What first world problem did you have today?

[CZroe]

O.M.G. A KITTY!

...doing the kitty thing by just staring at his food after begging and begging while trying to trip me up.

 

[snoopy7548]

I was mowing the lawn yesterday and I was passing by one of the shrubs in the front of my house when a baldfaced hornet flew out, then a bunch more. Luckily, I only got a brief sting on the nose by one of them. Today is the day of their reckoning...

 

[lxskllr]

My computer started typing all by itself. First noticed it in firefox with the dev console being opened, and misc selections being made to the page. Made me go "Hmm...". Watched it awhile, and tried to derive a pattern. It appeared to be concentrated on the bottom key row. I was a little concerned, and it still happened after unplugging the internet(Retarded rootkit?).

Downloaded and ran rkhunter, but it didn't show anything that couldn't be explained. Tipped my keyboard over looking for water or something the cats might have done, and that didn't produce much. Finally, dug out another keyboard(An even older Model M), and that seems to have fixed it. This keyboard has the accordion wire which I hate, but the keys feel nice and crisp. I'll try cleaning the old one, and maybe put it back into use, but I do prefer the keys on this.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember seeing a prank USB device you can plug into a computer and it just inputs random keystrokes. That's so evil, but yet so funny. Some systems have internal USB ports too.

As for today's FWP: My coffee is brewed and ready, but I can't go get it because my cat is on my lap. Send help.

 

[BoomerD]

I remember seeing a prank USB device you can plug into a computer and it just inputs random keystrokes. That's so evil, but yet so funny. Some systems have internal USB ports too.

As for today's FWP: My coffee is brewed and ready, but I can't go get it because my cat is on my lap. Send help.

Kill the cat. Let NOTHING get in the way of coffee.

 

[shortylickens]

My home internet went out. Trying the USB tethering of my Nokia. Its not great but it does work.
Constant rain for the last 20 hours may or may not be related.
In any case, its not fast enough for playing MMO's and I have a guild run this afternoon.
Also, for some reason I cannot make an account with Comcast. So I cant check their fucking Outages map. Which is horse shit.

 

[Leymenaide]

Wife and daughter in meltdown over which "Droste" cocoa to order. I have only kept one type since I bought my first box in the Netherlands in 1982. I just want my coffee in peace.

 

[sdifox]

Wife and daughter in meltdown over which "Droste" cocoa to order. I have only kept one type since I bought my first box in the Netherlands in 1982. I just want my coffee in peace.

Buy all. Done.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's a pigeon in my yard with a broken wing and it's still alive, I feel kinda bad for it, but I really don't know that anything can be done. I feel wrong killing it, but I also feel wrong letting it suffer. I might just go give it food at least it can die with a full stomac. I don't even think the police would really do anything either to dispatch it. The MNR would but I don't imagine they would have anyone working right now.

 

[sdifox]

There's a pigeon in my yard with a broken wing and it's still alive, I feel kinda bad for it, but I really don't know that anything can be done. I feel wrong killing it, but I also feel wrong letting it suffer. I might just go give it food at least it can die with a full stomac. I don't even think the police would really do anything either to dispatch it. The MNR would but I don't imagine they would have anyone working right now.

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[lxskllr]

I've had dove, and it's pretty good. Close enough to pigeon.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Think I'll just leave it alone, if I feed it I'm just extending the pain. It will either die of starvation or something will attack it. Let nature run it's course I guess.

 

[Exterous]

I remember seeing a prank USB device you can plug into a computer and it just inputs random keystrokes. That's so evil, but yet so funny. Some systems have internal USB ports too.

As for today's FWP: My coffee is brewed and ready, but I can't go get it because my cat is on my lap. Send help.

Back in ye olden days we would prank each other if we left our work computers unlocked. The prank couldn't inhibit your work significantly but beyond that...

One of my pranks was to install a USB header card with an internal USB slot that I added a wireless keyboard adapter to. Over the course of the next 2 months I would occasionally type on this spare keyboard to mess with my coworker. Drove him nuts. I finally told him when he was at the point of reimaging he computer

 

[Red Squirrel]

Back in ye olden days we would prank each other if we left our work computers unlocked. The prank couldn't inhibit your work significantly but beyond that...

