Subj : Re: Beautiful hacks
To   : Phigan
From : Bob Worm
Date : Mon Oct 23 2023 12:37:44

  Re: Re: Beautiful hacks
  By: Phigan to esc on Sun Oct 22 2023 18:00:26

Hi, Phigan.

 > I decided to play a trick on him and rename Paint to Write and Write
 > to Calculator, things like that. He

Oh this reminds me of two similar japes...

1 - While my mother was working on her dissertation about international trade, I set Word to auto-correct "Europe" to "Eurovision Song Contest". The first few times it happened she genuinely thought she was just tired, but eventually called me over to show me this strange thing that the computer was doing every time she typed "Europe".

2 - As a special treat for the resident computer expert in our student accommodation, a housemate let me set up a trick with his computer. We took a screenshot of his Windows 98 desktop & task bar, set that as the wallpaper, moved all the icons off to the very edge of the screen, moved the task bar to the right so it covered the icons, set it to auto-hide and then adjusted the CRT so even the little slither couldn't be seen. Then the resident expert was called in to help figure out why none of the icons or the start button responded to being clicked...

I think he was about ready to format it when we let him in on the secret, but he took it quite well :)

BobW
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