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trumee
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: Freak uptime? |
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Is it possible to change uptime on the fly 
I was planning to show my windoz frnds some show!! |
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Lycander
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Sure! Create a new plain text file and call it "uptime" but put it somewhere that won't conflict with the real app.
Inside the text file write:
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echo "Uptime: 999 years"
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You can change the wording a little to look like the real thing. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory you saved the file in. Do:
chmod +x ./uptime
That'll make the text file executable. Now when you in a terminal and in that directory, ./uptime will make it print that text out and impress your friends.
If you want to get fancy, make a script or console app in C that'll get the actually uptime and add a few extra months/years to it
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