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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Black MagicI was at college back in the days of Windows 3.1 and our network had it installed on all the 386 and 486 machines. Basically, you couldn't change any of the settings in Control Panel - well yes you could, but you couldn't actually save them.
We worked out that if you left the dialog box open with the new settings then the next person to log in would get those setting on their machine.
Having changed all the colours to black so only the icons would show up (no text) and then switching off the monitor and attaching an "out of order" sign, we then stuck up a poster on the notice board warning of the "Black Magic" virus which was doing the rounds.
The network technicians eventually found out and put a message in the autoexec.bat telling users there was no such thing as a "Black Magic" virus. Pity they didn't make autoexec.bat a read-only file... :o)
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Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Tue 10 May 2005, 0:36,
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