[HN Gopher] Practical Jokes (2007)
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Practical Jokes (2007)
Author : __failbit
Score : 27 points
Date : 2024-10-23 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| TremendousJudge wrote:
| > Assuming you can get access to someone's workstation when
| they're not looking
|
| Man sometimes I really miss working in an office
| jonathanlydall wrote:
| The white on white trick, nasty.
|
| Reminds me of a story of a practical joke I heard from someone.
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| Someone in their office had a computer CRT screen which had
| separate cables for red, green and blue and they swapped these
| cables around.
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| But this was also back in the days of Windows 95 where pretty
| much all applications respected Windows' colour scheme. And they
| also changed all the colours so that all the UI element colours
| still appeared correct with the mixing of the monitor's input
| cables.
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| This had the effect that in applications only icons looked wrong,
| or pictures in their documents.
|
| Apparently took IT a little while to work out the issue.
| randombits0 wrote:
| This is evil. I love it.
|
| I once pranked my boss by renaming the internal DOS command
| "dir" to "duh" on his PC. I loved watching him type in "dir"
| and getting "Bad Command or Filename".
| UniverseHacker wrote:
| Also reminds me of the classic upside-down-ternet prank that
| leaves open a free public wifi that rotates all images. Likely
| no longer possible since widespread use of https.
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