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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Kintaro on 8 November 2002, 17:49

Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Kintaro on 8 November 2002, 17:49: I recently went into a "Dick Smith Electronics" store (An aussie franchise) where there was about 10 computers all running XP. They all has Internet Explorer on some page... I pointed about 6 of them to the "Whats so bad about Microsoft" article on this site! Then i just pretended to look at som DVD's and looked to see what people thought.

Some people has a good look, until the staff came and fixed it... I went to another place at the store to look at some subs, when a security gaurd told me to leave. (Damn those cameras watching the PC's)

Oh well...
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Refalm on 8 November 2002, 17:57: I once redirected all the computers at school to Nathan's Internet Explorer is evil! (http://www.toastytech.com/evil) page.

That was fun ;)

[ November 08, 2002: Message edited by: Refalm ]
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Kintaro on 8 November 2002, 18:12: Yea, i did that once or twice before... Im going to a LUV (Linux Users Victoria (which is a Linux user group)) Installfest where i will meet lots of people into Linux... And help lots of people get into Linux!
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: TheQuirk on 9 November 2002, 02:16: I put a password protected screen-saver on all the XP computers at Gateway to say "To get a real computer, go to www.apple.com. (http://www.apple.com.) Or at least get a real OS from linuxiso.org"

I actually don't have anything against x86 - I just wanted to anger the Gateway folk.
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: xyle_one on 9 November 2002, 04:55: yeah, i did that at "best buy". i locked a few windows xp machines. They only had one account setup with no password, so i just created a password and restarted the machines. (http://smile.gif)
the next time i went in they had fixed their errors, all the machines had passwords. but what a pain in the ass, have to reinstall the os on all those machines. and those half witted "tech" guys at best buy couldnt change the desktop picture let alone install anything. anyways, it was fun.
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: hm_murdock on 9 November 2002, 05:02: things were most fun back in the late 3.x and early 95 days, when nobody had any fucking clue about how passwords worked. If you knew how to set them, you were a l337 god.
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Calum on 9 November 2002, 06:03: i set a few of the computers in a couple of internet shops in Bayswater to have fuckmicrosoft.com as their homepage, but i went back there later, and the bastards had blocked the domain! i couldn't even see this forum!!! i felt like demanding my 50p back!
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Kintaro on 9 November 2002, 14:39: With XP change the Computer Description to "and get an apple" and the Login screen will have at the bottom

Turn off and get an Apple
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: black_angel2 on 9 November 2002, 18:55: bayswater? you live in perth?
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Kintaro on 9 November 2002, 19:03: I live in Victoria (The land of good beer).

East Susburbs of melb (Narre Warren Nth).
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Bazoukas on 11 November 2002, 06:30: At my school, i hack the registry and install as a wallpaper any Linux wallpapers i can find on the web.

Mind you, they have the boxes, locked, no downloads, no change to settings, no nothing.

Yet you can go via explorer and hack the registry like its going out of style.
Title: Computer Joint Rampage
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 11 November 2002, 06:49: Every weekend my Mac buddies and I drive to Tacoma to fix up the Apple Store inside a Store at CompUSA. The employees at that place seriously don't give a damn about the Apple store. It looked like an earthquake hit in there. I usually set their browsers for Apple.com or my site.

Also, I like to mess with the Compaqs at my school. Last week I got kicked out of the computer lab for resetting the desktops to show the Linux Penguin (as if any of the idiots at my school know what that is).