Here's one that I can't even remember how to fix, so maybe someone can help me in that department. (I just did it to myself to make sure it still worked. Oops.)
1. Create a large file. I don't care how or what type, but it must be a file.
2. Turn on file extensions.
3. Train monkeys to joust.
4. Change the file extension to '.' For example, if the file was 'Elephant.exe' it should be changed to 'Elephant..'
If someone else wants to try this to verify the results, please do. I did it to myself and i got a different result than I remember getting while back, although both are equally as confusing.
I'm on Win7. I don't remeber what this does in XP.
[editline]27th October 2010[/editline]
Update:
I've been goofing around with this, and I've been able to produce all of the outcomes I remember.
I started with a file 'Primer.wmv'
Changed it to 'Primer..'
File becomes un-removeable, but you can search for Primer.wmv in the start menu and remove it. (?)
I then did the same thing, but I refreshed the desktop inbetween the name change and the attempt to remove. For some reason this allowed me to remove it regularly, but it disappeared from the file search. Also, the really did remove the file extension.
I then took this extension-less file and gave it the '..' extension. This caused it to disappear from everything, only to be recovered by a ctrl-z.
Anyone know what's going on?
Pull out the power switch on the Psu, put it in wrong way. Turn Psu off, so that now it looks like it's on.
Will drive them batshit insane.
Ok, Set desktop as background like everyone else said, then disable all USB ports, underclock it to the lowest possible setting, then set to not boot the hard drive, oh and add tape to the mouse. :smug:
Optional: remove the cpu and hide it but put the heatsink back on, disconnect the hard drive, and remove the bios battery. Install some faulty ram, switch out the hard drives
install a french language copy of an obscure, terribly put-together linux distro
How would you go about disabling USB ports? Device Manager?
Flick PSU voltage switch.
Clock the processor to 11:00 AM.
[tab]hur am i funy now[/tab]
Ctrl+alt+^
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Hardware Profiles
I believe within there you can forcibly set the resolution. Set it to some crazy small amount.
Remove windows boot manager, replace it with GRUB.
Now, this one may be difficult, but if you manage to pull it off, it would be epic.
First, remove everything from the computer. EVERYTHING. Only thing left should be a case.
Take the mobo out of an old Mac G5 or earlier. Has to be PowerPC, not Intel. Mount it in the PC's case. Hook everything up, so it's a running system. Install whatever variant of Linux you want, then do everything you can to make it look like Windows.
Do nothing else. Give them a fully functional system, that looks just like a fully functional PC system.
After an hour or so of trying to figure out what's wrong, they'll probably say that it works fine. Tell them that you uninstalled IE, and that (to be fully "repaired") IE needs to be reinstalled.
Cue everything going downhill for them as they slowly realize everything they know is wrong.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;25688231]Now, this one may be difficult, but if you manage to pull it off, it would be epic.
First, remove everything from the computer. EVERYTHING. Only thing left should be a case.
Take the mobo out of an old Mac G5 or earlier. Has to be PowerPC, not Intel. Mount it in the PC's case. Hook everything up, so it's a running system. Install whatever variant of Linux you want, then do everything you can to make it look like Windows.
Do nothing else. Give them a fully functional system, that looks just like a fully functional PC system.
After an hour or so of trying to figure out what's wrong, they'll probably say that it works fine. Tell them that you uninstalled IE, and that (to be fully "repaired") IE needs to be reinstalled.
Cue everything going downhill for them as they slowly realize everything they know is wrong.[/QUOTE]
Imagine trying to install windows on that.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;25688231]Now, this one may be difficult, but if you manage to pull it off, it would be epic.
First, remove everything from the computer. EVERYTHING. Only thing left should be a case.
Take the mobo out of an old Mac G5 or earlier. Has to be PowerPC, not Intel. Mount it in the PC's case. Hook everything up, so it's a running system. Install whatever variant of Linux you want, then do everything you can to make it look like Windows.
Do nothing else. Give them a fully functional system, that looks just like a fully functional PC system.
After an hour or so of trying to figure out what's wrong, they'll probably say that it works fine. Tell them that you uninstalled IE, and that (to be fully "repaired") IE needs to be reinstalled.
