Petty SabotageI once put magnets on my brothers collection of ZX81 cassettes, so when he attempted to play them, they were full of errors and yet apparently undamaged. Can you beat that? Tell us your tales of petty sabotage.
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chthonic, Wed 4 May 2005, 10:59)
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Here's one I did to someone who thought he was an expertThere's a setting on Windows where you can turn off items on the start menu, such as programs and shutdown. When activated, these items simply vanish from the start menu and can't be got back unless you know how.
So, this arrogant bastard was lording it over all of us in the department, saying how much he knew about computers and pissing off everyone else.
I turned off "programs", "log off" and "Shutdown" and then redirected all the shortcuts on his desktop to a simple dialogue box program which just displayed "You must reboot your computer to correct the error that has occurred." - needless to say, as the desktop was set up like that when he turned the power off and then rebooted, it came back in exactly the same state.
It took him nearly a whole day to ask for help, and nearly another whole day before any of us were free enough to help... revenge was sweet!
(, Fri 6 May 2005, 18:41, Reply)
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