Practical Jokes (2007)

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The white on white trick, nasty.

Reminds me of a story of a practical joke I heard from someone.

Someone in their office had a computer CRT screen which had separate cables for red, green and blue and they swapped these cables around.

But this was also back in the days of Windows 95 where pretty much all applications respected Windows’ colour scheme. And they also changed all the colours so that all the UI element colours still appeared correct with the mixing of the monitor’s input cables.

This had the effect that in applications only icons looked wrong, or pictures in their documents.

Apparently took IT a little while to work out the issue.

This is evil. I love it.

I once pranked my boss by renaming the internal DOS command “dir” to “duh” on his PC. I loved watching him type in “dir” and getting “Bad Command or Filename”.

Also reminds me of the classic upside-down-ternet prank that leaves open a free public wifi that rotates all images. Likely no longer possible since widespread use of https.

Reminds me of the old days. When X11 was not correctly secured, i.e., most of the time, it was possible to remotely login to someone‘s system, take a screenshot of :0 and display it on :0. :0 is the local display, so the computer seemed to be frozen.

More funny when all were in the room. :-)

For a quick drive-by pranking, just hit crtl+windows+c. It enables grayscale mode in windows.

It's harmless & easy to fix, so a good office prank. A good revenge on the manager who puts salt in unattended coffee cups.

> Assuming you can get access to someone's workstation when they're not looking

Man sometimes I really miss working in an office

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