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Pranked: Could your office cube be next?

By: Anthony SullivanMaybe it's a coincidence or maybe ist something written in to the DNA of those who are destined to work in cubicles, but it seems that no office is short of michievious pranksters looking for there next mark.Check out these photos of some great pranks that people have...

Tags: Biotechnology, prankster, cubicle, coincidence, DNA, photograph

Image galleries 2007-05-11

Photos: April Fools' prank at Sun

Sun pranksters installed a mock "EcoBox" executive suite at the campus.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., prankster, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-04

Office and computer pranks

What better way to welcome back coworkers from an extended vacation than an amusing practical joke? Whether you enjoy the simple elegance of filling someone's cubical with balloons, appreciate the effort required to cover an office with tin foil, or the comedic brilliance of growing grass on a keyboard, this...

Tags: foil, prankster, balloon, grass, shoulder, coworker, joke, keyboard, Microsoft Office, photograph, computer

Image galleries 2006-08-21

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Eets (exe)

Eets is a combination of Lemmings and The Incredible Machine. It is easy to pick up, and features tons of unique, crazy characters. Prankster Whales, Superpigs, and Radioactive Ginseng. Our puzzles are easy to play, but hard to master. We've got over 100 puzzles built-in, with enough for every type...

Tags: Klei Entertainment, Eets

Software downloads 2008-03-04

Eets (exe)

Eets is an emotional creature. Strolling around on a Sunday afternoon, Eets gobbles up unsuspecting marshmallow buds, chocolate chips, and other poor saps. All the while Eets' emotion swings by the whim of its taste buds. Eets is also afraid of the dark, startled by loud sounds, gets annoyed when...

Tags: Creature, Eets, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking

Software downloads 2006-07-31

Keyboard isn't showing that i hit the right key

My friend and i were talking on msn when his letters turned into numbers or the wrong letter. for example, his "l" was a "3"...he's on a laptop computer and he's terrible with computers, i'm not real great, but if someone could please help with this problem?sounds like a trojanor...

Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, jeffreyscyler@..., keyboard, Num Lock

Discussion threads 2007-06-08

Prankster in Office

Hope someone can help! For the last 2 years, we have had someone deliberately moving/deleting files on the shared network. We run on Windows 2000, and have tried to catch the culprit using the built-in audit facility. It was useless; it shows who creates and deletes, but not moves. Is...

Tags: audit, conways@..., culprit, Microsoft Office, security

Discussion threads 2004-11-30

Geek Trivia: Cents of humor

Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Geeks and non-geeks alike have long recognized Google as theundisputed king of Internet search engines. But true technophiles regard thesearch authority as one of the few remaining holdouts of the all-but-extinctdot-com culture.Google employees are still the...

Tags: Google Inc., humor, Jay Garmon, job

Technical articles 2004-06-01

Are you an office prankster? (Office and computer pranks)

Are you an office prankster? Office and computer pranksarticle rootCovered in...Yesterday my friend Marci told me about how her boss who has an unprintable nickname mentioned something about wanting to see Bon Jovi. The next day his office was covered in Bon Jovi pictures - old, new, screensaver, desktop wallpaper,...

Tags: bon jovi, bosses, computer, hardware, Leee, Microsoft Office, MIS, office, pranks, screensaver, telephone

Discussion threads 2006-08-23

Validating form input in Perl with CGI::Validate

Consider a simple Webform that asks users for their age and e-mail address, then saves the data intoa database when they submit the form. Most genuine users will enter correctdata in these fields, it will go to your database, and everything will be hunky-dory.But a single malicious user or prankster...

Tags: E-mail, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Guest Contributor, CGI::Validate, Perl, data type

Technical articles 2004-07-15

Geek Trivia: A lighter moment

Who created the first formal proposal for a Daylight Saving Time plan? Editor's note: The Trivia Geek is off on one of his unexpected sabbaticals (probably "celebrating" the fourth birthday of Windows XP), but he did remember to supply this slightly modified Classic Geek, which originally ran on March...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Benjamin Franklin, Daylight Saving Time, essay, Geek Trivia Newsletter

Technical articles 2005-10-25

Malformed IP addresses can bypass IE security

A newly revealed IE 5.x flaw can allow an IP address to appear to be internal to a network and bypass some IE security restrictions. Locksmith has details on this and two other IE flaws, as well as info on the affected products and a link to the fix.Internet Explorer...

Tags: Web browsers, IP address, IP, John McCormick, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intranet, flaw, security, Microsoft Corp.

Technical articles 2001-10-22

A look at CrAzY bosses, past and present

Nominations for the CrAzY boss Hall of FameI know almost everyone has had a boss in their past or present with at least one screw loose. Tell us why he or she is worthy of the CrAzY boss Hall of Fame.Print my emailFor a *very* brief period, I had a...

Tags: Sonja Thompson, fax, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

Geek Trivia: A CEO by any other name

What famous college-dropout-turned-Silicon-Valley-millionaire completed college under an alias? According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has recently adjusted its notoriously laborious and demanding hiring process because it can't seem to find enough Ivy League-educated Ph.D.s looking to work for a search engine. But that's probably a...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jay Garmon, Bill Gates, Harvard University, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Steve Wozniak, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

Technical articles 2006-11-07