An OS for punishment?

Why be so obvious? How about installing software that will randomly swap two keys. It will drive him insane.
 
lol that could be fun. Make it like the app I posted about, and swapping keys would be one of the random things it can do.
 
I once found a keyboard that had (IIRC) the X, Z, or S key swapped across the keyboard. Holy hell was that difficult to use.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Will windows 8 run on that? That's kind of mean though, I would probably do ME instead.

Or do a standard XP install or w/e the corporate standard is but just put lot of annoyances.

also, put "pskill winlogon" on a timer somewhere, like scheduled tasks or something.

I once wrote a quick little app for a coworker as a prank. Basically, it ran in the background and was called svchost.exe or something standard that it's normal to have more than one running, so it's hard to spot. At random, it would randomly do one of these things:

1: play a random windows sound
2: play a random PC speaker beep frequency
3: eject the cdrom drive
4: start to eat up lot of memory and cpu for a short interval

The randomness ranged from a minute to 4 hours, so in average it did something maybe twice a day.

He never left his sound on so I don't think he ever even heard a random windows sound. The beep he heard and wondered what it was, but eventually just disabled the pc speaker. The cdrom he could not figure out though. He knew that we used to login and do it so he thought it was just us again, but then he noticed it did it even when he brought his laptop home.

This went on for YEARS. Was pretty funny. I wonder if I still have that app somewhere.

Though, I think just putting windows ME is the quickest and funniest. Find a hello kitty theme for it or something, just to make it worse. Also install some kind of program like deep freeze so even if he tries to install something else it will just revert back.


Oh, another fun thing to do is to change keyboard keys. Like change the z and x. Something that's not used that often.
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Op, you need to do this. As a victim to an awesome prank that did some of these things, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!

My roommate started by randomly playing a sound, then opening my CD-ROM drive, and then went all out and started opening gay porn links. I never got him back, but how could I? It was an epic prank.
 
KENNYB said:
Op, you need to do this. As a victim to an awesome prank that did some of these things, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!

My roommate started by randomly playing a sound, then opening my CD-ROM drive, and then went all out and started opening gay porn links. I never got him back, but how could I? It was an epic prank.
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Well one way you could have got to him was to pretend that you enjoyed the links he sent :D
 
An app that swaps letters would be too easy to figure out. You need an app that randomly replaces every 20 to 50 characters typed with a letter from an adjacent key, like he made a typo. He could suffer for months going through multiple keyboards (possibly violently) wondering why his typing went to shit before realizing it was a prank.
 
Is it possible to randomly do a word-filter thing?
So 'assessment' might become 'buttessment', 'long' becomes 'dong' and things like that.
 
-Dragon- said:
An app that swaps letters would be too easy to figure out. You need an app that randomly replaces every 20 to 50 characters typed with a letter from an adjacent key, like he made a typo. He could suffer for months going through multiple keyboards (possibly violently) wondering why his typing went to shit before realizing it was a prank.
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I love this. That and removing all the ram and replacing it with 512mb like someone else mentioned.
 
I saw someone change another person's settings on their computer. The computer user went ballistic. The pranker managed to flip the mouse gesture. So when the user went up, the pointer went down (on the screen). The same for left/right. Everything was opposite. He also turned the sensitivity down to the very minimum. It was hard not to laugh while watching him make full strokes across his mousepad with his mouse (in the opposite direction) trying to figure out how to change the settings back.

If all else, I vote for a Linux OS with X11 minimal installed! Ought to look pretty bad at very least
 
FNtastic said:
I saw someone change another person's settings on their computer. The computer user went ballistic. The pranker managed to flip the mouse gesture. So when the user went up, the pointer went down (on the screen). The same for left/right. Everything was opposite. He also turned the sensitivity down to the very minimum. It was hard not to laugh while watching him make full strokes across his mousepad with his mouse (in the opposite direction) trying to figure out how to change the settings back.

If all else, I vote for a Linux OS with X11 minimal installed! Ought to look pretty bad at very least
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Late to the party here, but I pulled something like this on a college friend. He was new to Linux, and had gotten some sort of distro up and running but wasn't having a great time with it. While he was gone for the weekend, I ninja'd in and migrated all his data to a new distro for him to learn. The key things were a pink themed window manager, obnoxious Hello Kitty background, and .xsession launching an ugly xmessage prompt on login stating what I had done. He learned how to edit config files to undo the pinkness.
 
I have seen reactos over the years. I figure at the rate of development they may have something similar to the windows NT4 experience in about 20 more years..
 
If you are just going on smaller pranks, one of the pranks we have pulled before is changing the dictionary used for Word. That way when they would run the spell checker it would suggest all sorts of strange words and if they were not careful it would automatically change words for them.
 
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