This story is about the leaked code of Microsoft Windows on the internet and reports that it is laced with profanity.
[Via Joshua Claybourn]
Well that explains a lot of things. I can now blame subliminal cursing for all the times I have cursed Microsoft Products, especially the user-friendly Blue Screen of Death.
Computers and cursing reminds me of a practical joke I pulled off some years ago on an unsuspecting Civil Servant working on the base. At that time DOS was still the primary OS and Word Perfect was the word processor of choice. I got onto his computer and reprogrammed all of his keyboard keys via Word Perfect macros. Subsequently I watched him as he starting typing in a document manually from a paper document. When he looked up at the screen he was totally befuddled by all of the cuss words now present. He backspaced to delete them all and starting typing again with the same result. After he finally realized that I was the culprit and had programmed all of his keyboard letters into cuss words he yelled out “Chief Miller!!!”
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That’s an awesome story! You should start a sitcom called “Cheif Miller!” where Chief Miller pulls all sorts of unsuspecting pranks on the mean, repressed Quartermaster.
Victor,
I think I would be afraid that I would be played by Don Rickles. He also played a Chief on the 1976 series CPO Sharkey.
Haha a great windows prank I pulled once is to screen capture someone’s desktop into a bitmap file. Then set a picture of their desktop as their wallpaper . . . hide their icons and startbar. Everything looks the same, but when you click on “icons” or the “startbar” nothing happens, as it’s just the background…simple, but effective.
I used to play one (actually several) on my pharmacy school classmates where I would put up a web page for them with a picture of a dialog box that I constructed with some funky error message on it. It would scare them to death, and then they couldn’t click it.