Office Pranks
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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, 1997 -
OriginalGriff wrote:
I don't look at the keyboard, I look at the screen.
That is the point. This won't work if someone looks at the keyboard. Try it and you will see what I mean.
OriginalGriff wrote:
Now, if you go into windows settings and change keyboard language to French, or Croatian...
Hmmm....
Yusuf May I help you?
The first time I heard about the key switch was back in the good old DOS days. Apparently the prankster not only switched the key caps but also used some ANSI trickery to switch the character produced by the two keys. This was mostly upsetting to touch typists who saw the bad output but when then hit the key marked 'm' it actually produced 'm' onscreen.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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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, 1997Place a personals ad on Craigslist, with their picture, in the men seeking men section.
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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!
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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?
Great thanks. I learned something new. . .and the reason probably for what I see occasionally. When typing (it seems only in emails (Outlook), I swear I didn't type it but a character shows up (usually an M) and it always puzzled me. But in your link I saw the reason I believe: "However, if the user has two keys depressed and attempts to strike a third key, the third keypress may create a "phantom key" by shorting out the switch matrix."
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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 think I may know why. It confounded me for a while on a supported system until I figured it out: You may accidentally hit a preset combinations of keys that is a shortcut for making a language switch, during your routine work. Try this: Control panel, Regional and Language options, 'languages' tab, 'details' button, 'settings' tab, 'key settings' button. In the displayed window set to 'none' the key sequences for 'switching languages'.
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I think I may know why. It confounded me for a while on a supported system until I figured it out: You may accidentally hit a preset combinations of keys that is a shortcut for making a language switch, during your routine work. Try this: Control panel, Regional and Language options, 'languages' tab, 'details' button, 'settings' tab, 'key settings' button. In the displayed window set to 'none' the key sequences for 'switching languages'.
Yes, but - setting the key sequences for switching languages to 'None' is ineffective, because they get restored to their defaults whenever you switch languages.
Software Zen:
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Yes, but - setting the key sequences for switching languages to 'None' is ineffective, because they get restored to their defaults whenever you switch languages.
Software Zen:
delete this;Ahh, wow, crazy. Well, could you use the hotkey for setting the language to your preferred language then. . .like, you'd have to memorize it I guess which sucks if you only need it occasionally. How bout the registry? Anything there maybe on either preventing the auto defaulting back to having hotkeys or the values of the auto resurrected hotkeys?
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Long live Dvorak!
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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, 1997The company I work for has grown too big to be able to perform pranks, but ond old days there were quite a few good ones: - If the co-worker was sloppy enough to leave his PC unblocked and had auto sign-in enabled in his social networks, we'd add lots of "friends" and "communities" to his profile that were opposite of his sexual preferences. The feedback from the community was really funny. - Put really, really, really hot pepper sauce on the tip of his toothpaste, so when brushing the teeth, you know... - Remove only one of the chair's castors and leave no sign anything changed. - Switch the CPU (all apparently equal) with a clean one. - Switch the water cup with vodka (This requires care, do this only one subjects that will accept it) `:mad:´