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Fun with PC's...
Thorsman Started conversation Dec 12, 2002
Not exactly a game, but fun none the less.
Wait until your cow-orker has left their desk. Close all the windows and hit the "PrtSc" (Print Screen) button. This takes a snapshot of their desktop. Open "Paint", hit Ctrl-V or "Paste" from menu and save the resulting piccie as a bitmap (*.bmp). Close paint and set your newly created picture as the desktop wallpaper. Finally, hide all the icons under the taskbar. Sit back and watch the fun as they franticly click on the now non-functioning icons.
Last time I did this, it took the sys-admin 3 hours to twig what was wrong. And I learnt a whole bundle of new words, too.
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Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Dec 13, 2002
Oh...My...GOD!!! That is just what this electronically driven society needs to remember to make light of this fast-paced work-a-day world we're all caught up in.
B4iwetmybreetches
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Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") Posted Dec 13, 2002
I nominate cow-orker as the funniest typo of today....
Otto
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Bogie Posted Dec 13, 2002
Or how about (and this works really well in call-centers) finding two computers back to back, and swappiong their keyboard and mice cables over, so that computer 1's keyboard inputs text on computer 2 and vice versa.
B.
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Batty_ACE Posted Dec 13, 2002
This one only works if your office has a certain type of computer. Long ago when I was a travel agent we used computers that really only did reservations and such. Since I was the office sysadmin I had the nasty habit of changing people background and foreground colors so they matched (both black or something) or would alter their color scheme to something truly ugly.
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dasilva Posted Dec 13, 2002
And I thought this thread was going to be about playing "Carmageddon" over the network at lunchtimes
I'm impressed!
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Batty_ACE Posted Dec 13, 2002
I posted in another thread that net sends can be a whole lot of fun too... especially if the person doesn't know anything about computers. Do a net send with something along the lines of 'you have requested an illegal action. the police have been contacted.'
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Wampus Posted Dec 13, 2002
If the thread originator is a fan of Dilbert, the "cow-orker" is not a typo. Neither is "Induhvidual," although that term hasn't been used in this thread yet.
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Nitecruzr Posted Dec 14, 2002
A variant on this trick is to replace the normal wallpaper with a BlueScreenOfDeath image (most WinDoze users know BSOD well).
One of my coworkers actually used the BSOD wallpaper routinely on his workstation. NOBODY would borrow his workstation cause they'd always think it was down.
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Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Dec 14, 2002
One of my collegues once changed his C-drive to read-only and switched off the pc. Of course it would not start again, and he called the helpdesk.
In the end they gave him a new pc as they could not find the problem
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