I loved this particular "command prompt puzzle" (if you could call it a puzzle) as it was pretty fun and it fit in so well.
I was kind of left wishing there was more of its kind in the mod because there were so many places in the game where it would have seemed appropriate. I certainly would have liked to have seen a more difficult version as a alternative to the "move the blocks" puzzles (like the one to download ShadowCode) that I thought were rather annoying.
I agree that it was real spiffy and a fresh alternative to fetch-questing...not that I've ever minded fetch quests...
What would've been sweet is another instance of such a type of PC carousing, only without a specific PM or goal alerting the player to it. Say a hidden-away character or crate contained a disk that would allow the player to run a few programs on a specific computer that might've been alluded to by the location or appearance of the disk. Successful completion of such a discreet side quest could've yielded bounties galore and an immensely overwhelming sense of "Yeah, I just *did* that!"
I'm pretty confident in everything from the neck up.
Definitely thirded - It was a surprise to 'break' with the usual hacking method, but very welcome. I really enjoyed it. Probably the standout moment in the mod for me, oddly.
I had to reload when I did that because I was playing with the commands and despite it SAYING that you didn't have the access to delete all the folders in there except Root>Sys, it really does let you wipe them all out. This left me rather confused. Once I reloaded and got it to work, though, it was pretty fun.
I never understood how to do the delthreads.exe puzzle. When ever I tried launching it, It said I had to be logged in as Admin, but I never knew how to change to the admin account, even Fargo's. I'm sure had I understood it it would have been cool.
Was this puzzle knowingly based on a real bug? (Note: reading this bug report will probably spoil the puzzle if you haven't done it already, as it's pretty obvious when you know what to look for)