Stupid PC tricks
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Years ago I was working onsite with a client who had a very strict PC security policy - basically anytime you were not at your computer, you had to have it locked... There was a new help desk fella there who got up and wandered away from his desk, so I used his open email to tender his resignation for him... muhahahahahaha!!! Luckily the boss was a friend of mine (who I had told about the "resignation" stunt shortly after I clicked send) so he played along, and the desky didn't really lose his job - but he did learn to lock his PC when he wasn't sitting at it!!
------------------------------------------- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Just bugger off and leave me alone!!
Where I work right now, they have a similar policy. The day it went into effect and since I sit right next to the IT Admin, the moment I got up to drink some water (the cooler is about 2 meters behind us) he sent an email from my account to myself and a few other people. Figuring that he gave me a lesson, he cooled down. Two days later, I walked into the CEO's office to have a meeting (yes we can have meetings ANYWHERE in the company if a room is not in use) and God above, his laptop wasn't locked, so I sent him an email from his account. Three days after that, I sat down at my desk, peeked to the left and realized that my friend the IT Admin's computer wasn't locked. :cool: I sent an email out from his account to everyone in the company. :-D evil, and I love it :laugh:
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Where I work right now, they have a similar policy. The day it went into effect and since I sit right next to the IT Admin, the moment I got up to drink some water (the cooler is about 2 meters behind us) he sent an email from my account to myself and a few other people. Figuring that he gave me a lesson, he cooled down. Two days later, I walked into the CEO's office to have a meeting (yes we can have meetings ANYWHERE in the company if a room is not in use) and God above, his laptop wasn't locked, so I sent him an email from his account. Three days after that, I sat down at my desk, peeked to the left and realized that my friend the IT Admin's computer wasn't locked. :cool: I sent an email out from his account to everyone in the company. :-D evil, and I love it :laugh:
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
Yep, you know what they say... what goes around, comes around, and usually wants to stay for dinner!!
------------------------------------------- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Just bugger off and leave me alone!!
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
I guess I was a little, um, naughty. On a Unix course at Cambridge Uni in UK (military tend to send us there for some reason). Lecturer says "Don't worry you can't break anything here, feel free to play". Soooooo, (Evil Laugh goes off in head), I wote a quick program called Rabbit that create a 1k file of crap, spawned another process which did the same thing, each process creating a new spawned process. So in a matter of minutes disc had filled up and crashed the server!!!! Quickly deleted all the file (rm -r *) and all was ok again. Not related to PC but I was always up to tricks. Filled my Sergeants locker with "Flo-Pack" (small polystyrene balls) whilst it waas on its back on the floor, stood it back up full the brim. 10 mins later he went to it, opened up and, whooooosh, 2 feet of "Flo-Pack" around his ankles. :-D
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hehe... that's a good one... but it is video card dependant...
------------------------------------------- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Just bugger off and leave me alone!!
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OK.... did not see anything at all on my laptop. What should happen??? Extremely curious! :) Carl
Strange, it works on most systems. Ctrl+Alt+Arrow change the orientation of the screen. A reboot will not help you go back to normal. The only way to do it, is to press the proper key sequence.
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
Some windows 95 pranks I remember, renaming the windows directory to winders. Editing the win.ini to set the shell to clock.exe.
This blanket smells like ham
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
About 10 years ago a college of mine crafted a keyboard driver that ignored 1 out of 10 (or so) keystrokes, processing the rest as usual. He installed it at the PC of our CTO, who nearly smashed his keyboard in agony :)
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At university we had a lab full of Unix machines running X-Windows. So, when another student walked away from his desk, a friend of mine changed the mouse sensitivity in his logon script. (Something in .profile? Too long ago to remember) In fact, he changed it so that the values were negative, meaning that his mouse was totally inverted. I think this poor guy had logged in on pretty much every machine in the lab before he figured it out! There's also a BSOD screensaver[^] from SysInternals that's always amusing... ;)
Sunrise Wallpaper Project | The StartPage Randomizer | The Windows Cheerleader
muhahahah ... I know a colleague who's going to get this installed :)
'Howard
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
I've used to swap mice of two adjacent workstations when I was at university.
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
Haven't had time to read all the other posts (at work) so sorry if this has been covered already. I once had one of these free coke can holder joke programs that open up your CD drive. However, rather than just give it to my friend, I went on his computer and placed a shortcut to the program in his 'Startup' folder, and renamed the shortcut to something like 'Epson Print Manager' or something like that (also changed the icon). The result being that his cd drive would open everytime he switched on his PC, and it took him ages to find the cause ;P
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
We changed position of keys on the keyboard of a collegue of ours who was unable to type without looking at the keyboard. It was funny to look at him typing. :-D
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I sat next to a guy once who would play music all day much to the protest of the rest of our office. I knocked up a service we installed on his machine that would let us telnet to his machine and adjust the volume by typing a number between 1 and 10. Much hilarity resulted for a day or so as he was convinced that selecting text in Word was causing his volme to change randomly
Oh, I had to design a special trojan for my wife's sister and get her plant it in her laptop so I can force her to listen to music I like remotely using wireless;P I guess that was the meanest:laugh: ps. You can tell a loooooooooot from my signature:->
**Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.C:\Documents and Settings\Muammar>format /autotest c:_**
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
I did a similar thing to a member of my family. Before taking the screenshot however, I added several incriminating folders to the desktop, such as a 'porn' folder. After setting the desktop background, I removed the actual icons, so the folders were left apparently unselectable and hence undeletable! He saw the funny sie of it thankfully :)
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Strange, it works on most systems. Ctrl+Alt+Arrow change the orientation of the screen. A reboot will not help you go back to normal. The only way to do it, is to press the proper key sequence.
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
One of my fellow student kept playing Spider solitair in class. And this distracted me and the other students. So I changed the Solitaire links in his pc to run the shutdown command. He soon stopped playing solitair in class. Maybe if he was paying attention he could figure out what was happening :laugh:
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Strange, it works on most systems. Ctrl+Alt+Arrow change the orientation of the screen. A reboot will not help you go back to normal. The only way to do it, is to press the proper key sequence.
Giannakakis Kostas wrote:
Strange, it works on most systems. Ctrl+Alt+Arrow change the orientation of the screen. A reboot will not help you go back to normal. The only way to do it, is to press the proper key sequence.
The only way to do it is to turn your monitor upside-down and google for the answer. :-D
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
I once found a description and an example for how to change HP laser printer's status text over the network. It uses some proprietary set of special commands which let you interact with the printer if you send them over the network. There was a C# example, so I edited it and compiled a small console application which could send random status messages (from an array, I think) or accept a message as a program argument and send it over to our team's laser printer - we had a HP LaserJet, don't remember which model exactly, they have a LED screen. Imagine how confused people were when they saw the printer complaining about "RADIATION LEAK" or "WATER IN FEEDER". :laugh: Radiation leak is my personal favorite. My manager even called a few fellow programmers to take a look at it - I was one of them. Of course I played dumb and was as much confused as the rest of my team.
Kind regards, Pawel Krakowiak
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Have you ever pulled any fun pranks involving someone elses computer? I have. Once I took a screenshot of my friend's desktop. Then I made that picture his desktop background. About a week later he called me up in a panic and said, "Josh, my computer has a virus! When I move an icon it moves, but a copy stays where it was! But if I click on the copy, it doesn't do anything! What should I do?" :laugh: I wanted to say "reformat the machine", but the little angel on my shoulder gave me a firm nudge and I confessed... :doh:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.