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- TylerDuhrdan, on 07/15/2009, -1/+247I swapped keys out, swapping the N and M, JKL, and TYU on a co workers computer. Took him 20 minutes and hearing my laugh to figure out I messed with his keyboard.
Next day when I came into work, I pulled my chair out and everything on my desk went flying backwards. Seems he tied fishing line to everything on my desk and had it fished down to my chair, so when I pulled it out, everything came off.
I put shrimp in the pole of his chair, took a few days but he had to get a new chair.
He rubbed AstroGlide on my phone.
This went on for months, we had so much fun working together. - Joshislong, on 07/15/2009, -2/+181They forgot the best part of the old screenshot-as-wallpaper gag: making an inappropriately named folder that is now stuck on their desktop.
- casspa, on 07/15/2009, -6/+174This is why you don't f*ck with a techie.
- forknife, on 07/15/2009, -15/+175My favorite windows prank is casually browsing the internet- you wouldn't believe the harm it does!
- scooterbaga, on 07/15/2009, -3/+123Kernel panic screensaver ftw.
- jocknerd, on 07/15/2009, -0/+105Lame. One time I ssh'd into my wife's iBook and ran the 'say' command with one of the weird voices and had it the iBook say that I was watching her. Freaked her out because I was in a different part of the house.
- seabass10, on 07/15/2009, -1/+104command-option-control-8
- RMoore08, on 07/15/2009, -0/+91Here's another good one. Either boot into single user mode (at start up chime hold Command + S) or open a terminal session and make it full screen. Then type in 'cat /dev/random' . It will generate random text and essentially flood and scroll the screen making the casual computer user freak. It does no harm to the computer....
But if you are looking for a little harm... type 'cat /dev/random > file' to pipe all that random text into a file until the owner's harddrive is filled. It does it quite quickly. - masterspy7, on 07/15/2009, -0/+89Jim?
- pfhayter, on 07/15/2009, -27/+91Buried as inaccurate ... there are no OS X machines in offices.
- ShrayMonks, on 07/15/2009, -0/+60^ Wtf?
- ExSlashdotter, on 07/15/2009, -0/+52inverts your display's colors. hit it again to put it back.
- serif69, on 07/15/2009, -0/+47Years ago there was a system extension someone had written for System 8 that shrunk the display resolution by 1 pixel every time the computer started up. My father installed it on one of his employees' machines. It took the guy months to figure out there was something wrong.
- fried, on 07/15/2009, -1/+42If you want to fill the harddrive its better to use /dev/zero it produces zeroes faster than random can produce noise
- L0NER, on 07/15/2009, -0/+39I had a work buddy of mine restart his computer like three times before calling the tech support, the IT guy told him that it must be his monitor....
They were about to order a new one when I spilled the beans. Priceless. - TylerDuhrdan, on 07/15/2009, -0/+39Mikey?
- TylerDuhrdan, on 07/15/2009, -1/+40BTW, dugg because my name is Jim.
- Zippo, on 07/15/2009, -1/+39If you've only got a few minutes and the person isn't amazingly familiar with OS X, the funniest and easiest pranks are turning on VoiceOver (which will annoy the ***** out of them as everything they click on is read out), or simply rotate the display settings by 180° and watch their eyes widen is disbelief as their entire desktop is upside down (and thusly, the mouse being inverted).
I've done this to a couple of my co-workers with decent results. - TrellSaracen, on 07/15/2009, -2/+37Buried for referring to "Never Gonna Give You Up" as 'eponymous'.
- flangepiece, on 07/15/2009, -1/+36It's a little-known fact that while the song was indeed performed by Rick Astley, it was actually written and produced by a man called Jeff Nevergonnagiveyouup.
- dixon86, on 07/15/2009, -3/+35comment fail.
- sklassen, on 07/15/2009, -0/+31Put their computer to sleep just by emailing them. Harmless but hysterical:
http://murphymac.com/slib/sleep-your-mac-by-email. ...
I did this to my coworker about 6 times before fessing up. Additionally, you can add an email rule that deletes the email you just sent them, so you remain anonymous. - Skootles, on 07/15/2009, -1/+30******
- c010rb1indusa, on 07/15/2009, -0/+26You can't hide all desktop items or hide the menubar by default in Mac OS X or turn the dock completely off, so this trick would be a little more complicated than it is on Windows.
- D14852001neko, on 07/15/2009, -0/+25... its not a virus you know...
- geodebug, on 07/15/2009, -1/+25>Access to Victim's Mac
Solution of course is to always put your computer to sleep with password enabled whenever you walk away from it. Good habit to get into no matter what OS you use and where you work. - HorseloverFat8, on 07/15/2009, -1/+24That's completely relevant to an article about OS X, good work.
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+22What does it do?
- tlarkin, on 07/15/2009, -0/+22I cannot believe that they didn't even use the say command. Man, so many times I will ssh into a co-worker's Mac (I work IT btw) and send a say command, like:
say "Johnny, quit looking at porn, and stop touching yourself. You are being watched!"
Of course I don't do this to users or clients, just other IT workers. - RMoore08, on 07/15/2009, -0/+22Oooh good idea!
- wontstoptalking, on 07/15/2009, -0/+21I think the "Jim" was a reference to The Office...
But Dugg because your name is Jim. - waluigi14, on 07/15/2009, -3/+23Don't forget to use IE, with all the security settings turned off. Now THAT could do some damage.
- RealmDown, on 07/15/2009, -0/+20Actually, that's always been our problem.
- TKDEE, on 07/15/2009, -0/+20This one is great, I've done it to people right in front of them and they still freak out.
- tk0680, on 07/15/2009, -1/+20I'm pretty sure that doesn't qualify as a joke.
- d3matt, on 07/15/2009, -0/+17we used to do this in the lab at school... no one would be sitting at the mac then it would randomly start uttering phrases!
- igyigyigy, on 07/15/2009, -0/+16I'm a big fan of this one, most people don't know it's there
- tnoy, on 07/15/2009, -0/+15Useless at stopping the IT people with admin access to every machine on the network.
- yan89, on 07/15/2009, -2/+17SSH
- theafroguy, on 07/15/2009, -1/+16oh, that's far too mean a prank to pull on anybody!
- SRSco, on 07/15/2009, -0/+14Too bad I don't know anybody's password to install any of this stuff.
- etx313, on 07/15/2009, -3/+17Cont+Opt+Command+8 gets em' every time.
- griz, on 07/15/2009, -0/+14Problem is, as the techies, we are the first ones the users come running to when the system goes berzerker. Also, the user will just see it as the computer is messed up and never appreciate the elegance of execution.
- BossKey, on 07/15/2009, -0/+14since like 1984.
(the classic After Dark screensaver had sound) - D14852001neko, on 07/15/2009, -0/+14then its the first that charges you 10 dollar, lol
- fmaxwell, on 07/16/2009, -0/+13"I've NEVER met an OS X user that could even have a whiff of a hope of beating me up."
That's only because there are no OS X user's in your mom's basement. - th3wiz4rd, on 07/15/2009, -0/+12ssh in then run this: open /Applications/*.*
- w4554, on 07/15/2009, -0/+12I like to go to the apple store and just leave one like that. *insert evil laugh here*
- StuartGibson, on 07/15/2009, -0/+12I know the new MacBook Pros have awesome battery life, but it's not weeks.
- spyderveloce, on 07/15/2009, -0/+12oh that is so mean! You are a an evil, evil person!
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