Office Pranks
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Do a PrtScn of the desktop and save this as the wallpaper. Move all the real icons into one folder and watch at they try to click.
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Ha! I just posted this 20 minutes ago on a different thread!
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If anyone is up for it, I could get one of their addresses, and a bunch of us could each mail him a potatoe.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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 -
I share an office with two other people. Lately, my co-workers and I have been playing pranks on each other. Monday: One of the guys swapped my wireless mouse with another workstation, so when I moved the mouse that was placed in front of my monitor, the cursor would not move. Tuesday: He tried it again (yes, the same prank - no imagination). Wednesday: I re-booted his machine, went into the BIOS, and disabled his SATA controller, making his machine think there was no boot disk in the box. Today: I came in to find a chair that was not mine, missing all but one of its castors, and with a sign on it that read "Reseverd For VB Programmer". They had also set the voice-assist stuff on so that it read everything on the screen out loud. Today: In retaliation, not knowing which of the guys did it, I moved all of the extra office chairs (almost a dozen) onto their side of the room and interlocked the legs, as well as a couple of old tires that were in one of the storage closets. Tomorrow: I have a plan. :) (we desperately need an evil-grin smiley)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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, 1997Replace their monitors with ones that only go up to 640x480 resolution. The trick would be to find ones that look like theirs.
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Whereas we did fun things like take CACs people leave in their readers and pop them into the microwave for a while. Your tax dollars at work. :laugh:
..and water fell from the sky like rain.
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Do a PrtScn of the desktop and save this as the wallpaper. Move all the real icons into one folder and watch at they try to click.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
Move all the real icons into one folder and watch at they try to click.
Much easier if you just hide them. That way you do not have to worry about restoring them to their proper location.
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I share an office with two other people. Lately, my co-workers and I have been playing pranks on each other. Monday: One of the guys swapped my wireless mouse with another workstation, so when I moved the mouse that was placed in front of my monitor, the cursor would not move. Tuesday: He tried it again (yes, the same prank - no imagination). Wednesday: I re-booted his machine, went into the BIOS, and disabled his SATA controller, making his machine think there was no boot disk in the box. Today: I came in to find a chair that was not mine, missing all but one of its castors, and with a sign on it that read "Reseverd For VB Programmer". They had also set the voice-assist stuff on so that it read everything on the screen out loud. Today: In retaliation, not knowing which of the guys did it, I moved all of the extra office chairs (almost a dozen) onto their side of the room and interlocked the legs, as well as a couple of old tires that were in one of the storage closets. Tomorrow: I have a plan. :) (we desperately need an evil-grin smiley)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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, 1997If either of their usernames contain the letter "S" or "s", then lock the computer and in the username box replace the s with a 5 :) When I have done it to people, it has sometimes taken then 10+ minutes to figure it out :)
See if you can crack this: b749f6c269a746243debc6488046e33f
(This one is much easier than the last one!)The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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You mean like attempting to log on three times with the wrong password?
..and water fell from the sky like rain.
GenJerDan wrote:
You mean like attempting to log on three times with the wrong password?
I like it. :laugh:
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Ah, you need one of these: Das Keyboard[^] I actually have one, but I don't use it so much. Like you, I can easily type without seeing the letters, but if you program, it's good to be able to see the special signs at least...
Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see...
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers, September 7, 1924modified on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:45 AM
Johnny J. wrote:
Das Keyboard
I just love it when I read specs like this: "Model S allows full n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter, and 6 keys with USB." I have absolutely no idea WTF that is talking about, and it makes no sense -- "n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter"? Is that Greek? And how can you "allow" "6 keys with USB"? What's a "key with USB", anyway? How can you hit it if there's a bleeding cable plugged into it? If they can't even provide readable overviews, I'd be sticking my neck on the block by buying it. So is it in my shopping cart? Yabetcha not. Would have been, though, because I like the idea, but I'll wait for one that's not so obviously targeted at a small niche market -- so they lost a sale by not correctly identifying their potential customers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Johnny J. wrote:
Das Keyboard
I just love it when I read specs like this: "Model S allows full n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter, and 6 keys with USB." I have absolutely no idea WTF that is talking about, and it makes no sense -- "n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter"? Is that Greek? And how can you "allow" "6 keys with USB"? What's a "key with USB", anyway? How can you hit it if there's a bleeding cable plugged into it? If they can't even provide readable overviews, I'd be sticking my neck on the block by buying it. So is it in my shopping cart? Yabetcha not. Would have been, though, because I like the idea, but I'll wait for one that's not so obviously targeted at a small niche market -- so they lost a sale by not correctly identifying their potential customers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
"Model S allows full n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter, and 6 keys with USB." I have absolutely no idea WTF that is talking about, and it makes no sense -- "n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter"? Is that Greek? And how can you "allow" "6 keys with USB"? What's a "key with USB", anyway? How can you hit it if there's a bleeding cable plugged into it?
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Mark Wallace wrote:
"Model S allows full n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter, and 6 keys with USB." I have absolutely no idea WTF that is talking about, and it makes no sense -- "n-key rollover with a PS2 adapter"? Is that Greek? And how can you "allow" "6 keys with USB"? What's a "key with USB", anyway? How can you hit it if there's a bleeding cable plugged into it?
Basically it means when using the PS2 adapter (Round connection) it does n-key rollover - It can register you pressing as many key as you like at the same time - Whilst when using a USB connection it can only process up to 6 keys being depressed at one time. Well that is how I understand that that means.
