Hello Oliver Sturm,
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:46:42 +0100 GMT your local time,
which was Friday, December 24, 1999, 8:46:42 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Oliver Sturm wrote:
Oliver> Hi Roel,
Oliver> On Freitag, 24. Dezember 1999 at 2:08:18 you wrote:
R>>>> if you want to use windows-variables, you should use them like this:
R>>>> %windowsdir%
OS>>> Nice to know that works ;) Anyway, of course I didn't put
OS>>> "<windowsdir>" in there, but actually "d:\winnt". I just didn't want
OS>>> to confuse anybody ;)
R>> I've seen stranger things being typed before... if you would have actually
R>> typed '<windowsdir>' it wouldn't have surprised me... :-)
Oliver> That's alright ;) I've seen things like that, too, while working as a
Oliver> trainer for a consulting company. There's a funny story that's
Oliver> crossing my mind... maybe not everyone knows that trick:
Oliver> Someone complained to a coleague of mine he couldn't use any of the
Oliver> icons on his desktop. My coleague tried to figure it out (that was on
Oliver> a Windows NT course ;), but it wasn't possible to click on any icon.
Oliver> He rebooted, tried everything. Then he found it out: Some other guy
Oliver> had taken a screenshot of the empty desktop, switched to a higher
Oliver> resolution, moved all the icons away from the usual desktop space,
Oliver> reestablished the old resolution and put in the screenshot as the
Oliver> desktop bsckground picture. Good idea to frighten you younger sister
Oliver> ;)
I used a similar trick for many years even in the green tube displays
to
1. not being auto logged off from my mainframes/minis when visiting a
user,
and
2. to prevent them messing with my machine while I wasnt at it.
it was running and nobody could acess my system unless they knew how to
and the users in those days didnt have a clue.
Oliver> Thanks for your testing, also to Ali.
Oliver> Oliver Sturm
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