Experiences with non-techies

[DigitalHermit]

I plugged a Raspbery Pi into a display at my college and a rather illiterate teacher came along and unplugged it, as well as accusing me of hacking. She thinks being plugged into the AC socket means I'm on the "school network".

 

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand....

 

I lost faith in humanity :mellow: 

 

 

this is gold, the absolute in ignorance. 

 

'Oooo, theres a cable from this non-iphone device, must be a hacker.' lol

 

I remember the days back in high school when we still used floppies... I brought a 1st gen USB flash drive loaded with a tiny batch script that would say

Hacking tool loading...DONE!Press any key to continue.Hacking in progress...

Everyone freaked out... (it's just a bunch of echo statements)

[Joshndroid]

I remember the days back in high school when we still used floppies... I brought a 1st gen USB flash drive loaded with a tiny batch script that would say

Hacking tool loading...DONE!Press any key to continue.Hacking in progress...

Everyone freaked out... (it's just a bunch of echo statements)

 

i would say even today people would freak out. the general public likes to think they are tech savy but most of them still are not.

[Ceatra]

i would say even today people would freak out. the general public likes to think they are tech savy but most of them still are not.

People that think 3G/4G mean 3/4 Gigabytes -.-

[burnttoastnice]

People that think 3G/4G mean 3/4 Gigabytes -.-

 

THIS. Them dodgy tablet and phone distributors on Amazon and Ebay that use 3G and 4G on their products to describe how many gigabytes of storage it has >.>

[Speedbird]

THIS. Them dodgy tablet and phone distributors on Amazon and Ebay that use 3G and 4G on their products to describe how many gigabytes of storage it has >.>

So my phone is 16G? Niiiiiiiiiiiice

[carguy86]

my steph sister thinks WiFi = Wireless internet Faster internet

[lol1290]

So I opened this simple ''Matrix'' (.bat) program in school, that I wrote, and EVERYBODY was like: HE IS HACKING!!!!

 

Just copy this into notepad, save it, and than change the file from .txt into .bat

 

@Echo off


color 02

:start

echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

goto start

[Ceatra]

So I opened this simple ''Matrix'' (.bat) program in school, that I wrote, and EVERYBODY was like: HE IS HACKING!!!!

 

Just copy this into notepad, save it, and than change the file from .txt into .bat

 

@Echo off

color 02

:start

echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

goto start

Dayum

 

need to do that

[lol1290]

Dayum

 

need to do that

 

Good luck!

[Guest]

So I opened this simple ''Matrix'' (.bat) program in school, that I wrote, and EVERYBODY was like: HE IS HACKING!!!!

 

Just copy this into notepad, save it, and than change the file from .txt into .bat

 

@Echo off

color 02

:start

echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

goto start

my favourite one is

 

@Echo off

 :loop

 

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

 

 

goto loop

 

 

 

EDIT: save your work before you do this on your computer

[Joshndroid]

snip

 

 

snip

 

you cheeky buggers haha.

[Mattrixx]

 

So I opened this simple ''Matrix'' (.bat) program in school, that I wrote, and EVERYBODY was like: HE IS HACKING!!!!

 

Just copy this into notepad, save it, and than change the file from .txt into .bat

-snip batch file-

Matrix? I have been summoned!

#Hacks #NeoRocks #EdwardSnowdenIsGreatForRevealingThatTheGuv'mintSpy-HacksOnUsPoorHumansEvenThoughWeReallyShouldntHaveBeenAllThatSurprised

 

Yes, yes, I know it's lame. And yes, I'm sure I am lame too. I've long come to terms with it.   Join me, and we will rule the galaxy as lame father and lame son.

Very relevant

.

[Zeruel]

So a kid just bought his $700 dollar PC from his younger brother who made it and installed Windows 7 32 bit on it.

 

The PC...

 

Asus M5A99FX mobo, NVIDIA gtx570 graphics card, AMD 6 core CPU over clocked @ 4.2ghz, 8gbs DDR3 RAM, 500 GB hard drive, optical drive, 750w PSU

 

 

My PC that I could of made for him...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($186.98 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($70.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Team Dark 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($38.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($51.99 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card  ($201.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($42.98 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $648.89

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-15 23:02 EDT-0400

[WkdPaul]

*snip*

wait what???

