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Around that time, maybe a little bit earlier, I was a Sun nerd surrounded by other Sun nerds, but this worked for Linux too: We'd FTP into each other's machines and upload things like .au files of lonely whale cries into /dev/audio for an endless supply of WTF Moments.

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Oh the good times in the Un*x lab (Mostly AIX, sigh) in my first year of Uni.

Telnet (What? SSH in 1995-6? nah) to friend's workstation

DISPLAY=0:0; export DISPLAY

xwininfo -root -all

*find some candidate window or control*

xkill -id XXXXXX

(or just fire a perl oneliner to allocate the sum of memory and swap, and then repeatedly scan it in a random pattern. But that wasn't me).*

And `talk`, the best chat client created ever.

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