Inspired by the latest MacAddict's April Fools' pranks, here are some very handy commands to remotely control a computer of which you are an administrator. These are most useful in a family environment where you own and administer the others' computers. They also work well over AirPort.

First, you need to ssh to the computer using your admin account. Then, you can type in any or all of the following commands.

[robg adds: Read the rest of the article for the pranks. Please note that some of these are quite nasty! Using your power as Admin to remotely reboot someone's machine, for example, is a simply horrendous thing to do. With that said, however, some of the following would be quite fun to do to someone with a good sense of humor...]

Note: Commands that are shown on two lines have the second line indented by two spaces. Enter the command on one line, removing all but one space between the end of the first displayed line and the start of the second...

Absolutely nasty:

sudo kill [program id learned from top] 

sudo halt

sudo reboot

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "[name of an open program]" to quit'

Note: using 'sudo open' over ssh does not give the user super-user privileges for the opened application.

Power:

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to shut down'

General:

sudo open /Applications/iChat.app

sudo osascript -e "set volume 0"

sudo osascript -e "beep"

sudo osascript -e 'display dialog "Did you know that you are annoying?" buttons "Yes" with icon note'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'

sudo open [path to an application]

Speech:

sudo osascript -e 'say "[whatever]" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo" using "Cellos"'

iTunes Control:

sudo open /Applications/iTunes.app; sudo osascript -e 'say "Play some music. Go on.  I dare you." using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to stop' -e 'say "Please stop playing your annoying music" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to next track' -e 'say "I did not like that song very much" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to fast forward' -e 'say "This song is boring" using "Zarvox"'

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "iTunes" to quit'

Have fun, but not too much fun!

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The past months we all worked hard to release the new Raven Times edition, today its finally the moment.

As usual it will be released in four different languages: English / Dutch / German / French.

Please visit the website of OMNIA to view it on the fanpages.
You can find their website here.

For all you guys and girls out there... Have fun reading...

Hope to see you soon on the Fairy Ball

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Editors: Femke, Steve Sic en Jenny
German translation: Bienchen (Maja)
French translation: Célie
Dutch translation: Femke
Lay-out en computer stuff: Marius von Witzenbürg (me )
Drawings: Miez, Steve Sic and Alan Lee
Photos: Marcel Bakker (plus many un named others)
All copyrights on artwork text and photos © 2010 OMNIA/PaganScum records

Nice, an engine made out of a coca cola can and parts of a real engine

If you look at the commercial the first things you notice:
- The text is read in front of the camera.
- The camera takes don't match.
- The girl sounds completely non-beleavable.

And now, you even have a website of this crazy hype.

Of course, Sensodyne is making great money out of us crazy people who just seem to fall for it every time.

Visit the Sensodyne crazyness here

2. You place the food on a grill or BBQ (our bbq turned into a grill uh something ). And wait...

3. After repeating step 2 a lot of times, your result might be the same as ours:

See the mp3 recordings below if you want to know how they sound

MP3 sounds:

• Smiley One
• Smiley Two
• Smiley Three
• Smiley Four

I hope you all will like the clip about this happening!

* update *
You can find the clip here:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFF7nteiyE