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Re: Ask YC: Prank Hacking

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If they use a Windows computer, type the command Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow. It turns their screen upside-down. The other arrows work as well to turn the screen sideways. Not sure how familiar most people are with this though. I've always wanted to try it on someone and see how they reacted.

It works under X as well.

$ xrandr -o inverted

To get back to normal,

$ xrandr -o normal

Re: Ask YC: Prank Hacking

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post #18

If they use a Windows computer, type the command Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow. It turns their screen upside-down. The other arrows work as well to turn the screen sideways. Not sure how familiar most people are with this though. I've always wanted to try it on someone and see how they reacted.

ahhh ... no it doesn't. perhaps with a third party monitor utility ...

It might be a Dell thing. I've only tried it on Dells and I've seen it work on a couple laptops and an older desktop. Haven't really tested this extensively though. YMMV.

Re: Ask YC: Prank Hacking

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post #18

If they use a Windows computer, type the command Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow. It turns their screen upside-down. The other arrows work as well to turn the screen sideways. Not sure how familiar most people are with this though. I've always wanted to try it on someone and see how they reacted.

That's an intel video chipset utility. More recent ones support Ctl-Alt(left|right) as well.

Re: Ask YC: Prank Hacking

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Back in my frat-boy college days, the best prank ever happened to me. We were having a serious prank war. Then we had a dance marathon, which effectively left my room unguarded for 24 hours. So the prankster removed all of my furniture, removed my carpet, and put my furniture back exactly where it was. http://i28.tinypic.com/2ec17w1.jpg So me and my friend come back, exhausted, and walk in to no carpet. We were too t…

There's a variation of this prank which requires the victim to be drunk - and a fortuitous arrangement of rooms.

A student returned to his fourth storey room in a very drunk state and fell into a comatose sleep. While he was asleep, his friends swapped the contents of his room with an identical room on the ground floor. In the morning, four people with balaclavas burst into "his" room and threw him out of the window. Of course, he thought that he was on the fourth storey and that he was going to be thrown from a great height.

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