The other nasty trick for Windows users is to install the screen saver from www.sysinternals.com that realistically simulates your system crashing and rebooting! I have seen users hit the reset button before they realised that simply pressing a key or moving the mouse would get rid of it.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:33 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) > > > Not bad Norman!! > > I still like the "piece of sellotape over the ball on the bottom of the > mouse" trick - for the non-technical (ie. most secretaries!) it keeps them > puzzled for ages wiggling their mice and nothing happens. > > The other one is prising off the keys from the keyboards and switching them > about, or spelling out rude word on the keyboard with them - this won't > bother the touch typists, but as for the rest of us..... > > Cheers, > > Darren Branagh, > Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business, > Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland. > Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813. > > > > Norman Dunbar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > fs.co.uk> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: cc: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or > g.uk GIF(slightly OT) > > > 21/07/2003 14:57 > Please respond > to ql-users > > > > > > > Tony wrote : > > >>.... It is mind boggling though when one gets an image of a > >> full screen in a non-windowed viewer. It is difficult working what are > >> 'real' items to click (8-)# > > It's also great fun to grab a screen on someone's PC and load it into Paint > (or similar) then go to full screen view mode, and watch what happens when > they come back from lunch/smoke break/toilet break and try to start work > again :o) > > Cheers, > Norman. > > ------------------------------------- > Norman Dunbar > Database/Unix administrator > Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 0113 289 6265 > Fax: 0113 289 3146 > URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com > ------------------------------------- > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy > it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the > addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email > and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx > Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please > notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail > from your system. Thank you. > It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or > accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the > communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept > any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise > through the use of this medium. > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept > for the presence of known computer viruses. > ******************************************************************** >
