Stupid PC tricks
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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 i did was a simple batch program with a timed shutdown with the logoff switch. put it in startup with a 5second timer.. perhaps a msg saying something like "you just arnt good enough to use this PC" or similar... watch ppl pull out hair wondering why the computer would log them out just after login simple but efective :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 guess we've all had that annoying co-worker or that really naive one. I've had the pleasure of working with both types. The naive co-worker called me one day just scared to death! Every time she would save a document change her computer would say in a darth vader sound clip "I will destroy you". I fixed it for her...while our annoying co-worker laughed at her. The annoying worker got his come-uppance, yet another co-worker took a snapshot of his desk top and made it background and then hid all of his icons under an icon he never used. He never figured out what happened to them, he "had" to use the windows menu from that point on. Next the other co-worker made a window service that would randomly cause annoying co-worker's machine to make belching or other gastronomical sounds and eject the cd-tray at the same time. Annoying co-worker would format his machine only to find it back to it antics the next morning, he finally gave up and used the machine as was. :cool:Two years later it was still like that when he was let go. - *sigh* memories.:cool:
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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.
Hahahaha I did something well funny once - while some one was away from their computer I turned it off - ahahahaha how cool and original is that - what do you mean not very?!?! Dan
At university studying Software Engineering - if i say this line to girls i find they won't talk to me Dan
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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.
ah during the summer i was working nights for a company in Dublin, one night i wrote a little C code just displaying a message saying windows suffered an error please press any key... when the user pressed a key a new message popped up requesting to reformat the machine y/n, no matter what you pressed a "reformat" started ran it on all the computers in my office alt+entered it to full screen and went home at 7am came back in at 7pm, the place was going nuts they all thought the pc's were screwed, lesson: dont hire dub ppl just because they'll work Saturdays, another favorite is to disconnect the network cable just enough to stop it working but leave it sitting in the port causes much frustration to dumb ppl! mikie
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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.
Twenty years ago, I worked at a small investment firm that was all-Mac. This was back when the Mac had the only GUI out there, and few people realized that voice and music could be digitized and played over the Mac's speaker. I happened to be the first guy on my block to get a mictophone that could record voice on the Mac. The CEO of the firm was very fond of saying to the marketing VP, "Peter, you're not listening to the market!" I put a recording of myself (with heavy reverb and my best Halloween voice) saying the same thing, and loaded it onto the VP's computer after he left one evening. I made it his default beep sound. A group of us gathered outside the closed door of his office the next morning and waited for results. It took about five minutes, but we heard him nearly come out of his chair the first time the voice came out of his computer. Then we could hear him tentatively click again, and nearly come out of his chair again. He stormed the door of his office so fast that we barely had time to get out of the way. The CEO laughed harder than any of us, and said he might just leave the computer as it was. Of course, I fixed it later that day.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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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.
swap the ps2 mouse and keyboard cables at the back of the PC. Neither will work in the wrong plug. :) Another one I had to clean up after was someone locked all the 386s in my HS lab so they wouldn't boot. Old machines had a physical lock switch in the bootup that was basically useless since every machine used an identical key and came with 2 of them. Never quite figured out why someone thought that was a good idea.
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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.
When I was in High School I had acquired a computer case, which we filled with non-functional parts and broken monitor almost exactly like the ones used in the labs. We snuck into the lab and hid one of the brand new computers, and layed out our "sacrifice" on a table. We then waited for the ever cool and collected lab manager to round the corner to the lab. On our lookouts signal we started beating on the computer with hammers, and cutting wires at randome. The lab manager immediatly though we had destroyed a perfectly good computer and started screaming "What are you doing?!?!". The designated camera guy took a Polaroid picture, handed it to her and we all left. Last I heard the picture still hangs in her office.
