[coolmacdude]

I found an interesting trick poking around in the System folder. You can alter the appearance of the info box to make it appear that you are running OS X Server. Or if you really are you can change it to look like OS X client.
Pic Here

To do so, open system/library/coreservices and look for a file called loginwindow. Look inside this package in Contents/Resources. You will see two files, AboutBox.tiff, and AboutServerBox.tiff. To perform the hack, just swap the names of these two files and then logout (note that you'll need to give yourself root permissions or change the files permissions to do this).

[ambush]

nm man

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by coolmacdude:
I found an interesting trick poking around in the System folder. You can alter the appearance of the info box to make it appear that you are running OS X Server. Or if you really are you can change it to look like OS X client.
Pic Here

To do so, open system/library/coreservices and look for a file called loginwindow. Look inside this package in Contents/Resources. You will see two files, AboutBox.tiff, and AboutServerBox.tiff. To perform the hack, just swap the names of these two files and then logout (note that you'll need to give yourself root permissions or change the files permissions to do this).

This is the same as Lying.
You will go to hell.

[dillerX]

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
This is the same as Lying.
You will go to hell.

You must believe in hell first.

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by dillerX:
You must believe in hell first.

Good point.

Yay im free!

[CharlesS]

If you have access to a machine where the user is using auto-login, here's a prank you can do. Get on their computer, and turn off the Finder option to show hard disks on the Desktop. Then, make an AppleScript that goes like this:

Code:
tell application "Finder"
    shut down
end tell

Save the script as an application, give it the name of their hard disk, paste the hard disk's icon on it, put it in the spot where the hard disk would appear on the desktop, wait for hapless user to show up.

This can make a pretty effective argument to convince them to use the multiple users feature.

Mwa ha ha ha...

[Appleman]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
If you have access to a machine where the user is using auto-login, here's a prank you can do. Get on their computer, and turn off the Finder option to show hard disks on the Desktop. Then, make an AppleScript that goes like this:

Code:
tell application "Finder"
    shut down
end tell

Save the script as an application, give it the name of their hard disk, paste the hard disk's icon on it, put it in the spot where the hard disk would appear on the desktop, wait for hapless user to show up.

This can make a pretty effective argument to convince them to use the multiple users feature.

Mwa ha ha ha...

Pretty evil, but fun

[Henriok]

Oooh.. You can also put that script in their login items!

[chris v]

How about a script that speaks the phrase "Good morning Dave, nice to see you again," when they log in? Harmless, and fun.

Any script gurus reading this morning?

CV

[nsxpower]

Code:
osascript -e 'set volume 10'
osascript -e 'say  "Any script gurus reading this morning?"'

[coolmacdude]

That, using Bubbles.

[eno]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
If you have access to a machine where the user is using auto-login, here's a prank you can do. Get on their computer, and turn off the Finder option to show hard disks on the Desktop. Then, make an AppleScript that goes like this:

Code:
tell application "Finder"
    shut down
end tell

Save the script as an application, give it the name of their hard disk, paste the hard disk's icon on it, put it in the spot where the hard disk would appear on the desktop, wait for hapless user to show up.

This can make a pretty effective argument to convince them to use the multiple users feature.

Mwa ha ha ha...

"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

[MindFad]

Originally posted by eno:
"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

Ahahahahaha.

[xi_hyperon]

Originally posted by eno:
"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

What's wrong... did you find yourself on the wrong end of an April fool's joke today or something?

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by eno:
"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

Sheesh... it's April 1st, if you hadn't noticed. You know, April Fools Day. A day when you are expected to play pranks on family members. There are many classic Mac pranks for this time of year, like the old "set a picture of the Trash can as the desktop pattern" trick on OS 9 and earlier.

You need to relax a little more.

[ambush]

Well I think you can start up w/o login items with a key combo...

[nobitacu]

Hmmm... intresting....


Ming

[gorickey]

I got my friend today by taking a picture of his desktop and placing it as his desktop picture...the only reason this worked is because he has his dock showing on the bottom of the screen, I instead used TinkerTool and had the dock placed on the top of the screen and hidden. Then using Finder prefs had all removable media not show on the desktop since it "looked like" the HD was there within the picture I took.

I've never seen so many restarts and "damn, my dock is frozen man...any ideas?"

I couldn't resist and told him a few minutes later...

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by eno:
"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

[andreas_g4]

One fool that works only with very unexperienced users but it's made in seconds: Screenshot, open it in PS, press the f-key two times, press tab, press "v" and voila.

I suppose all PS users know this. The advantage is that you can do it literally when the user is not looking for a second...

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by eno:
"Fun"?

More like illegal. This kind of tampering is neither funny nor appropriate.

Raaar! a store security guard has joined macnn!
Whats his IP address??