GazChap wrote:
Mr Dave wrote:
More fun was the command to remotely toggle the CD drives eject state.
I built a little program in VB6 that would sit and listen in the background for commands sent from a client program on another machine on the network.
Said client program was a music keyboard with computer keys labelled on them (a la OctaMED) and it would play the corresponding sound on the remote PC’s beeper.
I then added the ability to send RTTTL ringtones to it.
The confused looks on the students and teachers as some of the college machines started playing the Batman theme or Axel F despite no-one being sat at them was most amusing.
And it is for this kind of reason that all the computers had no speakers of any kind. Well, expect for the teachers/pupil in charge computer. Which my friend Doug found out by accidentally getting a little naked Saddam Hussein to shout of "SPANK MY NAKED ASS" repeatedly across the computer room. Which, unsurprisingly, attracted the attention of the entire room towards him.
It turns out the only way to stop this was by, indeed clicking on his running buttocks, at which point he proclaimed "Thanks, I was very naughty"
I almost died laughing.