adding slowness and obfuscation

[troy]

I don't think top alone is gonna get you much. The system will stay pretty
responsive unless it gets IO bound or is forced to switch modes frequently
(like the scsi emulation seems to do to my atapi cd-rom when ripping cd's). 
First, i was thinking a kernel module.  Linux Journal had an article awhile
back on loadable k. modules which provided a nice skeleton which could be
easily modified for your worthy task.  But i wouldn't want to f. with the
kernel just for a joke.  I did see this on freshmeat:
http://www.communityprojects.org/apps/sloth/

No experience with this whatsoever, but applying it to X might to the trick.
Let us know how it goes :)

-ta (misses having a roommate to mess with)


On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:55:32PM -0700, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> In their login script set top to run with zero delay between refreshes in
> the background. :)  That's one way.  Make sure it will die when they logout.
> Or have a script that runs in the background when they login that calls any
> program that eats cpu in the background, again make sure it'll die when they
> logout.
> 
> Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion, but that's my idea. :)
> 
> - Christopher Wagner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dolo724 at softhome.net [mailto:dolo724 at softhome.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:37 AM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: adding slowness and obfuscation
> 
> 
> One member of our household has a 1.8GHz RedHat 7.2 workstation, makes it
> easy to administer and solves many problems when I have to interrupt a small
> child who's playing a game.
> 
> We're also into pranks... and here's the question: I'd like to slow the
> machine down for only one user, say from 1.8 GHz to 180MHz or slower. Any
> Ideas?
> 
> Indeed, it's not really ethical, but a good prank well executed is its own
> reward.
> 
> Thanks
> Mike Rice