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Um. The French layout[^] is AZERTY... (The Croatian is basically QWERTY, but most of the programming specific characters are in different places :evil grin smiley:)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
Oh man, the French and their AZERTY... been living here over three years now but I'm still using my old (UK) keyboard on my (UK) machine and it's toujours a nightmare of swapped numbers and accents when I use the other (French) machine in my office or chez a client... Mind you, the shooting's a lot better here than in the UK :) even though they won't let us have full-auto... :sigh: Cheers, Wilber.
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Do a PrtScn of the desktop and save this as the wallpaper. Move all the real icons into one folder and watch at they try to click.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Just exchange the keyboard connection with the adjoining computer - this way you can get at two chaps at once! :laugh:
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It wouldn't affect me (or any experienced programmer I suspect) - I don't look at the keyboard, I look at the screen. :laugh: Now, if you go into windows settings and change keyboard language to French, or Croatian... :evil laugh smiley:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
OriginalGriff wrote:
Now, if you go into windows settings and change keyboard language to French, or Croatian... :evil laugh smiley:
That's not a prank; the fucking thing does it on its own :mad:. I do the UI's in our group. As a result, I've got several languages installed on my XP machine, along with corresponding keyboard layouts. The stupid thing shifts keyboard languages and turns the language bar back on, even after I disable it.
Software Zen:
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A potato in the exhaust pipe... that'll show 'em.
Mythbusters did this one a while back; it doesn't work.
Software Zen:
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Basically it means when using the PS2 adapter (Round connection) it does n-key rollover - It can register you pressing as many key as you like at the same time - Whilst when using a USB connection it can only process up to 6 keys being depressed at one time. Well that is how I understand that that means.
Thanks! So the only thing that doesn't make sense is the terminology, which doesn't in any way describe what it does, but is probably how the developer thought of it when he was building the various classes/whatever to make it work -- The focus, like, rolls over, y'know, so I called it RollOver. And if I want to play one of those ridiculous games that require the use of five fingers and both thumbs to aim a gun, and your nose to hit the fire button, I can do it with this keyboard (except through USB, of course -- then I'll have to use the mouse, too).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Can't do anything that would require a login - we're on a DoD network.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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, 1997Some idiot one-voter obviously doesn't like the DoD.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I share an office with two other people. Lately, my co-workers and I have been playing pranks on each other. Monday: One of the guys swapped my wireless mouse with another workstation, so when I moved the mouse that was placed in front of my monitor, the cursor would not move. Tuesday: He tried it again (yes, the same prank - no imagination). Wednesday: I re-booted his machine, went into the BIOS, and disabled his SATA controller, making his machine think there was no boot disk in the box. Today: I came in to find a chair that was not mine, missing all but one of its castors, and with a sign on it that read "Reseverd For VB Programmer". They had also set the voice-assist stuff on so that it read everything on the screen out loud. Today: In retaliation, not knowing which of the guys did it, I moved all of the extra office chairs (almost a dozen) onto their side of the room and interlocked the legs, as well as a couple of old tires that were in one of the storage closets. Tomorrow: I have a plan. :) (we desperately need an evil-grin smiley)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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, 1997Don't forget low-tech (no-tech?) oldies but goodies. A convincingly realistic rubber snake in a desk drawer can be a wonderful thing.
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Now, if you go into windows settings and change keyboard language to French, or Croatian... :evil laugh smiley:
That's not a prank; the fucking thing does it on its own :mad:. I do the UI's in our group. As a result, I've got several languages installed on my XP machine, along with corresponding keyboard layouts. The stupid thing shifts keyboard languages and turns the language bar back on, even after I disable it.
Software Zen:
delete this;I always thought that was just me: I ended up removing all the non-UK KB's and only add them back when I need them. Then I take the damn things out again. Drove me round the twist!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
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I share an office with two other people. Lately, my co-workers and I have been playing pranks on each other. Monday: One of the guys swapped my wireless mouse with another workstation, so when I moved the mouse that was placed in front of my monitor, the cursor would not move. Tuesday: He tried it again (yes, the same prank - no imagination). Wednesday: I re-booted his machine, went into the BIOS, and disabled his SATA controller, making his machine think there was no boot disk in the box. Today: I came in to find a chair that was not mine, missing all but one of its castors, and with a sign on it that read "Reseverd For VB Programmer". They had also set the voice-assist stuff on so that it read everything on the screen out loud. Today: In retaliation, not knowing which of the guys did it, I moved all of the extra office chairs (almost a dozen) onto their side of the room and interlocked the legs, as well as a couple of old tires that were in one of the storage closets. Tomorrow: I have a plan. :) (we desperately need an evil-grin smiley)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"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, 1997If you are using Windows, write a small program that uses Win32 hooks to capture a single key from the keyboard, and randomly keep it from being passed to other programs. A keyboard wedge. It works rather like a keylogger, but will not log anything and will simply drop that particular key into the bit bucket. Make sure it's just one key. Make sure the program runs at startup, or make it into a service. Sit back and let hilarity ensue. :->
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Thanks! So the only thing that doesn't make sense is the terminology, which doesn't in any way describe what it does, but is probably how the developer thought of it when he was building the various classes/whatever to make it work -- The focus, like, rolls over, y'know, so I called it RollOver. And if I want to play one of those ridiculous games that require the use of five fingers and both thumbs to aim a gun, and your nose to hit the fire button, I can do it with this keyboard (except through USB, of course -- then I'll have to use the mouse, too).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
And if I want to play one of those ridiculous games that require the use of five fingers and both thumbs to aim a gun, and your nose to hit the fire button, I can do it with this keyboard (except through USB, of course -- then I'll have to use the mouse, too).
You have a foot don't you? Actually you'd better have 2 feet so you can drive both mice at the same time. :laugh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
