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The monitor didn't work but the problem was between the user's ears

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Re: Office nasty

Early Sun workstations had the audio device (connected to a loudspeaker) left 'world writable'. One of the developers had recently acquired a new system and was still learning her way around it, when a colleague on the floor above remotely copied an audio file to her audio output.

His timing was unwittingly perfect, she had just completed a successful demo to a visiting manager when her system burst into Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus". According to others in the office she looked stunned, spluttering "It's never done that before".

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