Stupid PC Tricks Continued.....
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The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day). They had a screensaver that emulated the old NT Blue Screen of Death. Not very clever, but great fun.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day).
It's still here. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/BlueScreen.mspx[^]
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once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.
Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.
The stupidest PC trick I've ever done is to take one outside and plough into it with an axe. Then I dumped it into a bathtub full of sulfuric acid.
Sometimes the loser kids are the coolest to hang around with. But ONLY sometimes. *sigh* 'Unique' is just an original collection of unoriginal ideas. - R.H.J.
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The stupidest PC trick I've ever done is to take one outside and plough into it with an axe. Then I dumped it into a bathtub full of sulfuric acid.
Sometimes the loser kids are the coolest to hang around with. But ONLY sometimes. *sigh* 'Unique' is just an original collection of unoriginal ideas. - R.H.J.
Did it help? BDF
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Did it help? BDF
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We created a fake command prompt for the BBC micro, many years ago, that could survive all forms of soft reset and would respond to input with a randomly selected response like "Yawn, Not today please I'm tired." or "Are you sure you really want me to do that?". The sneaky part was that we used the *TV command do mess up the vertical hold on all the monitors and then fixed it by adjusting the hardware controls on the monitors themselves so when they finally figured it out and hard reset the machines the V-Sync would go beserk. Cruel but side splittingly funny at the time especially when the victims were a bunch of year 7 (first year of secondary school) getting one of their first computer lessons with a rather scatter brained teacher. To top it off when all hell broke loose she was completely at a loss and came to find us, trying not to die laughing in the next room, to ask for help. Which we gladly gave and took the credit for with almost straight faces.:laugh:
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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There's little doubt that the axe would have helped Windows. Probably never run better. I was curious if doing this PC trick helped Ravel. Did it make him feel better for having done it, that sort of thing. BDF
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There's little doubt that the axe would have helped Windows. Probably never run better. I was curious if doing this PC trick helped Ravel. Did it make him feel better for having done it, that sort of thing. BDF
Big Daddy Farang wrote:
the axe would have helped Windows
Yes, at least it wouldn't crash any more, give arcane error messages, offer to report problems to MS just to say there is no known fix, etc., etc. :)
Big Daddy Farang wrote:
if doing this PC trick helped
How could it not? We've probably all been there. At least he had the balls to do it! :laugh:
Gary
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once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.
Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.
In Seattle there was this internet cafe that used xwindows for browsing, but did not know how to setup the permissions. We had a lot of fun redirecting all sorts of "interesting" images we pulled off the newsgroups to other terminals. Great fun to watch the expressions.
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In Seattle there was this internet cafe that used xwindows for browsing, but did not know how to setup the permissions. We had a lot of fun redirecting all sorts of "interesting" images we pulled off the newsgroups to other terminals. Great fun to watch the expressions.
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There's little doubt that the axe would have helped Windows. Probably never run better. I was curious if doing this PC trick helped Ravel. Did it make him feel better for having done it, that sort of thing. BDF
I'm more worried about how someone can get their hands on a bathtub full of sulfuric acid Steve
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I'm more worried about how someone can get their hands on a bathtub full of sulfuric acid Steve
That's a good question, now that you bring it up. I guess I sort of figured that all teenagers in Australia had access to one. ;)