Heh, spent a few hours reading BOFHs last night. Funny stuff. I quite liked this technique of Simon's...
"Not to be outdone, I change his login directory to the null device, set his path to "." and redefine the command "news" to execute a script in his old login directory to send a nasty message to the equal opportunities officer, then delete itself."
way back in the late 80's (1980's, not 1880's : ) i administered a medium sized network that included about 30 apollo workstations running the aegis os. aegis had this awesome command called crp (creep), which was create remote process...which allowed you to run ANY process (gui, whatever) on another users machine if you had authority.
when a user got too uppity, i would use that one
among my favorites was to "melt" the screen. another was to launch the x-wing fighter game when they got up to go to the john
Heh.. back to 80s .. i'm having a pain in the apple trying to google the names and artists for a lot of music from the 80s that are like "track 8" as their name ...