About the worst I've ever done to someone is to set up a shortcut of a shutdown command, and put it in the startup folder.
larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Greenwood, Erin E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:28 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Interesting CF Website > > > My only good pranks were in our CLIP class. I edited one guys > browser page > so that instead of Yahoo! he got Yeehaw! (he was supposed to > go work in WV) > with lots of fake stuff on the page like Entertainment - > hunting, chawing, > drinking; Society & Culture - hunting, dating your relatives; > etc. It was > very amusing ... well, to me anyway. The other thing I did > was make a VB > overlay of his desktop so that if he tried to click on things > he got little > popup messages. That one drove him crazy. > > Oh, the good old days. > > e > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beth F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Interesting CF Website > > > My pranks are less internet geeky, but I once added my bosses > name to Word's > autocorrect function so that whenever he typed "Steve Wiener" > (his name) it > would automatically replace with "Overinflated Egotistical > Bastard with No > Conscience". > > the other good prank is to remotely change the messages on the network > printers. If you sit near them you can have conversations > with the printer > users who believe that the printer is talking back. > Generally they speak > aloud to the computer, I have no idea why. > > I killed a job and put "hey you are working me too hard" as > the printer > message. user comes up, looks for job and sees "hey you are > working me too > hard" as message. > > User: Who? Me? > Printer: Yes You. > User: Who is doing that? > Printer: Doing what? > User: I have a presentation due. > Printer: Well, I am tired. > User: Cmon! > Printer: ZZZZ > > It went downhill from there. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:52 AM > Subject: RE: Interesting CF Website > > > > A way I have fun... > > > > Whether it is at work or at a friends house, I open the > hosts file and > add > > entries to their favorite site that point to other sites. > > > > Always funny to see them type www.yahoo.com and a site pops > up that they > > were not expecting. > > > > Jacob > > > > At 10:43 AM 4/18/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >Try this - for every ad company you find, add their IP to > your hosts > > >file, like so: > > > > > >127.0.0.1 x10.com > > >127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com > > >127.0.0.1 www.x10.com > > >127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net > > >127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net > > >127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net > > > > > >Whenever an ad tries to load, you will get a broken image, which, 9 > > >times out of 10, is better than the ad. > > > > > > >============================================================= > ========== > > >Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for > Macromedia > > > > > >Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Yahoo IM : morpheus > > > > > >"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:35 AM > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > Subject: RE: Interesting CF Website > > > > > > > > > > > > Speaking of unwanted sounds, have you noticed the horrible > > > > trend in banner ads where they are starting to add audio/music? > > > > > > > > I often have Kazaa running in the background downloading, and > > > > lately it will suddenly BLAST out the speakers with some ad > > > > (like the driven sly stalone ad). > > > > > > > > Scares the heck out of me. > > > > > > > > Lately I've had to shut down Kazaa if I'm listening to music, > > > > or else the extremely loud ads will shake the walls. > > > > > > > > Probably the last nail in Kazaa's coffin in my book. (But its > > > > sooo useful!) > > > > > > > > Jerry Johnson > > > > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/02 05:40PM >>> > > > > Sites with sound that you can't turn off should be nuked. I > > > > HATE hearing > > > > music from a web site when I have MP3s playing. > > > > > > > > -rc > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:25 PM > > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > > Subject: Interesting CF Website > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
