[ale] OT: Deluxe office accommodations for the paranoid
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Jim Kinney
It's when you take the time to individually wrap each pen, pencil and key that you realize OCD has fully taken over your life!
sorry. CDO. It's like OCD but the letters are in the right order.
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Calvin Harrigan
> heh, heh. Those are fun to do :-)
>
> It's when you take the time to individually wrap each pen, pencil and
> key that you realize OCD has fully taken over your life!
>
> sorry. CDO. It's like OCD but the letters are in the right order.
>
LuLz at "CDO". Too funny. Glad I don't drink at my desk...
Lightner, Jeff
Filling someone's desk drawers with Styrofoam packing "peanuts" is fun. Most people pull their drawers out quickly when opening them and hilarity ensues.
I haven't seen it but I did hear about a time someone used clear packing tape to cover the entry to a cubicle then filled the entire cubicle with the "peanuts".
Personally I'm kinda glad that April Fools fell on a Sunday...
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There was a pic of a cube with door filled to the rim with peanuts. As these were 7' high cube walls, it was not visible without a chair to stand on. The prankster admitted to helping clean up after the door was opened and peanuts spilled for nearly 2 minutes.
I filled a friends car with balloons while he was out of town. $12 in balloons and 5-6 trips to refill my 6gal air tank. The tire store heard my prank and loaned me their air nozzle :-) . To make that one just a tad evil, one balloon over each seat was filled with water :D . As the friend was laughing while he popped the balloons, he slowed down once he saw the first water balloon pop on the passengers side. Then he noticed all the balloons were one color except the two water balloons. I'm not totally evil . usually.
Geoffrey Myers
> That prank would take more effort to setup than for the target to
> undo I think. Sometimes the simple things are the best:
>
> Filling someone's desk drawers with Styrofoam packing "peanuts" is
> fun. Most people pull their drawers out quickly when opening them
> and hilarity ensues.
>
> I haven't seen it but I did hear about a time someone used clear
> packing tape to cover the entry to a cubicle then filled the entire
> cubicle with the "peanuts".
>
> Personally I'm kinda glad that April Fools fell on a Sunday...
A very effective prank that is easy to setup is loading a closed
umbrella with 'stuff.' The two items I've used were the contents of a
large hole punch and styrofoam peanuts. The hole punch stuff worked
better as it is silent, small and if you have enough, looks like
freaking snow. The peanuts can make a noise and give up the prank
before initiation.
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Jim Kinney
place a piece of clear tape over the door lock and trim it to be invisible fit. watch while victim tries to insert key.
clear tape over the phone pick up switch (the part that lifts when you pick up the receiver) then call them. a lot. works well for the office.
If the victim uses a corded headset often at their desk, a paper clip can make it shorter that they are expecting.
skip all of the above and buy a case of these while they are still legal:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
Lightner, Jeff
I got one of those for Xmas. They are small enough that they will fit nicely just beneath the average metal bookshelf/cabinet at the top of cubicles which conveniently are metal so the magnet lets you put it almost anywhere. Such shelves often have a small lip so you can put it in a place that the vict…er…coworker won’t see it even if they lay their head on their desk and look up.
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To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Deluxe office accommodations for the paranoid
If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or wool (duh - same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss on a small handful of the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
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> If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or wool (duh
> - same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss on a small
> handful of the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
>
> place a piece of clear tape over the door lock and trim it to be
> invisible fit. watch while victim tries to insert key.
>
> clear tape over the phone pick up switch (the part that lifts when you
> pick up the receiver) then call them. a lot. works well for the office.
>
> If the victim uses a corded headset often at their desk, a paper clip
> can make it shorter that they are expecting.
>
> skip all of the above and buy a case of these while they are still legal:
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
I have two. They work great. Drove my daughter nuts.
Christopher Ness
> If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or wool (duh -
> same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss on a small handful of
> the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
>
Rearrange the keys on a keyboard to the order of those on a telephone.
Place a small piece of tape over the earpiece of an ordinary telephone
handset.
Always keep a large capacitor charged and sitting on your desk. People can't
resist picking it up.
My favorite though was at the request of my boss to be done to a cow orker who
spent too much time goofing off: I removed his soitare game and replaced it with
a link to his work program with the icon to Solitaire.
Lightner, Jeff
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On 04/02/2012 04:17 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 03:42 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or
>> wool (duh - same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss
>> on a small handful of the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
>>
>> place a piece of clear tape over the door lock and trim it to be
>> invisible fit. watch while victim tries to insert key.
