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The old rodent switcheroo is a panic! Phew, that's very funny
:-)
A perennial favorite is to make a screen capture of the desktop,
including an open document, and set it as the desktop background.
It is v-e-r-y disorienting, you'll see some real lost souls
struggling to regain familiar ground as they try and interact
with the picture. Haw! This used to be a hacker's ruse for
stealing passwords--they'd use a picture of the login screen.
NT's requirement for a three-finger salute at login ("Press
CTRL-ALT-DEL to log in") was designed to defeat bogus password
prompts.
Ned Bedinger
Ed Wordsmith Technical Communications Co.
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com http://www.edwordsmith.com
tel: 360-434-7197
fax: 360-769-7059
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From: "Jones, Donna" <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: More Friday pranks
> Another time, one of the other people in the room switched
Bonnie's and my
> mice on each other's mouse pads without disconnecting either
one from the
> original computer. We came back to our desks to find that our
mousing and
> cursor movements didn't go together. We both quietly rebooted
without the
> problem being fixed. It took a few minutes for both of us to
realize that we
> were having the same problem and then to figure out what had
happened. We
> had to admit that our cow-orker got us good with that one.
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