One of my pranks was to install a USB header card with an internal USB slot that I added a wireless keyboard adapter to. Over the course of the next 2 months I would occasionally type on this spare keyboard to mess with my coworker. Drove him nuts. I finally told him when he was at the point of reimaging he computer

Oh man that sounds fun too. At helpdesk we did lot of pranks too and had a rule, if someone does not lock their PC it's "free game" within reasonable degree. Sending emails to the whole department etc... I once got on a coworker's computer while he was at the bathroom, I quickly whipped up a batch file with some made up error screen and a bunch of pause statements going to null so you could not see it by whatever you press nothing happens. Whipped it up in like 30 seconds and boss was like "woah we got a badass overhere" or some similar reaction, it was hilarious. Just a full screen dos session that said something like "System failure. Err. 0x00001BF07. You must reinstall Windows. " or something like that. Just to kind of throw him off with a completely unknown error. He gets to his computer and is like "what the hell?" Then he slowly looks at me while I'm trying to stay serious. "That's not even a real error!".

Used to also do the whole thing where you take a screenshot of everything and set it as desktop then minimize everything. That was always fun. Ejecting cdrom drives was also fun, had a coworker who let's just say it took him a while to clue in that it was us.

We also used to send emails to the whole department, until that got a bit out of hand... Started off with "I'm buying lunch today" then gravitated towards more inappropriate things like coming out of the closet lol. One time one of these accidentally made it to all employees... yeah the boss had to put a stop to that lol.

Another fun one, there was this employee at a customer location that seemed to have a crush on a tech. So one of us made a ticket that she "needed service". The boss had access to delete tickets so he was in on it and was going to delete it after. Well HIS boss called, and he was calling about a ticket so he had the ticketing system open... he saw the prank ticket, while my boss is sweating trying to explain it's a joke and he'll delete it, and his boss just jarred out even more and told him to set the priority higher on it.

Man fun times... back when the company was more laid back. I don't think any of that stuff would fly today.

 

[Exterous]

Oh man that sounds fun too. At helpdesk we did lot of pranks too and had a rule, if someone does not lock their PC it's "free game" within reasonable degree. [snip]

Man fun times... back when the company was more laid back. I don't think any of that stuff would fly today.

Yeah it does take the right environment for sure.

Some of the other things we did:
-Set a My Little Pony theme on a computer - deleted the standard Windows themes and then removed all permissions on that directory. We were super busy that week so I think he rocked that theme for a week before he had time to fix it
-Someone switched out my locked drawers with theirs and locked a wifi speaker in there and would randomly play sound effects like fart noises or creepy clowns
-I changed the Outlook auto complete dictionary on someone - so it autocorrected things like I -> me, will -> won't (We really only sent emails internally to the dept. Everything to the rest of the company was via phone or ticketing system)
-Created custom icons that looked like My Computer and other items on the desktop but instead ran small programs to open things like a web browser and go to questionable (but not forbidden) websites or notepad. I think most things we set just opened notepad. We couldn't let that one go on for long since that did affect the ability to work but it was funny for the 10min or so it lasted

Going on vacation was risky too.
-We shipped a lot of things so our building had a huge supply of packing peanuts. We duct taped a cardboard door to a person's cubical and filled it with packing peanuts. Took him a while to clean out the peanuts (which we gave back to the shipping dept) but he kept the door
-They relocated everything in my cube so I had to spend the first part of my day back wandering around till I found my stuff and then carting it across the building and hooking it all back up
-I got the ringleader back though and was good friends with the maintenance guy. We disassembled his cube and moved his stuff (desk, phone, computer) into a big open landing. He moved his stuff back the first day but didn't have cube walls for a while

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha sounds like fun.

At another job we used to use pskill and psexec on each other... open 1000 instances of notepad or solitaire in the background and person wonders why their PC is getting so slow. "did you open task manager?" "Oh you bastard!".

 

[CZroe]

In one of my college networking classes we were instructed to make virtualized sever and client Windows installations, create network shares, etc.

