Today in the High-Tech Center...

[kozak6]

Today, I sat down in the High-Tech center and did some research on Albert Camus's "The Plague" while The computer next to me was turned off as was the monitor.

A person came along, sat down, and jiggled the mouse in an attempt to jerk the computer out of sleep mode. Of course, nothing happened. He swore under his breath, jiggled the mouse a bit more, and moved on, completely ignorant of the power button.

A few minutes later, a second person came along, sat down, and did the same thing. He said, "WTF?", grumbled under his breath, and moved on.

A third person came along, and finally figured it out.

Amazing.

[Daedalus]

yes,people are amazing,sometimes....
"the plague" is amazing as well.camus's finest imho

[Chozabu]

heh
ahh, reminds me of practical jokes back at collage
i did a printscreen of the desktop (in windows), set it as the background, and removed all the icons and taskbar
a couple of my classmates, thought it was a great plan, but took it a step further - they found linux screenshots online and used them
our lecturer, when we said "help! our computers are frozen", very quickly realised what was up, said "hang on guys, dont do anything" and quickly called the IT department
one of them dropped round (we moved to different pcs beforehand) and after much headscraching trying to fix the problem(bhtw, these are windows only guys, though theyre forced to do a little novell stuff) called round another guy to help
who after a quite short time figured the prob with the "linux desktops", but somehow, didnt guess we had done the same thing with the windows desktop...

[tChr]

Reminds me of one of the many parties we had at my old office.. I was drunk as shit, and a couple of my friends adjusted the screen so that the edges was outside the frame, and then movede the WinNT log-in screen to where i could not see it. The screensaver kicked in, and i came back.. pressed ctrl, and the screen was all WinNTgreen. and i just coulnt find the crappy log-in dialog.. after sweating for some time, i had to reboot, I simply couldnt find it in my state, all the time while my friends were laugung their head off.

[C.Brutail]

The screenshot trick is sooo old, but still funny

Another good trick was a bug in win95, at grammar school the old p1s were using that shit. If you have a win95 machine somewhere, feel free to try this little trick:

Click on Strat button with right mouse button. The options come up:

Move
Close

If you ckick on move, you can move the start button with your arrow keys whereever you want, even off from the taskbar
The close option closes the strat button, and it disappeas from the taskbar No-more strat button, and tapping your windows key on the keyboard does nothing.
To re-get it, tap ctr-alt-del (the magic combination ) and choose explorer.exe to close explorer. when it says do you realy want to close it click NO. After 2-3 seconds windows says he cannot stop the aplication, it is crashed. Say ok, explorer restarts, start button reappears on taskbar too.
This little trick works only on win95 (aswell con/con )

[a thing]

Lawl, windows users.

[GreEn`mArine]

when I used to program a bit in Turbo Pascal (in grammar school) we sometimes cried: "teacher, please help us, all data is gone" .. but all we did was just do scroll down so much that our code we just typed in was not visible anymore .. then the teacher came to us and said: "well, bad luck, start again"

15 seconds later we called him again and told him we had "just" written 2 pages of code .. his face ... ooh lol his facial expression..lol

[morfar]

Another good trick was a bug in win95, at grammar school the old p1s were using that shit. If you have a win95 machine somewhere, feel free to try this little trick:

Click on Strat button with right mouse button. The options come up:

Move
Close

heh, I remember that. Me and my friends where closing all the starts buttons on the schools computers. Where where like 10-11 years old
Its a classic