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Geeky Practical Jokes

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:14 pm
by Obadiah
this was brought on by a funny expericne i had with my girlfriend this morning....she was looking at a newsletter she had been looking for for hours and she asked me how to fix the font size on the web page...i told her to hit ALT+F4....and she did...lol...she got pretty peed over it though

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:18 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That's a great way to spend a night on the couch in my house.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:21 pm
by Benjamin
Blonds don't get mad they just start laughing... at least thats how it is here ;)

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:24 pm
by Luke
I used to work at a computer shop/cell phone sales/web design store... so one day I replaced the Cingular Point-of-sale icon on the desktop of my boss's computer with a link to a web page I created to look EXACTLY like the Point-of-sale page he normally goes to, except this one waited a couple seconds and then the window would shake (javascript) like crazy for about ten seconds and then about 35 alerts would pop up in a row saying "You broke Cingular's Point-of-sale web page! Please contact Cingular immediately!!" That funniest part... is that I forgot I did it, so he happend to use it on I a day I wasn't there... and he actually called Cingular.. hahahahaha idiot!! I hated that guy.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:26 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Key phrase...
The Ninja Space goat wrote:I used to work at...
Silly little Ninja...

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:36 pm
by Mordred
The best one I've heard is to make a folder on the desktop with a "nasty" and embarrassing name, I think the original example was "Horse Porn". Then you take a screenshot of the desktop, delete the folder and set the screenshot as a desktop background.

The guy did this at a party, and then watched the poor host trying to delete the folder for several hours ;)

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:39 pm
by Luke
:lol: I gotta try that one

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:41 pm
by MrPotatoes
oh man that is GOOD. i will definatly be doing something like that soon.

on someone that doesn't know about computers. omg

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:45 pm
by feyd
Lets see... we used to place certain files on the root and sum of the substructure of the Windows computers we had in a lab that told windows to disable networking so the machines wouldn't cause collisions so we could overtake the bandwidth for various things. (legal, mind you.)

And then there were the times I'd spend about 30 seconds exponentially concatenating a file to itself to eat up a friends harddrive (and hiding it very deep in the file tree.)

I've done the screen cap of a completely messed desktop.. I've thrown all the icons on the desktop way off screen, written programs that interface with any active window and move all the window handles in it around randomly. Hmm, what else....

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:51 pm
by Obadiah
Mordred wrote:The best one I've heard is to make a folder on the desktop with a "nasty" and embarrassing name, I think the original example was "Horse Porn". Then you take a screenshot of the desktop, delete the folder and set the screenshot as a desktop background.

The guy did this at a party, and then watched the poor host trying to delete the folder for several hours ;)
feyd wrote:And then there were the times I'd spend about 30 seconds exponentially concatenating a file to itself to eat up a friends harddrive (and hiding it very deep in the file tree.)

I've done the screen cap of a completely messed desktop.. I've thrown all the icons on the desktop way off screen, written programs that interface with any active window and move all the window handles in it around randomly. Hmm, what else....
lol thats some great stuff....i have a feeling im gonna be in the "dog house" for a long time now...lol

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:49 pm
by Jenk
Simple things like changing the desktop pic to something undesirable when colleague(s) leave desktop unlocked.

Screenshot of desktop, then rotate image 180 degress, then rotate desktop 180 degress, hide icons and hide taskbar. (result is desktop appears right way up but mouse is inverted and you can't click on anything)

Celotape over the ball/lense of the mouse - the number of people who don't check this but resort to just hitting the mouse on the desk is alarmingly high.

Others include double sided tape on ear piece of telephone, uncoupling the cable between handset and base of telephone ("Hello? Hello?! HELLO!?!?!")

And slightly more dangerous .. connecting a screw driver to a 12v (charged) capacitor - zap.

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:00 pm
by feyd
Jenk wrote:And slightly more dangerous .. connecting a screw driver to a 12v (charged) capacitor - zap.
When working on stereo systems, that's what I, as do many others, do to discharge the cap so it can be handled. I'm not interested in waiting for several hours in the hope that the charge dissipates. ;)

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:22 pm
by Jenk
Yeah, but on an unsuspecting colleague is also just so much more fun. Even an unused cap.. charged deliberately for the shock :lol:

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:36 pm
by Chris Corbyn
When I used to work at EDS we used to regularly get calls from staff at a certain large UK bank who said their password wasn't working. Colleagues thought it was amusing to pull the keys off the keyboards and swap them around. The poor staff didn't notice the keys were all in different places until had to ask them "Find the E key and tell me what's on the left of it" etc.

Cellotape on the mouse is a common one.

VNC'ing into another unsuspecting persons machine and mucking about is always amusing too.

We used to use these call centre call distribution units called Aspect. You can open two calls on two different lines and conference the two together as a group call. We used to call two taxi or pizza company's at the same time, conference them whilst they were ringing and then hit muet on our own units and listen in to our amusement. It usually goes along the lines of:
Person1: Good afternoon ABC taxis

Person2: Errmmm, hi this is Street's taxis, how can I help?

Person1: Excuse me? You just called me?!

Person2: Stop mucking about, you called me, I've just answered the phone!!

Person1: F*** off, I don't have time for these stupid pranks so stop mucking about

Person2: <agument continues>
Actually pretty childish now I think of it but it was funny at the time. It's always good fun to do it to two of your mates too.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:29 pm
by php3ch0
I like changing the default language of the keyboard.