» Cheating cheaty cheats

I once cheated during a uni exam
it's like this, I was told that the exam was comming, and I was unsure what to do at first, then I had this brilliant idea, and I have never been caught.

First of all, I bought lots of books on the subject, quite a few in fact, and now here's the clever bit, I started to read them! Yes I actually read the books.

I discovered this technique is very effective for cheating at exams, the trick is to memorise as much about the subject as you can, and the answers will be there in your heaad when you need them!
(Thu 17th Nov 2005, 10:40, More)

» Cheating cheaty cheats

I used to
edit duke nukem levels, and add "secret stashes" of weapons. They were useful, when I played a network game with my friend, as he did not know where to find them, and I always seemed to have plenty of ammo!

It was quite simple really, I used the build editor (ah, those were the days!) and edited each level. I would usually hide my room and put one of those "one-way" walls over the entrance, so that although the room was invisible, I could still see what was going on outside, I could even fire from in there, making it a good sniping position.

This went on for a few hours, until one of the times I was hiding in my secret room, when my friend came over and looked at my screen!!! He then found it! Can you believe it, he actually had the nerve to look at my screen! What a cheat.
(Thu 17th Nov 2005, 10:23, More)

» Well, that taught 'em

Makro Edinburgh
I used to work for a nasty retail chain in Scotland, the managers there always adopted the "I am much too important for this" attitude when dealing with the staff, and working conditions there were hell.

I had handed in my notice (I was fed up with the abuse from managers and customers) and on my last day, a few minutes before the end of my shift, I decided to get my revenge on those evil managers.

Every receipt printed there has a promotional message on it, usually some shit about special offers and such, I logged into a terminal (only one user name and password, everyone used) and accessed this data, I changed it so that every receipt had the words "The managers in Makro are Fucking Wankers"

It was hilarious, as apparently it took them three days to notice it, and hundreds of receipts had been printed, Imagine if you had just bought something from them, and noticed that printed on the receipt!
(Thu 26th Apr 2007, 18:55, More)

» Petty Sabotage

Printers
A few years ago back in college; the network server administrator password was leaked. It took the administrator a few days to notice this, just enough time for me to take advantage of it.

I spent a lot of time back then tinkering with visual C++, and I discovered how to send documents through the network to the printers, I discovered that I could print several documents at the same time, to the many networked printers in the college; with at least one laser printer in each room, and some rooms full of dot-matrix printers for the people working with program code listings, they were not quiet! Every now and then, during our lectures, you could hear the printers starting.

I created a small software application that could send documents to multiple printers at the same time, then later added a timer to it, so that it could print documents at certain dates and times. Using my new network "privileges" I downloaded a list of all the printers on the network, and then added it to my program.

I then logged into the network server, and uploaded my program; it was set to start at 11:07am the next day.

The next day, I went to college as normal, quietly anticipating 11:07, and my master plan, which I suppose, now that I think back to it, was quite immature.

At 11:07, almost on the dot, every printer in the college burst into life, and started printing page after page of "I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish." Imagine the noise of so many printers starting at the same time! Luckily, they never found out who did it, but the administrator mysteriously changed his password the same day. Hmmmm.

The college was quite cheap, and had a policy of not wasting paper, and my prank had printed hundreds of pages, so the paper was put back into the printers for re-use. For weeks after that, whenever we printed something, it would have " I am a fish. I am a fish. I am a fish." written on the back!
(Thu 5th May 2005, 20:52, More)

» Pointless Experiments

Here it is:


Conclusion? Gravity pulls stuff down!
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 14:47, More)