Well, I've been quite free in the last 24 hrs, and will be for the next 24. So, I'm thinking of pranks through programs [mmmmuuuuuuuaaahhhhhaahha...].<p>Give me some pranks!
I write a lot of little vb.net applications for troubleshooting/repairing software for our helpdesk. Sometimes if I'm writing something that only 1 specific person is going to use I'll do something like every 3 days set their homepage to that david hasslehoff speedo gif that zooms in on his crotch over and over. Totally inappropriate at work, but I get a chuckle out of it. Since it only happens every three days they haven't figured out what's causing it.
My job as a student involved working in an IT office, and we had a policy of "always lock your screen". Those who didn't got creative pranks put on their computer. Only rules were no root level pranks and it had to be SFW.<p>Some of them I can remember<p>- Randomly eject CD drive. This was done in various formats like a background script running, aliased commands, etc.<p>- Alias 2 commands to each other (e.g. switch ls and cd)<p>- Switch key bindings<p>- Wallpaper switching<p>- Screensaver switching
Not really a prank, but a while ago my group of friends thought that the smiley with a nose ( :^) ) was really weird and creepy in casual conversation (we never use smileys).<p>So naturally I wrote a twitter bot that finds all normal smileys and adds the nose.
I don't know if it's funny but I once added a "This image is not required" in the alt text of the image. The src pointed to a non existent image. Haven't seen anyone else laugh at this but myself :)