Computer pranks...
I was on fark.com and they had a thread going on related to computer pranks...and man, were they funny (and dangerous)...
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...?IDLink=864926
Noticebly, the most easiest platform to do these pranks is Windows. Some I am definately going to pull on some Windows user-friends of mine...maybe then they'll switch...
There was one Mac prank on the thread:
"We have a mac and a couple of PCs. Sometimes my fiancee is on the Mac in the bedroom and I'm on the PC out in the office. One time I SSHd into the Mac and started running AppleScript commands via the BSD shell. I would randomly start and stop iTunes, turn the volume up and down.
Then I made it "speak" to her using apple's text to speech system. Scared the crap out of her. She still loves me thought ;-)"
What about some more Mac pranks...harmless Mac pranks, of course...
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...?IDLink=864926
Noticebly, the most easiest platform to do these pranks is Windows. Some I am definately going to pull on some Windows user-friends of mine...maybe then they'll switch...
There was one Mac prank on the thread:
"We have a mac and a couple of PCs. Sometimes my fiancee is on the Mac in the bedroom and I'm on the PC out in the office. One time I SSHd into the Mac and started running AppleScript commands via the BSD shell. I would randomly start and stop iTunes, turn the volume up and down.
Then I made it "speak" to her using apple's text to speech system. Scared the crap out of her. She still loves me thought ;-)"
What about some more Mac pranks...harmless Mac pranks, of course...
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open the screenshot as a fullscreen picture or set as screensaver
they'll be madly clicking the HD icon and wondering why it's busted, or why apps won't focus
an oldie but a simple prank
Also, I used the screenshot-as-a-desktop thing only I flipped it 180 degrees.
This year, I will use the comand-option-control-8 on my brother's G5.
(Any way to make that a applescript that I can add to the startup items?)
Has to be great for people touching their first Mac and nothing moves. Brilliant people there. \
I don't see how it would work as a screensaver...
Then he revokes my admin access.
Then I kick his ass
Normally, he would make this script and add it to to his task bar for shutdown (so as not to need going to to Start > Shutdown > confirm, etc).
Well.. you can guess what we would do: put the shutdown link into the startup folder.
Obviously, renaming it sometjing critical like "Win32 Core" or something like that.
Fun... and evil as hell
1. Download PhotoStickies
2. Take a full screencapture of whatever is on screen, saving to a file.
3. Open that file in PhotoStickies
4. Make the image full size and center it. Ideally drag it below the menu so you can access the menu later!
5. Make the opacity something less than 100%, like 20% or so.
Make sure it is less than 50% or else it's very hard to set it up and undo it
6. Turn off allow clicks and drags
7. Set as overlay/top level (I forget the exact name)
8. Switch to another app via command-tab.
You'll now have an overlay of the screen on top of the screen. The machine will be usable (depending on the transparency you chose!) but it while have a ghost image over everything. The offset is really annoying
You can also use Cronnix to schedule the startup/shutdown of PhotoStickies and it should show the previous screenshot (if you set it to
Enjoy responsibly.
Add aliases to the prankee's .profile.
As an example:
alias "rm -r"="ls"
Barto
Connect remotely and let there be a "ghost" in their machine.
In Windows 2000 I believe you can use the command "shutdown -i" to remotely shutdown your mates on a Windows network.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
Changing the autofix preferences on some ones computer in word. Have fun with it, and just randomly put in porn words or profanity. Or be more subtle and replace 'put' with 'but'
Oooh, I like. I can just see the law firm that gets its tushie handed to it on a plate in court because 'and not' was replaced with 'and'.