[THIN] Re: Proof Microsoft has a sense of humor
- From: "George Yobst" <george.yobst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:45:12 -0800
Euan,
Did you get a 'sharky' for that? Excellent story BTW!!!!!!
http://www.computerworld.com/action/sharktank.do?command=viewDaily&date=20061108
mailto:sharky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <sharky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-George
On 11/8/06, Euan Cooper <euan.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 <http://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
>
>
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