[THIN] Re: Proof Microsoft has a sense of humor
- From: "Euan Cooper" <euan.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:32:08 +1300
Years ago [1] one of the young techs came back from his first training course
and though it was cleaver to alter the autoexec.bat on one of the sales droids
PCs to simulate a RAM error. Of course the sales guy had an URGENT quote to
get out[2] so I got called back from a job to "FIX" his PC as some of the stuff
he needed for his quote was on the local drive and not the network[3].
Anyway after I had quickly worked out what had happend I decided to sort the
young tech out - I hacked a copy of Command.com to run a different batch file
rather than autoexec.bat. I then altered the network[4] logon script to
randomly replace the the command.com on his PC with my "hacked" one and to copy
my custom batch file into his windows directoy and hide the file.
The batch file would copy a clean command.com back onto his PC and then
simulate a number of ram/hang errors - off course a reboot would then "fix" the
problem.
After a few weeks of all sorts of "problems" with his PC which he tried to fix
by replacing the RAM, replacing the motherboard, reformatting the hard drive
and re-installing everything, replacing the hard drive and running every
diagnostic program he could find I fessed up that I was responsible and that if
he wanted to play little games on other staff's computers I would play my games
with his computer .....
-Ec
1 back in the DOS/windows 3.1 days
2 EVERYTHING the sales droids do is always URGENT
3 Even though they had been told MANY times NOT to store anything on thier
local HD
4 Netware 3.1
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Greg Reese
Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:01 a.m.
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Proof Microsoft has a sense of humor
we've already tortured abotu four people around here. You know you're a geek
when you use a gpo to prank people with something like this.
On 11/9/06, Landin, Mark < Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sick sick sick.
Gonna install it on my boss' laptop tonight. :)
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:41 PM
To: Thin; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Proof Microsoft has a sense of humor
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/BlueScreen.mspx
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/BlueScreen.mspx>
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