[spogbiper]

many years ago I had a fortran class where our lab was a bunch of x-terminals connected to some old SunOS Sparc thing. all of the user sessions used ttys that for some reason were world writeable. anyone who has had the misfortune of writing fortran code will remember that its very column dependent. each line of code has to have certain elements lined up in the proper columns.

so, of course I wrote a little script that wrote a single space character to a random tty every so often. the character wouldn't be in the users source code but since it was shown on their terminal they would generally hit backspace to "fix" it which made the text on screen line up but misaligned the columns in their actual source file.

very few people got their assignments to compile

[mrlonglong]

I like this very much, it's suitably evil.