Cue everything going downhill for them as they slowly realize everything they know is wrong.[/QUOTE]
That is probably the best here so far
[QUOTE=gman003-main;25688231]Take the mobo out of an old Mac G5 or earlier.[/QUOTE]
We hipsters call it a "logic board" :eng101:
Disable keyboard in BIOS, before that put a password on the computer and in the password hint type the password.
Prime 95 made my PC shut down :saddowns: almost had slilcone fried 980x
[QUOTE=Axiom :D;25690494]Prime 95 made my PC shut down :saddowns: almost had slilcone fried 980x[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Axiom :D;25627622]I can overclock my 980x to 4.4 Ghz on air.[/QUOTE]
Apparently not :eng99:
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;25691468]Apparently not :eng99:[/QUOTE]
It runs, but that doesn't mean it's a fully stable overclock. If he were to do something really processor intensive (ie - Prime 95), it would overheat and force itself to shut down.
All he needs to do is slightly lower the clock rate until Prime 95 runs stable for a decent amount of time. That is how you fine tune an overclock.
If its a CRT monitor with the controls for shape you could screw up the display drastically. Partition the hard drive into the most number of pieces so you can still put a tiny version of Linux on each and one with the actual OS and name them all randomly. Make the boot sequence random too so they will take hours booting and restarting until they find the right partition. Then do the stuff everyone else is saying.
And replace the thermal paste with human feces.
ctrl-alt-uparrow.
UNLEASH THE KRAKEN
[QUOTE=VeniVidiVici74;25693136]ctrl-alt-uparrow.
UNLEASH THE KRAKEN[/QUOTE]
you know that only works with certain drivers for integrated Intel chips, right?
[QUOTE=AlarinTaylor;25683581]Here's one that I can't even remember how to fix, so maybe someone can help me in that department. (I just did it to myself to make sure it still worked. Oops.)
1. Create a large file. I don't care how or what type, but it must be a file.
2. Turn on file extensions.
3. Train monkeys to joust.
4. Change the file extension to '.' For example, if the file was 'Elephant.exe' it should be changed to 'Elephant..'
If someone else wants to try this to verify the results, please do. I did it to myself and i got a different result than I remember getting while back, although both are equally as confusing.
I'm on Win7. I don't remeber what this does in XP.
[editline]27th October 2010[/editline]
Update:
I've been goofing around with this, and I've been able to produce all of the outcomes I remember.
I started with a file 'Primer.wmv'
Changed it to 'Primer..'
File becomes un-removeable, but you can search for Primer.wmv in the start menu and remove it. (?)
I then did the same thing, but I refreshed the desktop inbetween the name change and the attempt to remove. For some reason this allowed me to remove it regularly, but it disappeared from the file search. Also, the really did remove the file extension.
I then took this extension-less file and gave it the '..' extension. This caused it to disappear from everything, only to be recovered by a ctrl-z.
Anyone know what's going on?[/QUOTE]
Ok, so I goofed around with this some more. Basically, here's what you need to do to screw the other team over.
Create massive file that fills up the HDD. You can do this however you please.
Remove the file extension, so it's just a unusable file.
Then, change the extension to "." So "file" should become "file.."
The file should disappear, never to be seen again. You can ctrl-z to bring it back, but after a reboot they are going to have a tough time figuring out why the hard-drive is full.
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;25672395]MSDOS was the shit.[/QUOTE]
Sorry I'm late, my abacus doesn't support IP.
Oh man I wish my school did this.
First I'd make a simple fork loop and set it to startup on login with msconfig, set it to autologin on startup then disable USB ports and PS/2 ports and reboot, Go into bios and set the multiplier to x1 then startup my popcorn .gif's and wait.
Pull out the pin of the green wire from the atx connector, use pliers to take the pin of the wire, cut of the wirestrands, reapply the pin to the wire with the pin only touching the outside of the insulation so it will look like everyting is in order but it wont have contact with the actual conductor inside, reinsert the pin and wire into the atx connector and voila... it wont boot.
Do this along with some of the other ideas in this tread.
steal their PSU
or take apart the PSU, than cut the main two wires.
My class today was 3 hours long.
My team for first place thanks to everyone here.
The other teams were not very creative.
Thank you everyone!
[QUOTE=Gimmmik;25704603]My class today was 3 hours long.
My team for first place thanks to everyone here.
The other teams were not very creative.
Thank you everyone![/QUOTE]
What did they do?
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