>>
>> clear tape over the phone pick up switch (the part that lifts
>> when you pick up the receiver) then call them. a lot. works well
>> for the office.
>>
>> If the victim uses a corded headset often at their desk, a paper
>> clip can make it shorter that they are expecting.
>>
>> skip all of the above and buy a case of these while they are
>> still legal: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
>
> I have two. They work great. Drove my daughter nuts.
>
Bad father, evil father!:-) This site has given me some ideas to be
used on my grandkids!:-)
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Geoffrey Myers
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> On 04/02/2012 04:17 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> On 04/02/2012 03:42 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> If the desk chair is vinyl, rub it well with a piece of fur or
>>> wool (duh - same thing!) to build a nice static charge. Now toss
>>> on a small handful of the tiny foam bead from a beanbag chair.
>>>
>>> place a piece of clear tape over the door lock and trim it to be
>>> invisible fit. watch while victim tries to insert key.
>>>
>>> clear tape over the phone pick up switch (the part that lifts
>>> when you pick up the receiver) then call them. a lot. works well
>>> for the office.
>>>
>>> If the victim uses a corded headset often at their desk, a paper
>>> clip can make it shorter that they are expecting.
>>>
>>> skip all of the above and buy a case of these while they are
>>> still legal: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
>>
>> I have two. They work great. Drove my daughter nuts.
>>
> Bad father, evil father!:-) This site has given me some ideas to be
> used on my grandkids!:-)
Along the same lines of this device, I pulled a similar stunt using 'old
school' tech. In a math class in college, I set a wind up alarm clock
to go off mid way through the class. Stuck it in the garbage can and
threw some papers on top of it.
The best part was the side effect of the actual ticking sound. I didn't
count on it, but it was faint and no one could tell where it was coming
from. Even when the alarm went off, it took the professor a while to
locate it.
>
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Scott Castaline
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On 04/03/2012 11:02 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> That last reminds of the time years ago where I modified a guy's
> autoexec.bat to run c1s instead of cls. The latter is the old DOS
> clear screen and was typically in autoexec.bat as last command. The
> former made it run a file I'd created called c1s.bat which changed
> his prompt to "Barry can't find me". He had told me he was as
> good at computers as I was but he never figured out what was
> setting his prompt. I finally told him where it was when he was
> about to reload the OS to get rid of it. :-)
>
That reminds me of when I was working for Harris Computer Systems in
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. They used a terminal for the console (I think
Adtec(?)) that had several different colored lighted panels that
indicated terminal/system status. Also the systems they made had a
control panel with LEDs for all bits on the Data Bus (normal run mode)
along with several switches such as Halt, Master Clear & Reset. The
name of the OS was Vulcan and on a system shutdown the system would
display Vulcan Quiescent on the console terminal and the LEDs on the
control panel would be toggeling in a reptitive pattern on the lower
bits. This signified that it was safe to latch up Master Clear and
power off.
A couple of us had written a script that would cause the system to
display the Vulcan Quiescent message along with displaying the pattern
on the control panel mentioned earlier. When the tech that was
assigned to this particular test station system left for break, we ran
the script. When he returned he saw what appeared to be his system as
having shutdown, so he latched up Master Clear and powered off. The
system was actually running with lots of system files open and being
written too. Remember the days of Sysgen? About 4 hrs later he was
able to continue.
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Jim Kinney
Evil user would sniff clueless (l)user password (pre-ssh days) and then remotely launch xroach on the screen.
Part 2: Hacked head professors email client to have the email filtered through the gnu talk filters set to 'jive'. Prof popped a gasket thinking the GRANT PROPOSAL he just emailed had been converted as well.
Geoffrey Myers
> fav computer prank involved a pile of Linux machines in a pretty open
> environment.
>
> Evil user would sniff clueless (l)user password (pre-ssh days) and then
> remotely launch xroach on the screen.
>
> Part 2: Hacked head professors email client to have the email filtered
> through the gnu talk filters set to 'jive'. Prof popped a gasket
> thinking the GRANT PROPOSAL he just emailed had been converted as well.
Set users PS1 to execute 'banner help' in there .profile
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Lightner, Jeff
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:58 PM
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Geoffrey Myers
> Better yet set it to "login:"
I actually wrote a short script that I'd drop in peoples' .profile when
ever they left it improperly protected as follows:
while :; do
echo -n "login: "
read foo
echo -n "password: "
stty -echo
read foo
stty echo
echo
sleep 1
done
It would also trap the appropriate control key sequences.