3 Jan
2015
3 Jan
'15
6:56 p.m.
It was the old suntools lock program, which was nothing more than a full size window that
covered up the screen. You could use the hotkeys to iconify it but you had a fraction
of a second before it replaced itself. However, if you were fast you could as you kept
iconifying it find a terminal window, do a ps, and kill the screen saver. You’d get
like 2 characters typed on each iteration.
That was the time I scared all my old BRL buddies because the account they gave me was
ron(a)hq.af.mil <mailto:ron@hq.af.mil>. I don’t recall the root password that
time, but the password on the cisco routers we were working on was “DickCheney” (this was
back when he was secy of defense).