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[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

You know when you have to keep it nice and polite for the records, but you still want to lay at least a portion of smackdown..

( Do you think he'll detect the sardonicism? )

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[zercool.livejournal.com]

Straight from the case notes:
"Please call M*** and tell him what is causing this problem and he can then solve it himself."

Holy shit. No kidding. We tell him what's wrong and how to fix it, and then he can solve it himself. Who'da'thunk.

*bangs head on wall*

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

Reloaded system. Uneventful HP System Recovery operation. Customer included Norton SystemWorks and Norton Personal Firewall for us to install. Installed System Works. Installation fine. Updated. Installed Personal Firewall. Installation fine. Both standard default installations.
Can no longer access Symantec liveupdate service.
Turned off firewall, updated fine.

*blink*

I really detest Symantec somedays.

April Fool's

[katyism.livejournal.com]

Let's start talking about our April Fool's Day plans for our clients/co-workers/offices/other computers/etc.

I work in a cubicle-based call center with about 20 phones and workstations, and I'm not prepared to do anything hackery software-related to every workstation (they are ghosted every night and I can't change the ghost image). Plus, even if I could, I wouldn't know what to do with the Macs. So I'll stick to hardware and physical pranks.

I'm hoping to get some inspiration and share my ideas to help out the rest of you. Mind you these are very low-key, I don't want people to have to clean up or miss hours of work repairing a huge involved prank. (Someone has already done the cubicle-full-of-styrofoam thing already)

So far, my ideas are:
pop off & rearrange keyboard keys to spell things
unplug all keyboards
switch monitor cables between 2 computers
hide all chairs in the bathroom/hide other shared objects
opaque stickers on the bottoms of the optical mice, remove mouse balls
for the kitchen: tape or rubber-band the faucet sprayer handle down so when someoneturns on the water they get sprayed in the chest.
rubber snakes, roaches, etc in the bathroom
glue quarters/dollars to desks/floor
something with phones/headsets (not sure what)
*EDIT* call the helpline on my lunch break and be an annoying user

How about yours?