Arachne
01-14-2007, 07:10 PM
Here's a story from the annals of my sordid youth that might amuse everyone:
This particular story takes place back in the dark ages, when computers booted into DOS, and then you accessed Windows from there. At the time, I was just getting interested in the inner workings of computers, largely because I had a boyfriend at the time who was a pretty big geek. He taught me a trick wherein he could change his C: prompt to whatever he wanted it to say. I think he had it say something like "How can I serve you, Master?"
Anyway, this newfound skill of mine gave me an idea. One day, when my father was off doing something else, I snuck over to his laptop, fired it up, and changed his command prompt to read: "DRIVE C: FATAL ERROR. REFORMAT DRIVE C:? (Y/N)" or something of that sort. The idea was that he'd turn on his computer, have a really big scare, call me in to fix it, and I'd reveal the prank and we'd both have a good laugh, and he'd be impressed with my computer genius.
Unfortunately, that's not how it turned out. Instead, my father decided that this problem was too ugly to entrust to his daughter, and so, without alerting me, he called tech support.
Apparantly, it took a long time before she figured out what I'd done. Fortunately, my dad's not an SC, so everyone had a pretty good laugh. (Knowing my dad, he probably flirted with her, though.) Afterwards, he tracked me down and pranked me back, by pretending that he'd called tech support and they'd really made him reformat his C: drive. I about had a heart attack until he started laughing at the look on my face.
He told me that the lady he'd talked to told him she'd never seen that particular trick before.
This particular story takes place back in the dark ages, when computers booted into DOS, and then you accessed Windows from there. At the time, I was just getting interested in the inner workings of computers, largely because I had a boyfriend at the time who was a pretty big geek. He taught me a trick wherein he could change his C: prompt to whatever he wanted it to say. I think he had it say something like "How can I serve you, Master?"
Anyway, this newfound skill of mine gave me an idea. One day, when my father was off doing something else, I snuck over to his laptop, fired it up, and changed his command prompt to read: "DRIVE C: FATAL ERROR. REFORMAT DRIVE C:? (Y/N)" or something of that sort. The idea was that he'd turn on his computer, have a really big scare, call me in to fix it, and I'd reveal the prank and we'd both have a good laugh, and he'd be impressed with my computer genius.
Unfortunately, that's not how it turned out. Instead, my father decided that this problem was too ugly to entrust to his daughter, and so, without alerting me, he called tech support.
Apparantly, it took a long time before she figured out what I'd done. Fortunately, my dad's not an SC, so everyone had a pretty good laugh. (Knowing my dad, he probably flirted with her, though.) Afterwards, he tracked me down and pranked me back, by pretending that he'd called tech support and they'd really made him reformat his C: drive. I about had a heart attack until he started laughing at the look on my face.
He told me that the lady he'd talked to told him she'd never seen that particular trick before.