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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 used to work for Compaq tech support. In training one day, we were instructed to mess up the machine somehow, then move to another machine and try to find and fix what somebody else did. Me and the guy on the opposite side of the table swapped monitor cables. It was hilarious because the two people working on those machines were basically trying the same things, so it took them forever to figure it out. They were so confused. I've dumped shortcuts to every file in the Windows directory in startup... I've set a screen shot of the desktop as a wallpaper and then removed all icons but My Computer... I've changed all the major file associations to other apps... I've move peoples email storage directories... I've changed the DOS prompt to strange messages... I've changed the 95/98 syslogo to things like a blue screen screen shots... I've edited wallpapers to have a wierd error message box... I've done lots of mean stuff. The computer is a great way to mess with people. But never anything that couldn't be un-done, that's just evil.
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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.
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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 once had a really uptight prudish manager. We all worked in a big one room open office. So we decided it would be neat to pepper her sound theme with fart WAVs. That was a fun day. :laugh: Not too long ago, there was a blonde that worked in accounting that would come up to visit on occation. She was trying to quit smoking. So I wrote a little dummy app that would show progress and then display some chemical stats, and we rigged up a breathalizer looking thing to one of our machines and told her that it could detect cigarette breath so she couldn't lie to us about smoking. To this day she still thinks it was real, I think she actually quit smoking too.
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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.
Back in the 80's we got a couple of cards that generated a rather robotic sounding voice from text input. I installed one in a coworker's computer and had it say something like "Help me, I'm stuck in here" when he booted. Of course no one else was ever around when it happened and he couldn't make it happen again. Just like a sitcom.
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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 wrote a program that hook the keyboard input and would play a specific sound whenever a certain key or key combinations were entered. That has served me more than once...
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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.
At one of my previous jobs one of my co-workers brought in his spiffy Apple Laptop. Coincidentally, we had just received wireless mice with the tiny usb transmitters. The rear of his machine was facing me and easily accessible, so when we was away from his machine for a moment I plugged it into one of his USB ports. When he returned he was none the wiser. Then when he got back to work I inconspicuously would hang out behind is his chair and randomly whenever he moved his cursor over a button, I would swipe the wireless mouse I was holding a little causing his cursor to drift a bit just off of the button causing him to click in a blank space. This had him going for several minutes since I didn't do it every time. It was a great hoot when he finally got wise that something was up and turned around to see me grinning widely. :D
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Once, back in the MS-DOS days (I am dating myself now), I changed a co-workers command prompt using the Prompt command. Basically, I made it so that his command prompt was: General Failure reading drive C: (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nore I forget the exact text now, but I made it look exactly like the old error message. I even put in the $N character combination where the drive letter went, so that no matter what drive he switched to, it would look like it had an error reading it. What was funny was when he typed, R, and it came back with: "Bad command or filename" and he still did not catch on.:laugh: Eventually he rebooted the machine (I was not cruel enough to actually change his Autoexec.bat file), and of course, it went back to normal.
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Awesome :cool:.
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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.
These were on X-windows terminals, but in the same spirit. Once you know the display ID they tend to be pretty open, so I got the ID for someone down the hall... 1) Turn screen black after 1 second of inactivity. 2) (later same day) Turn key-click volume from zero to full. As soon as I hit return the office was filled with CLACK CLACK CLACK (pause) CLACK CLACK (longer pause)... Although it's untraceable the victim immediately showed up at my door for some reason. :)
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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.
When I got caught doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing at work, (I was 17 and very stupid) I sabotaged the Wang VS100a generation (boot) file. I replaced the login procedure with a procedure that called up a screen with 'the finger' on it. When people went to turn on their termianls the next day? No login screens, just the finger. I heard it took three days to fix it and they lost $70,000 in income. I don't do that anymore. ____________________________________________________________________________ "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -- Douglas Adams --
Shohom67
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When I got caught doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing at work, (I was 17 and very stupid) I sabotaged the Wang VS100a generation (boot) file. I replaced the login procedure with a procedure that called up a screen with 'the finger' on it. When people went to turn on their termianls the next day? No login screens, just the finger. I heard it took three days to fix it and they lost $70,000 in income. I don't do that anymore. ____________________________________________________________________________ "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -- Douglas Adams --
Shohom67
You're really lucky they didn't sue you for $70k. Now days they probably would.
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You're really lucky they didn't sue you for $70k. Now days they probably would.
Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.