What PRANKS did YOU Play on Your School, using the IT Computers

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0	What pranks did you play on your school using the IT computers?
0:05.0	Used an altered version of a JavaScript web browser hack that turns all of the pictures shown into pictures of French toast.
0:13.0	Rotated monitors 90 degrees in graphics card settings.
0:17.0	I did this a lot in primary school until my teachers sat me down for hacking the system,
0:21.3	and I was almost suspended.
0:23.9	My school district used mecks pretty much everywhere.
0:27.4	A couple of the most common pranks.
0:30.0	There was a key combination that would invert all of the colors on the screen.
0:33.3	If I recall correctly, it was the meta keys and eight.
0:37.0	It was a lot of fun to do this to someone who left their computer unattended and didn't
0:40.5	know that.
0:41.5	Then one of the function keys, I think F11 would move all of the windows to the outer
0:45.7	edge of the screen showing the desktop.
0:48.3	Pushing it again moved them back, but there was an animation associated with both of the movements.
0:53.3	If you held Shift while tapping F11, it would do the same thing but would the animation
0:57.7	slowed down. The thing is, it didn't matter if the animation had completed or not, the machine
1:02.6	would queue up another action for each time you hit F11, but wouldn't cancel the animation in progress.
1:08.8	So, if you were quick enough and someone wasn't paying attention, talking to their neighbor,
1:13.4	looking at a book, etc., you could lean over, spam shift plus F11 a few times, and effectively
1:19.3	force them to watch all of their windows slide in and out at a snail's pace for a minute
1:24.4	or two.
1:26.1	Took the Windows startup sound, edited in eight minutes of dead air, then edited in 15 seconds of bedroom noises.
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