I got a verbal spanking at work today...

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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:19 pm

You'll know you got the meta data when you read

Quote:

Who needs fucking html software?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:24 am

Pssst, Reprob8. How about "Go Raiders"! Or "Try Vicodin". Wink

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:06 am

I love the button Rebrob8. I think that having a counter and setting it off every 30th time might be even more evil.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:34 am

Connie, what a genius you are! That way, it would make it impossible to track. Someone kinda sees it once, they tell their manager who tries to go in to see it, and it doesn't happen. Now it all falls on the employee who pushed the button.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:13 pm

RooRoo wrote:

God what wankers.

HR people are just like air hostesses ie EVIL FEMBOTS.

What do you mean? I used to be in HR until the end of 2005? Are you trying to tell me something? Evil or Very Mad

Actually, some are quite fun and others do fit into the wanker category quite easily.

EDITED TO ADD:@KD I do.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:48 pm

Hugh Jundys wrote:

Now it all falls on the employee who pushed the button.

It said 'You Suck', see? See? No wait, it did, it really did. Ummm... *frantically oushing button* see? SEE! Look, right there, 'You Suck'! Ummmmm... it did, honest.... errrrr.... shit!
Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:11 pm

Ah, but the experiment is in this: Would the employee do whatever it takes to press that button another 30 times? How many times would they be allowed to repeat the process before the boss called in the nice men with the special jacket that makes you hug yourself?

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

At my former company, the control window for one of our products (enterprise RAID system), if you type in "stinky" into the panel, it will scroll the following message forever "Eat stinky cheese for better health!" After finding that easter egg in the code, I started finding hundred more. I never had them removed. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:08 am

I once used a hexeditor to change all the error codes in command.com (DOS).

That was fun.

Instead of "Command not known or not found" all the students in our institute at the university got: "Damn, are you fucking stupid!"

[I miss the simple old DOS days. Confused

]

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 80

oh hell. Here comes the confession posts.

Back in 1999, on older HP Laserjet printers, it was possible to change the error messages on the printers (for example, Microsoft used to display their stock prices on their company printers and have them updated).

Well...at the company that _I_ was working at, no one was computer literate, and this was during the peak of the Y2K scare.

I changed the main printers display to read "NOT Y2K COMPATIBLE" on a Friday afternoon. The office was open over the weekend; when I came back on Monday, we had a new printer.

Embarassed

(see this link for something similar - http://netpeek.netfirms.com/hpprint.shtml but I remember typing it in from dos )

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:49 am

one of my colleagues, who is in IT for maybe 30 years or so, told me this story:
Back in the old days, he was working with Siemens Nixdorf and was doing assembler programming on their machines. One time he wrote a little piece of software that let the harddisks get accessed in the rhythm of the blue danube waltz at a certain time of the day and rolled it out on the workstations Laughing

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:18 am

reprob8
that is f***** funny. what does your company think it will do?
change everyone to be a steelers fans??

Laughing

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:18 am

Yeah the old DOS days. Very Happy

I must admit being in a sever romm with all the drives humming blue danube waltz would be really cool, and scary.

Master Baiter Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 113

Confession - Before I left my last job because of a bullying boss, I got into his login (tip- If you type your password with one finger, it's easy to spot...)
and changed the "auto-correct" on Word so that every time he typed his name it changed to "Rat-Boy" (That's what everyone called him behind his back)

I heard from a colleague that he had sent out god knows how many letters/emails etc signed off that way.

Coupled with the fact that I left for a job with double HIS salary, it left a smile on my face.....

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:15 am

The moral of this story is Do Not Mess With Tekkies unless you have a damn good reason Laughing

And get a sense of humour too.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:44 pm

Here's one I've posted here a few times already. It proceeded the one I posted above by one DOS version:

Back in the days of old, when DOS was still the main system on IBM compatible PCs (1988), we had a professor at the university who always came into the computer room of our institute in the morning and deleted all the students' user files, because he thought they were going to clog up the hard disks. The HDs were large for that time (40MB), but he really believed that the students were all totally stupid and that a few ASCII-files would fill everything up.

So, I used a Hex-Editor and debugged command.com on all the computers. I changed the "del" command to "dal." I then changed the error message "Command not known or not found" to "Fuck off - ASSHOLE!" All the students knew that they had to use "dal" to delete anything.

The result was a professor running around through the halls and the library screaming at everyone he met, because every time he tried to delete anything, the computer told him to "fuck off"!

We all had fun for months!! Very Happy

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:57 pm

Imagine the fun I had when Win 3.x splash screens changed.................... Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:45 pm

You guys are evil Laughing

I have programmed as a hobby for 15 years but 4 years ago I wrote a very big application which supports me today. It never occured to me to do anything like this.

All that will change on Monday Twisted Evil

For the first hidden message I will use "Thanks, Reprob8" (for the idea) and then change the message with each update.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:03 pm

Hey Reprob8, that screen shot is pretty small, but doesn't that Irishman have six toes?

And having that comment in for copyright protection is a good idea. About 10 or 12 years ago when I was working in Australia, I produced a 400 page company product manual for an international lubricant company, about 25,000 copies were printed. Anyway, the last 60 pages were compilations of generic information, standards, conversion factors and such. I included a deliberate mistake about every 10 pages, just as a signature.

Anyway, a couple of years later another company produced a similar product manual, complete with about 60 pages of very familiar looking data - complete with my deliberate mistakes.

FUCHS LUBRICANTS - you're a bunch of thieving A holes!!!!

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:17 pm

^^^^ Companies that print maps often add small roads that don't exist to rural or residential areas on their maps. Phonebook companies also tend to have fantasy names and numbers added every few pages so they can prove that somebody has copied their product.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:37 pm

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap" "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword" I'm sure there are many more. Laughing

Pretty neat though!

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

Rep, the 'Club of the Unemployed' has an opening. YOur desk will be next to mine Smile

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:42 am

^^^I'll bring the candy.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:12 am

I remember seeing a site which had loads of digital graffiti stuff in it. Alot of people who design or finish a product will want to leave an easter egg in there. I seen some really awesome ones which are really obvious once shown it but otherwise would never have found it.

I guess this is one of the most well known ones...
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/billsux.html

.. which was hoaxed

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:03 am

Yeah, the ol' Auto Correct in Word is always fun, and for some more lo-tech ha-ha's, I simply reverse the right and left mouse buttons on a certain someone's PC.

But I also got in trouble this week, when I took that famous picture of Frank Sinatra with his arms around the shoulders of some very well known American gangsters, and superimposed some of my coworkers and my faces on it, and emailed it around work. Very funny, I thought.

And the boss is a buddy, so I included him on the email but he sent an email back (copy to everyone) that I could have completed nine other projects in the time I took to do that.

So, one of my co-workers jumped into the fray and shot one back saying, "In fairness to John, he didn't do that picture, he outsourced it to China!"

Which is a sensative issue around here. But not to be outdone, the boss shot back, that in that case, I could have done eighteen more projects in that time.

Sheesh, thank goodness he's going away for two weeks.

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