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Tom Austin wrote:
> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
>
> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
You think that's bad? Try taking a PC, disconnecting the US keyboard and
hooking up a UK keyboard. Confuses the **** out of people until you load
the correct keymap.
[Unfortunately, we have quite a lot of US keyboards here. I blame Dell...]
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Tom Austin wrote:
> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
>
> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
If you really want to play evil games with people, take a calculator and
rearrange the bottoms the opposite way round. As in, if the buttons are
arranged as
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
change it to
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
Both arrangements are entirely plausible, and so nobody will think this
strange. Until they try to use it...
PS. I've always wondered... Do German keyboards have that weird
beta-like glyph on them?
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>
> > I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
> >
> > It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
>
> You think that's bad? Try taking a PC, disconnecting the US keyboard and
> hooking up a UK keyboard. Confuses the **** out of people until you load
> the correct keymap.
>
> [Unfortunately, we have quite a lot of US keyboards here. I blame Dell...]
again my k/board changes to the UK one but the keys are still the US layout.
Only in word. I love it.
BTW German K/boards are different from ours.
BTW2 How can you tell if a keyboard is a French one?
Stephen
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message news:472f982f@news.povray.org...
> Hehe, the old "take a screenshot of a window and set it as the desktop
> wallpaper" trick used to confuse the hell out of even the IT guys at
school
That was a prank going round the company I worked for round about 5 years
ago. Was a good laugh. Someone tried to do it to my PC. Problem was, they
couldn't find Paint, or the control panel. I was running litestep instead of
explorer as a windows shell. Good fun
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> Darren New wrote:
>
>> I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of
>> gas, too.
>
> I don't really know why, but some people become paralysed by fear when
> they go near a computer. Otherwise normal people become unbelievably
> stupid when confronted by a PC. It's as if their brain switches off
> while using one.
"Frequently, a normal, intelligent person loses grasp of all his
faculties when in the presence of a computer."
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_amnesia.shtml
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> That was a prank going round the company I worked for round about 5 years
> ago. Was a good laugh. Someone tried to do it to my PC. Problem was, they
> couldn't find Paint, or the control panel. I was running litestep instead of
> explorer as a windows shell. Good fun
Heh. I think I tried LiteStep once... Nice idea, but not very useable.
When I was at uni, there was a prank going round involving a file named
BEARDED.EXE. Any person incautious enough to run this program has their
Windoze wallpaper changed to an image of a fat naked women demonstrating
how bushy she is. And I don't mean her face.
I remember sitting next to Pam, and watching her run it, and her then
not knowing how to change the settings back to normal. (Personally, I
would have thought *anybody* would have more sense than to run an
attachment from Rich, but anyway...)
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> "Frequently, a normal, intelligent person loses grasp of all his
> faculties when in the presence of a computer."
It's a bit like this:
http://www.xkcd.com/231/
> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_amnesia.shtml
Customer: "What do you mean guess? I told you everything you need to
know! Now quit messing around and just tell me what I need to do to fix it!"
This sounds *far* too familiar. :-S
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Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> BTW2 How can you tell if a keyboard is a French one?
AZERTY?
--
- Warp
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Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:
> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
The nerdiness of a person can be measured by how long he uses a computer
with a fumbled keycapping setting (but with intact keymapping) before
noticing that the keyboard caps have been changed.
--
- Warp
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http://www.google.com/search?q=german+keyboard
...
kk
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