it used to be that, if you saved a file as ".sony" on a mac,

[happiness and harmony]

you would kill your computer

this had something to do with the way macs access drivers instead of files, and all drivers begin with a period, and ".sony" was the name of the driver that controlled your hard drive or disc drive or something

so if you gave a file that name, the computer would think the file was actually in charge of some piece of hardware, fail upon startup, and never start up properly again

i never tried this, though i wanted to

and, though i doubt that it is, i have no idea if it's true anymore

[jawn galliano]

how long ago did this used to work

i used to cause havoc on the mac network in high school but i never knew that trick

read/write access to every computer in the district was fun though the admin never figured it out until i disclosed it before graduation

[Verbal]

isnt that a felony

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Only for felons

[Verbal]

i guess that makes sense

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

[happiness and harmony]

how long ago did this used to work

i used to cause havoc on the mac network in high school but i never knew that trick

read/write access to every computer in the district was fun though the admin never figured it out until i disclosed it before graduation

i read about it in one of the gigantic mac troubleshooting books we had when i was a young person

i remember reading it in the computer room in illinois, so it was definitely true around 1996

however, as i mentioned above, i have no idea when this stopped being true, or whether it is still true today

read the thread STORMY. your formulas socks grant you nothing

[jawn galliano]

isnt that a felony

it wasn't back in those days