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Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by nitrogen »

StavrosK wrote: post #94
asnyder wrote: post #67

Six years ago my brother rented out a beach house in another state for the summer and would let me stay there with some friends. One fun summer week a good friend and I were enjoying the house to ourselves and decided to make a 7-11 run to pick up some much needed snacks and other provisions. When we got back from our adventure my key wouldn't open the door. Unbeknownst to us, this was the one time that closing the d…

Lockpicking skills come in handy in those situations. This reminds me of the time a friend got locked out of his car, but his trunk was open. The car only had 4 doors, however, so it wasn't much use. In the trunk was a broomstick, some rope and a, erm, we call them "parrot wrenches". Fortunately, one of the rear speakers could be lifted up a bit, so I fastened the wrench to the broomstick with the rope and slid it th…

When I was in high school my parents once gave me the ignition key to their van, but didn't tell me there was a separate door key. Fortunately I'd left the windows open a crack, and used the cable from my headphones to make a lasso to pull the lock open.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by nitrogen »

makmanalp wrote: post #148
kilian wrote: post #143

In high-school I was part of the webteam. This gave us slightly elevated privileges meaning we could get away with a lot of simple windows NT/XP hacking. We had internet on the 'non-internet' machine much to the awe of everyone else, chatted with each other via netsend, played games (until the admin sent us a netsend telling us to stop). Also, all pc's were numbered corresponding to their network name. You can reboot…

Hahahah, I figured out exactly what net send * did when I turned my head and looked at all the other computers in the lab :P

The help for net send is very dangerous to a young and curious user. It shows the *, but doesn't say what it does.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by Andrew_Quentin »

hasenj wrote: post #369
Andrew_Quentin wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite. As you were her bf, you have the same right as her. This is perhaps one of the benefits of being in the EU that in some cases you have more rights living in another country, that is spain, than in the UK, for a Uk citizen, especially in situations where a relationship with a person outside of the EU is involved.

Are you saying that "boyfriend" is a legally recognised relationship status in Europe?

It kind of depends on the Member State and the exact law of the EU. I do know however that it does not need to be husband and wife in many cases.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by nl »

moron4hire wrote: post #233

I had a really hard time convincing a large, corporate client to setup such basic things like a version control system, a central bug tracking system, or any kind of project documentation repository. Oh, did I mention this was only three years ago? It's 2007 and you're not using version control? Anyway, one day, another consultant who sat next to me got laid off and the company's IT guys never came around to remove h…

Additional hints in this environment:

1) Get a mini-hub for you desk: "To plug a Mac in for web testing" works well.

2) Keep it in a messy part of your desk, with lots of network cables, one of which goes under your desk to a spare computer, which you liberated "for testing" from IT.

3) Most desktops will fit on top of one of those under-desk draw things, and still let you push it under the desk, where no one will notice it.

4) Virtualize! VirtualBox is your friend. Suddenly you have 4 linux servers in your windows-only development environment.

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m-photonic wrote: post #338
earbitscom wrote: post #73

At my very first internet job, in 1998 or so, I was hired as a temp. They said they wanted me to find websites that would be good publishers for their content network. They said to do so by searching AltaVista for sites, and then looking to see if they had a web counter, the kind that say "You are visitor number XXX". If the counter said over 100,000 they considered that a good sized publisher and someone else would…

>I spent the next 90 days building a Rage Against the Machine fan site with my friend at home Is it still around? ;)

No. And boy did we find every picture and fact ever. I wish it was.

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Post by sbierwagen »

Terretta wrote: post #225
wallflower wrote: post #15

In a dorm, in the pre-digital cable days and before our dorm officially had cable, we bought hundreds of feet of cable and some signal amplifiers and gained access to the basement/maintenance areas and spliced the cable feed from the Dean who had it and ran cable up through the ducts to the ten or so rooms in our wing. Over Winter break, we came back and found the signal lost (someone had removed a segment to tell us…

In my dorm the extra run had to go from the ceiling above the dean's office, room to room above the drop ceiling tiles, through the built-in closets' top cabinets, and through cinderblock between every other room. Students were not allowed to have TVs, so the other part of the hack was to be in a video production class to be allowed to have a monitor, but open it up and splice a tuner to a BNC input then use a coax t…

>Students were not allowed to have TVs

Where the hell did you go to school, Utah?

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Post by Stevenup7002 »

burningion wrote: post #156

Free College Hack: In high school, I had a rough time with family stuff and my grades started to slack. I knew that getting a scholarship would be crucial if I wanted to go to college in the future. However, my grades simply weren't going to cut it for the Florida Lottery Bright Futures scholarship. I needed a 3.5+ GPA, a 1250+ SAT score, and 60 hours of community service in order to get their best 100% scholarship.…

Great story!

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Post by maushu »

dpritchett wrote: post #346
dholowiski wrote: post #272

This isn't that naughty, just a little subversive. I used to be the team lead in the tech support department at a company that manufactured high tech products. Our research department where all the super secret new products were developed was anshort walk from our building. I discovered that there was a meeting room in that building full of super secret, half finished, one of a kind products- and anybody could book t…

That sounds like a good way to familiarize your team with the product lines and to let your front-line experiences influence product development. Good job!

And that sounds like a good excuse if he got caught.

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Post by gacba »

iloveyouocean wrote: post #224

Free airport long-term parking hack. Upon returning from your trip, walk through the long-term parking gate and grab a new ticket from the machine. As you are leaving the lot, hand the attendant the new ticket. Tada, free parking.

Used that exact trick to get an ex-girlfriend's car out of short-term parking in the old Denver airport where it had been sitting for two weeks. She went to her mother's funeral on short notice and didn't know she parked in the expensive lot...My roommate and I figured out that trick to save her hundreds on parking on her return when I went to get her car.
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