All that and then a 32bits OS with 8GB of RAM????

lol ... Seriously?

[Zeruel]

wait what???

All that and then a 32bits OS with 8GB of RAM????

lol ... Seriously?

 

Yep lol

[Fgtfv567]

Yep lol

Does Windows only use 4 instead of 8 gigs on a 32 bit OS

[lol1290]

my favourite one is

 

@Echo off

 :loop

 

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

 

 

goto loop

 

 

 

EDIT: save your work before you do this on your computer

 

So I copied that and save it into .bat file and I wanted to see what exactly would it do... so I opened it...

 

AND IT COMPLETELY FUC*ED UP MY COMPUTER!

 

 

 

 

It was quite funny actually.

[Speedbird]

Does Windows only use 4 instead of 8 gigs on a 32 bit OS

It depends. Sometimes it uses 4, sometimes 3.5, sometimes even less. But never more than 4.

[Holford]

When I was a teenager, growing up in a town in the English county of Kent, I was surrounded by a large number of people who exceeded the age of 60. As such, and as I was already known amongst my parents' friends as, "their IT support", I put my name & number in the local newspaper as a computer repair person.

 

I did a few jobs for a few people over the summer. Nothing overtly exciting (odd RAM upgrade, or minor data recovery). Then one day, I get called in by a guy who bought his elderly mother a PC, so she could email him as he was travelling a lot for work that summer, and he was leaving his 13 year old son with her.

 

So I turn up, check out the PC and see that it's performance is AWFUL! I load up the web browser, and the homepage is an asian pharmaceuticals website, and there are about 10 random 'browser bars'... Okay. So I crack out my anti-virus suite, see it's flagged a bunch of files in the Documents folder, go to check it out. I find a huge repository of WMV Low Res downloaded Hentai Tentacle Porn...

 

Right. I erase it, wipe the system, restore critical files and programs after passing them through my anti-virus suite's quarantine, and say no charge to the old lady.

 

A week or so later, I get a phone call from the guy who called me in the first place, saying thank you and asking what the issue was...

 

"Oh... It was just a bunch of viruses that got onto the system, and some random bloatware slowing performance. Don't worry, I've removed them now, and done a clean install", I tell him.

 

"But how did they get on there?", he asks.

 

"..."

 

"Did my mother open a spam message, or something?"

 

"..."

 

"..."

 

"You should talk to your son about his taste in movies"

 

I hang up.

[Guest]

So I copied that and save it into .bat file and I wanted to see what exactly would it do... so I opened it...

 

AND IT COMPLETELY FUC*ED UP MY COMPUTER!

 

 

 

 

It was quite funny actually.

Don't tell me I didn't warn you. Putting it on to someone else's computer and running it is pretty funny too.

[Speedbird]

Don't tell me I didn't warn you. Putting it on to someone else's computer and running it is pretty funny too.

Yeah, not for the one using the computer though. I made the mistake of letting you TeamViewer into my computer. Ended up in me having to hit the reset switch.

[Guest]

Yeah, not for the one using the computer though. I made the mistake of letting you TeamViewer into my computer. Ended up in me having to hit the reset switch.

That was pretty funny...

[nekomata]

my favourite one is

 

@Echo off

 :loop

 

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

 

 

goto loop

 

 

 

EDIT: save your work before you do this on your computer

I will use it on my campus' computer and have it autorun.

[WkdPaul]

I will use it on my campus' computer and have it autorun.

haha that's evil!!!! We use to do something similar when I was in college, new account had this generic "welcome" password, all we had to do was find the name of new users, when we found one we would log into it and add a script that would load tons of local videos and tons of explorer windows at startup! lol

[lol1290]

Don't tell me I didn't warn you. Putting it on to someone else's computer and running it is pretty funny too.

Do you know what to add before the script, that it would make it run every time when windows starts? That would be funny.