to send any computer a pop up message.

First message: "Initiating mandatory inappropriate content scan" Second message: "Inappropriate content found...adding to log." Third message: "More inappropriate content found...adding to log." Fifth message: "User ID and Name added to log. Transferring to central administration offices."

The look on some people's face was priceless haha.

Soon they got wise to my ways and the gig was up.

I then found some Novell app that was installed on every computer that allowed the exact same thing but made it even easier! I think there was a list of names that I could select and then send a message. That didn't last long though. It was soon too blocked.

Any teachers out there? Don't let your students get bored.

Edit: I also just remembered each student had a personal network drive that they could access on any computer. Each student got something like 250mb or something like that. When you logged in as normal, you could obviously only access your drive and no one else's drive. I can't remember how but I figured out how to access other people's drive. The great thing was, I had read/write access :/ I could put anything in anyone's shared drive.

Come to think about that...I was a turd in high school.

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In the old days, I thin NT 4, SQL 6.5, you could call out to the OS from SQL triggers. I created a SQL trigger on a test/database/test table that did netsend to a co-worker/friends machine with "You have performed an invalid command. Idiot!". That table got inserts about 1-3 per minute, but sometimes up to 10.