Ways to Annoy People in a Computer Lab

Was doing some googling and stumbled on this. Enjoy!

40 Ways to Piss Off People in a Computer Lab

Extremely strange Windows promo

It’s for Windows 386, I think the video’s from 1988. Either way, it’s incredibly weird and a little painful to watch. Everyone I showed it to agreed.

The first part is boring, to get to the interesting part skip ahead to 7:00.

Lolcat Generator

Just ’cause it’s easier than using a graphic editor.

Lolcat Generator: Can haz posters?

Tip of the Day.

Never kill a fly when it is sitting on your monitor. As of now, I have squashed fly guts all over my screen. Yuck!

Software CAN damage hardware.

At least it used to be able to, as demonstrated by this article:

This got the attention of the manager, who came out and said they’d honor the warranty and fix his machine if the kid would stop blowing up all the IBM 5155 monitors in the store.

Some of my computer stupidities

Some of the most embarassing:

1) One time I was trying to boot from a Knoppix CD, but it didn’t work (despite the boot order being CD-first.) When I opened up the drive, I found out I was trying to boot up from a Tom Petty CD (Full Moon Fever, to be exact.)

2) One time at school, the monitor was stuck in power-save mode. I tried turning it on and off several times and checking the cable connections when the student beside me noted the computer wasn’t turned on.

3) One time I forgot to set the compression settings in VirtualDub and ended up with a 15-gig file for a 10-minute, low-quality video.

4) Tried to burn a CD before putting anything on it.

5) Wondered why my HDD was filling up. Realized I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin (which was filled with a bunch of DVD VOB files, which get huge.)

6) Accidentally killed my DVD drive. I saw it in Safely Remove Hardware and I removed it to see what would happen. Came back on reboot.

Oh crap.

Accidentally dumped a ZIP archive (SimCity Classic, if you’re really curious) onto my desktop. While trying to drag them all to the recycle bin, I missed by half an inch and they all duplicated themselves:

Sick of EULAs?

Then have your cat agree to them!

Another Oops

Playing a cheap-o horse game (Championship Horse Trainer) and I got thrown by the horse during training. Then the farm owner decides he wants to breed my horse:

Oops.

Not quite sure how THIS happened….

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