Inspired by Lees annoy-a-tron thread, what are your best gags? Mine are geek ones (of course).
Recently almost got a coworker to get his laptop reloaded. He is (well was ) in the habit of walking away and leaving it unlocked. So I went in and took a bitmap of his desktop, then set it as the background. Then I moved the real icons around and rinse/repeat until he had what appeared to be multiple copies of the icons and they were randomly functional. The next time he left I set it back to his real desktop. Then the next day rolled it back to his iconized one. After 3 or 4 days of me switching it out and him trying to fix it and finally deciding to reload it I 'fessed up.
My pride and joy is way back in the days of OS/2 it had a useful random function built in. I wrote a script that would sleep the comuter for a random # of seconds and stuck it in the startup on my dad's machine. Oh, did I also mention in the script I included that it should only execute every x times, x being random? And that I also told it to change where it got stuck in startup? And it would rename itself? The result was the macine would randomly pause during boot. My dad would start his machine not knowing if it would sleep or when during the boot. It took him 3 weeks to find it.
Recently almost got a coworker to get his laptop reloaded. He is (well was ) in the habit of walking away and leaving it unlocked. So I went in and took a bitmap of his desktop, then set it as the background. Then I moved the real icons around and rinse/repeat until he had what appeared to be multiple copies of the icons and they were randomly functional. The next time he left I set it back to his real desktop. Then the next day rolled it back to his iconized one. After 3 or 4 days of me switching it out and him trying to fix it and finally deciding to reload it I 'fessed up.
My pride and joy is way back in the days of OS/2 it had a useful random function built in. I wrote a script that would sleep the comuter for a random # of seconds and stuck it in the startup on my dad's machine. Oh, did I also mention in the script I included that it should only execute every x times, x being random? And that I also told it to change where it got stuck in startup? And it would rename itself? The result was the macine would randomly pause during boot. My dad would start his machine not knowing if it would sleep or when during the boot. It took him 3 weeks to find it.
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