Prank Idea needed!
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My boss once created a scheduled task on my machine that would run every minute, but only when the system was idle. This task would simply play a wave file of someone belching. Freaked me out for about a week until I found it. Since then I've been more careful about locking my computer when leaving it.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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My boss once created a scheduled task on my machine that would run every minute, but only when the system was idle. This task would simply play a wave file of someone belching. Freaked me out for about a week until I found it. Since then I've been more careful about locking my computer when leaving it.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Whilst I agree with Pete's earlier message about pranks getting out of hand, I used to have fun with a colleague when he was annoying me by using psshutdown (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psshutdown.mspx[^]). It allows you to remotely shutdown a computer, either immediately, or with a n second delay. You can also cancel the shutdown remotely (but not locally). It's amusing watching them panic for 28 seconds of a 30 second delay and then you remotely cancel the shutdown. ChrisB
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
The old desktop wallpaper screenshot prank. Or reverse the mouse axes (a bitch to change back if he isn't good with the keyboard.) A scheduled task that resets an annoying setting. Install remote control software.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
There's an article here which has a program which messes up the screen randomly. Better explanation, it draws lines that look like a persons' monitor is failing onto the screen (but over windows so that you can continue to work). My suggestion is to rename the program as something like svchost.exe so that it looks unobtrusive, modify the code a bit to start automatically rather than on keypress and put an entry (either in registry or startup folder) to start automatically. It's random and annoying but not that obtrusive. Sorry I can't remember the name of the program but it's an article in C++ here. I'll let you know if I remember it. BTW, I agree with Pete too but this was soo much fun when I did it to a colleague.
Formula 1 - Short for "F1 Racing" - named after the standard "help" key in Windows, it's a sport where participants desperately search through software help files trying to find actual documentation. It's tedious and somewhat cruel, most matches ending in a draw as no participant is able to find anything helpful. - Shog9 Ed
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
I would stop messing around before you get into real trouble.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
About eight years ago we ran NetBus to jester our secretary. Opening/closing the CD slot, displaying message boxes with text similar to "The system has discovered an incompetent user and will be shut down" with only an OK-button. The most popular prank was playing sounds from WarCraft II, such as "Stop rocking the boat", "you're making me sea-sick" and end it with a loudly barf. Since our victim had quite large speakers attached, we could hear the sounds being played out. So much for that poker-face... :laugh: -- Roger
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Bradml wrote:
Any Ideas of what to do?
If you're working for a company where you can waste 32 hours of your team manager's time and call it a bit of fun then GET ANOTHER JOB! (and a life)
Phil
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Bradml wrote:
Any Ideas of what to do?
Putting some crumbles of Feta cheese in someone's desk drawer is a prank, screwing with their code isn't, especially when you let them waste a week tracking it down. I'd kick your ass for that.
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Bradml wrote:
Any Ideas of what to do?
Putting some crumbles of Feta cheese in someone's desk drawer is a prank, screwing with their code isn't, especially when you let them waste a week tracking it down. I'd kick your ass for that.
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright -
Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Tell him you can't take the level of unprofessionalism in the workplace, and hand in your resignation. (Though you probably shouldn't wait 32 hours before you tell him you've changed your mind)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Whilst I agree with Pete's earlier message about pranks getting out of hand, I used to have fun with a colleague when he was annoying me by using psshutdown (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psshutdown.mspx[^]). It allows you to remotely shutdown a computer, either immediately, or with a n second delay. You can also cancel the shutdown remotely (but not locally). It's amusing watching them panic for 28 seconds of a 30 second delay and then you remotely cancel the shutdown. ChrisB
WIN+R -> shutdown /a -> ENTER Easy. :)
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WIN+R -> shutdown /a -> ENTER Easy. :)
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nice.:) the guy whose computer I was shutting down obviously didn't know this!
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
Hope the big boss doesn't find out - you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
When I first came to work here, one of the engineers was a big prankster, he did a prank on all of the new employees, and many of the old ones, and no one had ever succeeded in getting him back. But we aren't talking code, or lost time, no more than discomfort and that only minor. He greased my phone and then called me as I walked in the door in a hurry so that I wouldn't have time to look at the phone.... My return prank was creative, a bit more lasting than grease, but no more dangerous. To affect the quality of work for the company as a whole, the pranks you are doing are on the boss, not each other. Days, weeks of work lost, and if it continues? months? years? when you add up all the time you waste pulling pranks on each other's code, the company could probably replace you both with one employee and get the same job done in the same time. Be careful they don't figure that out and do it! If it costs time, do NOT do the prank, period. Also, after my return prank, the boss asked us to stop so that it didn't escelate into something much more dangerous. I had done the impossible, and he still had the satisfaction that I was the only person ever to return a prank on him. That was enough. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hope the big boss doesn't find out - you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
Trollslayer wrote:
you two have cost the company how many days of lost work?
I don't think the company would mind as long as they can bill the client.
Regards, Nish
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Hey All, As the Subject suggests, I need a Prank Idea. One of the Team managers and me have been pulling pranks on each other over the past week. He started by turning the cache on for my testing server. I retaliated by Defining the "$this->" variable as "null" in a PHP document (that took him 32 straight hours to find). He then continued to move my project folder out of where it was supposed to be and replace it with a link to a back up file of that project. Now I need to get him back. I consulted my maintenance books and was able to obtain the Admin password to his laptop. Any Ideas of what to do?
Brad Australian By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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You could just do nothing, give your boss a big devious smile, as if you've done something, and let him try to find your "subtle" prank.
Tick-tock
Nicola M. wrote:
You could just do nothing, give your boss a big devious smile
or be direct.... do nothing, but act shocked and say, "Wow I am really surprised you hadn't said anything about my latest prank. You did notice it right?" and then he would probably save face by saying, "yeah, but it wasn't much of one, I hardly thought it worth mentioning...." and then he dives in trying to search for it.... however, that would still result in work time lost for the search....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)