Mrkvonic
November 8th, 2005, 09:12 AM
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum, if not I apologize and please move the topic.
Now, I was not sure about the title either, but here's what I meant:
We are security-conscious people and we care about healthy computers and safe surfing. But have you ever made anything "mischievious" with computers?
I'll give some stories, others are welcome to join:
In early and mid-90s, in the high school, we studied Pascal language, so a couple of friends and I used the pascal to write residents that would launch with autoexecs and sit in memory and create random sounds and bleep and annoy people (mainly girls, we thought it would impress them :( ). We would also create fake batch files, that when launched simulated the format of the hard disk, including percentage done and all.
In the era of messenger, we would write a batch that sends 10000 netsends to one another ...
Lastly, in the era of early Windows and 95, we would screenshot the deskop, replace background image with the screenshot and then hide all icons in the right bottom corner of the screen, and people would start getting annoyed that mouse clicks didn't work (girls again :) ).
Now the times are too serious for jokes ... :(
If you have any ideas to share, please do.
If this topic is ridiculous, please shred it to tiny bits.
Mrk
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum, if not I apologize and please move the topic.
Now, I was not sure about the title either, but here's what I meant:
We are security-conscious people and we care about healthy computers and safe surfing. But have you ever made anything "mischievious" with computers?
I'll give some stories, others are welcome to join:
In early and mid-90s, in the high school, we studied Pascal language, so a couple of friends and I used the pascal to write residents that would launch with autoexecs and sit in memory and create random sounds and bleep and annoy people (mainly girls, we thought it would impress them :( ). We would also create fake batch files, that when launched simulated the format of the hard disk, including percentage done and all.
In the era of messenger, we would write a batch that sends 10000 netsends to one another ...
Lastly, in the era of early Windows and 95, we would screenshot the deskop, replace background image with the screenshot and then hide all icons in the right bottom corner of the screen, and people would start getting annoyed that mouse clicks didn't work (girls again :) ).
Now the times are too serious for jokes ... :(
If you have any ideas to share, please do.
If this topic is ridiculous, please shred it to tiny bits.
Mrk