13 Sep
2012
13 Sep
'12
12:22 p.m.
On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
I used this (I remember it having various names: was
it originally Suntools but then later Sunview?) in 1988-89, and my wife will remember
earlier history than that (she ran the first Sun in Scotland).
My suntools story involves the screen lock. Essentially this was a program that placed
a large window over the entire screen to keep you from messing with the windows
underneath.
You could use a hot key to inconify it but you had a fraction of a second before it opened
up again. I was working in the Pentagon one day as a consultant (I was for a brief
period ron(a)HQ.AF.MIL) and came upon a locked console. I asked the guy I was working for
if he could unlock it or did he just want me to break the lock. He was interested in
seeing how.
Iconify, find a window, Iconify, type ps quickly, Iconify, find the process id of the
lock, Iconfiy K I L L Iconfiy pid Iconfigy enter ...poof.