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Step away from computer and find a nice vantage point to watch them click and scream at their non-responding computer.
Works a treat.
My favorite low-cost easy-peasy make-'em-feel-stupid prank: take a screen capture of their desktop (without any windows open) and set the screen cap as the desktop background. Next, delete/hide (depending how nasty you want to go) all their desktop icons. If the taskbar is always visible, hide it too, or even better, resize it to zero pixels. Step away from computer and find a nice vantage point to watch them click a…
Air Conditioning ducts, particularly of those with Central Air. Get some catfish bait, a few pounds of shrimp, fart bombs, or even a few dead squirrels - all of these worked well for me in High School. Squirrels are probably by far the best and I recommend combining them with another form of attack. Place a few pounds of shrimp in one location and throw some frozen squirrels elsewhere. About the time the shrimp smell…
I didn't know about the ENV variable at the time, so it took me a few minutes to puzzle out. I cheated with a carefully crafted find command.
We used Mac workstations in that office. The Mac OS has a sort-of vulnerability where, if you can get admin access to it, you can create an invisible administrator account on the machine with ssh privileges. I always wanted to do that, and then modify the su command on our server to watch for his username, ssh back to his machine, and play the "Oh my god, they gave you ROOT?!" clip from Jeffrey Hitchins' "Tech Support".
Fairly simple with php or something lol
It was hilarious.
My favorite low-cost easy-peasy make-'em-feel-stupid prank: take a screen capture of their desktop (without any windows open) and set the screen cap as the desktop background. Next, delete/hide (depending how nasty you want to go) all their desktop icons. If the taskbar is always visible, hide it too, or even better, resize it to zero pixels. Step away from computer and find a nice vantage point to watch them click a…