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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 20:11 Post subject: Top 10 IT office pranks	Quick Quote Quote

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-wacky-it-office-pranks/2695?tag=nl.e101

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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 20:21 Post subject:

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Without a doubt, the greatest IT prank I have ever been witness to occurred shortly after Windows 95 was released. The guy who was in charge of IT operations was adamant that Windows 95 would never be used. He made it clear that we would continue using Windows 3.1 indefinitely.

A good friend of mine (who did not work in IT) made a screen capture of a Windows 95 desktop and then configured every PC in his department to use the screen capture as the Windows wallpaper. When the IT director walked through the department he saw what he thought were about 50 desktops running Windows 95. Rather than taking the time to check things out, he angrily stormed off to HR to try to get everyone in the department fired. Not surprisingly, he ended up looking really silly once it was revealed that he’d gotten all worked up over harmless wallpaper.

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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 20:34 Post subject:

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Although keyboards typically use the QWERTY layout, Microsoft provides alternate keyboard arrangements for those who have difficulties typing. One such layout, known as Dvorak, replaces QWERTY with some rather bizarre key arrangements.

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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 20:50 Post subject:

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umm... ok... are they serious?

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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 21:03 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2011 21:26 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2011 03:56 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Hmm I did some of those pranks. Replacing someone's background with a picture of an AutoCAD window that of course wouldn't close. The man restarted his PC a couple of times and then went home. One I duplicated but never used in the wild: Replacing some bytes in the command.com so if the accessed A: drive was empty, DOS would display: Your girlfriend is pregnant (A) Abort, (R) Retry, (I) ignore Back to Win95, besides the PowerToys there were also the KernelToys. One of those could change the keys on the keyboard. Like changing y to n. Are you sure you want to delete this folder? (y/n)...

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Posted: Thu, 1st Sep 2011 11:30 Post subject:

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Hurr durr, it is different, so it must be for disabled hurrrr.

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