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That reminds me of back when I was in high school. The IT guy was a big gamer and had installed RainbowSix on all the machines in the computer lab so we could play against each other during lunch time including himself.
One stuck up, self-righteous teacher heard about the game and tried to have the IT guy delete it from all the computers because they were "violent games that had no business being in school". He refused and the school's administration seemed to have his back on it. So during a computer class she instructed the entire class to delete the game folder from their computer and empty the recycle bin and then leave the file explorer open so she could walk around and see that it has been done.
While everyone else were deleting theirs I copied the game folder on my machine elsewhere, then deleted the original to show her that it wasn't there anymore. After she was gone I moved the folder back where it belonged and shared it on the network so everyone else could copy it back into their computer. The following lunch break it took less than 5 minutes to get the game back on everyone's computer and we kept playing like nothing happened. Get fucked, hag.
We just played Counter Strike 2D from a flash drive.
Those LAN parties with the entire class were insane and there was nothing they could do since it wasn't installed.
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IT is incompetent. You could easily disable ability to change desktop backgrounds for students
It's school IT, so it was probably a teacher who 'knows computers' and not anyone with IT training.
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Or have student logins to track whodunnit.
When I was at school you could just boot Linux off a USB and had full access to the HDD.
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I remember our stupid prank back in the day was to take a screenshot of your desktop, make it your background and delete all your icons.
Haha we all did that one. So funny watching angry teachers trying to click on things that were just screenshots. We also did it with things that were like annoying pop ups so you'd be really motivated to click to get rid of it.
Don't forget to flip the screenshot upside down, then flip the display on the monitor also upside down.
The computer will look normal, but the cursor will be move in the opposite direction.
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delete
You know you can just hide/show them in two clicks right?
Hide desktop was the way to go on XP with this prank.
I don't get the "thin white line across" part. Could someone explain?
Certain types of computer monitors can get a hardware issue (read: broken) that results in a permanent thin white line across or down the screen.
Hmm, but if it was a hardware issue the thin white line should appear regardless of if the screenshot was edited.
I guess anon wanted to mark the “trapped” computers
He needs to set it to like 15 seconds so people think they are crazy for awhile. Needs to go back to normal faster. And then like 500 normal screens in the folder.
This wasnt a prank but i grew up with linux on all my computers and they didnt allow linux on school computers but the it admin allowed me to install the windows hypervisor(idk the name) on it(apparently even if you have standard edition windows you can still install the packages for pro edition stuff) so from then on i just booted up windows to boot up linux.
We had a "computer monitor" kid that could've been the base of the stereotype you have in your head right now.
He acted like a god, everyone knew a lot more than him, ended up never leaving and became head of IT there. Got busted creeping on school girls. Classic cliche.
We actually required active monitoring, because we knew how to change the .pwd files.
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