> Naw, if I want to freak someone out I VNC in while they are editing some 
> text and keep mixing up their spelling. Or if they try to click an icon you 
> move the cursor just a few pixels off target. Nasty, and everybody who has 
> ever seen VNC has probably done it, but great fun while it lasts.
> 
> One guy took about 15 seconds before he wanted to ram the PC off the 
> desktop.

You take BOFH to new hieghts. O_O

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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:49:05 +0200, Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Naw, if I want to freak someone out I VNC in while they are editing some
> text and keep mixing up their spelling. Or if they try to click an icon
> you move the cursor just a few pixels off target. Nasty, and everybody
> who has ever seen VNC has probably done it, but great fun while it
> lasts.
> 
> One guy took about 15 seconds before he wanted to ram the PC off the
> desktop.

Reminds me of using remote control software + Wordperfect as a chat 
application (from my college days).  The friend I needed to chat with had 
loaned his login to another student, and the other student was in 
business administration or something - he totally freaked out when WP 
started talking to him. ;-)

Jim

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> Naw, if I want to freak someone out I VNC in while they are editing some
> text and keep mixing up their spelling. Or if they try to click an icon 
> you
> move the cursor just a few pixels off target.

Once my gf was playing poker on my laptop using the touch pad, but I had an 
external mouse connected too.  Just as she was about to click "fold" I 
budged the pointer so she bet a few $$s on a crap hand :-)

> Nasty, and everybody who has
> ever seen VNC has probably done it, but great fun while it lasts.

Hehe once I was on my computer and suddenly notepad gets loaded and someone 
starts typing to me!  *That* was freaky.

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>> Naw, if I want to freak someone out I VNC in while they are editing some
>> text and keep mixing up their spelling. Or if they try to click an 
>> icon you
>> move the cursor just a few pixels off target.
> 
> Once my gf was playing poker on my laptop using the touch pad, but I had 
> an external mouse connected too.  Just as she was about to click "fold" 
> I budged the pointer so she bet a few $$s on a crap hand :-)

...and you still have a gf? o_O

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scott wrote:
> Hehe once I was on my computer and suddenly notepad gets loaded and 
> someone starts typing to me!  *That* was freaky.

Back in the X days, we used to connect remotely and replace the background 
image with something rude, but that was about the extent of it.

Or take a screen snapshot, make that the background, then minimize all the 
windows.

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     Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams? Then he is malevolent.

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Darren New wrote:

> Back in the X days, we used to connect remotely and replace the 
> background image with something rude, but that was about the extent of it.

In my first few days at work, an email started circulating containing an 
attachment named BEARDED.EXE. If you are stupid enough to run an 
executable attachment received from Justin of all people... well, you 
get what you deserve, basically. (It changes your Windows background to 
a very grainy JPEG image of... um... a bearded lady. And I'm NOT talking 
about her face!)

> Or take a screen snapshot, make that the background, then minimize all 
> the windows.

OMG, that's *evil*! o_O

I once sent out an email containing a picture showing the location of 
the button you're supposed to press or something, and one guy actually 
tried to click the picture in the email (and then get mad at me because 
it didn't do what I said it would). There's always one...

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scott wrote:

> Hehe once I was on my computer and suddenly notepad gets loaded and
> someone
> starts typing to me!  *That* was freaky.

Yeah! The first time I got VNC'ed I was freaked out like totally. 

But a damn useful tool though (at least for what I do using it).
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Stefan Viljoen

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Darren New wrote:

> scott wrote:
>> Hehe once I was on my computer and suddenly notepad gets loaded and
>> someone starts typing to me!  *That* was freaky.
> 
> Back in the X days, we used to connect remotely and replace the background
> image with something rude, but that was about the extent of it.
> 
> Or take a screen snapshot, make that the background, then minimize all the
> windows.

I found myself doing it to myself yesterday... *blush*

Ok I had little sleep the past few days. I GIMP'ed up a screen shot of 
Firefox for something I was working on, then alt-tabbed over to Emacs to 
edit something, then alt-tab back to Firefox to see if my change did what it 
was supposed to and... no response.

No matter what I did, FF was totally dead. No amount of clicking, typing, or 
anything else would help.

I was just starting to panic when I realized I was clicking on the 
SCREENSHOT I just ook, not the actual FF instance that was running... *blush 
squared*

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Stefan Viljoen

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Or take a screen snapshot, make that the background, then minimize all
> the windows.
> 

My absolute favorite is to create a folder named "porn" to the desktop
and do the same thing. It's impressive how many people noticing that
folder on someone's desktop try clicking it when they notice, even while
they shouldn't even access the computer anyways.

-Aero

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On 11/19/09 10:28, Darren New wrote:
> Or take a screen snapshot, make that the background, then minimize all
> the windows.

	Heh heh. I've done that to others too. Lots of fun to watch. Porn will 
merely lead to them quickly changing the wallpaper. This one just confuses.

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