Here the other day while my two colleagues where out, I
got an idea for a
practical joke. We work with
user
support and PC
repair. Like any good(?)
IT personnel
all our PCs are
permanently open(Well, if we are going to
hack the PC every day or so it might as well be open...).
Anyway, I took a
screen grab on our internet PC
and modified it with
weird
colours and put it up in full screen. Then I took a
jumper
and put it on the 'keylock' pins on the
mother board, thus
blocking the
keyboard and the
mouse. And went to lunch,
were I meet the other two.
When we came back, they
noticed the strange
picture. They tried
the mouse and the keyboard. When that didn't help they
rebooted, to no use. Next one of them checked the keyboard
connectors, finding nothing wrong he pulled it out and put it
in again. This was when the other one saw that the lights on
the keyboard flashed once, as it was plugged in(The keyboard's
microcontroller starting up). He thought this meant the keyboard
only worked that
second(and then was powered down).
So he told the other one to
plug it in and out continuously
while he pressed the
enter as fast as he could...
At this time I just couldn't take any more and started laughing..
So they told me to fix it, if it was so simple...
I just pulled the jumper and
normality was restored.
Afterwards they too thought it was a good joke.