I made an extra VM with an extra share that had some enticing stuff... like "Save for April 1st" and left it wide open. This was back when the network message service was enabled by default in Windows, so I left a benign-looking batch file with some minimal obfuscation about what it did... like, getting a string from a text file or a filename to hide a command. This was back when the net message service was enabled by default in Windows so what it did was loop NET SEND * "APRIL FOOLS!" to the entire subnet until the person who activated it could break the execution.

It didn't take long before some Russian student in the class found it and ran it. The screen on every machine in class instantly filled up with thousands of NET MESSAGE prompts... far too many to dismiss manually. Everyone had to reboot their PCs in the middle of class. Of course, it showed that the messages were from the Russian student's machine, so I started anonymous exchange through shared files and such and got him thinking I was some ÜberHacker who had totally pwnd his machine. He eventually figured out who I was and kept begging me to show him my 1337 h@x0r skills but it was super-awkward since it was all a sham that he bought hook, line, and sinker. I really didn't have anything to show, but that only made him more convinced that I was holding out on him. I mean, all I did was use a feature built-in to Windows.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Daemn!! What`s with all the local restaurants and filling stations having their restrooms closed to the public!!!! Argggggg.....

 

[Red Squirrel]

In one of my college networking classes we were instructed to make virtualized sever and client Windows installations, create network shares, etc.

I made an extra VM with an extra share that had some enticing stuff... like "Save for April 1st" and left it wide open. This was back when the network message service was enabled by default in Windows, so I left a benign-looking batch file with some minimal obfuscation about what it did... like, getting a string from a text file or a filename to hide a command. This was back when the net message service was enabled by default in Windows so what it did was loop NET SEND * "APRIL FOOLS!" to the entire subnet until the person who activated it could break the execution.

It didn't take long before some Russian student in the class found it and ran it. The screen on every machine in class instantly filled up with thousands of NET MESSAGE prompts... far too many to dismiss manually. Everyone had to reboot their PCs in the middle of class. Of course, it showed that the messages were from the Russian student's machine, so I started anonymous exchange through shared files and such and got him thinking I was some ÜberHacker who had totally pwnd his machine. He eventually figured out who I was and kept begging me to show him my 1337 h@x0r skills but it was super-awkward since it was all a sham that he bought hook, line, and sinker. I really didn't have anything to show, but that only made him more convinced that I was holding out on him. I mean, all I did was use a feature built-in to Windows.

That's great. Someone sent a message to the entire hospital once with net send that said "wazuuuuuuup!". I think he meant to send it to one PC, but if you did not specify a computer name it just sent it to every PC lmao. We got flooded at help desk with calls asking what to do with the message lol. "Just click ok it's fine" "Are you sure it's not a virus?" lol.

 

[shortylickens]

I cant seem to get very many websites working for me, so I mostly pay bills by check.
Grass, HOA, Mortgage, electricity, insurance, water, waste, and cable.
Thats like 7 checks a month.
They come in little books of 25.


THAT AINT ENOUGH!

 

[snoopy7548]

I cant seem to get very many websites working for me, so I mostly pay bills by check.
Grass, HOA, Mortgage, electricity, insurance, water, waste, and cable.
Thats like 7 checks a month.
They come in little books of 25.


THAT AINT ENOUGH!

Why don't you fix your damn computer?

 

[sdifox]

I cant seem to get very many websites working for me, so I mostly pay bills by check.
Grass, HOA, Mortgage, electricity, insurance, water, waste, and cable.
Thats like 7 checks a month.
They come in little books of 25.


THAT AINT ENOUGH!

you know you can order cheques from printers directly right? you don't have to depend on your bank, just need a voided cheque picture.

 

[snoopy7548]

FYI, in America we call them "checks."

 

[sdifox]

FYI, in America we call them "checks."

Not the first time you Amerikanzys are wrong. Won't be the last either.

 

[lxskllr]

I cant seem to get very many websites working for me, so I mostly pay bills by check.
Grass, HOA, Mortgage, electricity, insurance, water, waste, and cable.
Thats like 7 checks a month.
They come in little books of 25.


THAT AINT ENOUGH!

Didn't know you were 70. I always thought you were younger than that.