What's the most "BOFH-ey" thing you've done?

M0KUJ1N · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:09

In light of the other thread, it had me asking this very question. What you did and why you did it. To get the ball rolling, Ill go first:

I noticed that a desktop machine was getting an IP conflict. It turned out that someone had brought a machine in and connected it to the network without telling us, and has set the machine up statically and pinched this other machines IP!

So I cracked the Admin password, changed it to one of our standard "12 character, combination of letters, numbers and symbols" passwords, removed the user's own account from the Administrator groups and disabled the network card in Device Manager. Then, waited

The reasoning for this is we cannot allow any Tom, Dick and Harry putting unpatched and unknown machines on the network. Especially when they do it WITHOUT consulting us and STEALING the IP address of a legitimate machine! I think he learned his lesson

Le_Petit_Lapin · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:15

What's the most "BOFH-ey" thing you've done?

You what?

Arcade Fire · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:18

You are so cool.

Gilly · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:19

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
You what?

******** operator from hell

jhmaeng · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:19

Wiggis · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:19

its a column on a certain technology news site.

Very funny, I suggest you check it out

fatty1 · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:21

Niiiice has the person come to ask about it yet??

Visage · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:26

M0KUJ1N said:
In light of the other thread, it had me asking this very question. What you did and why you did it. To get the ball rolling, Ill go first:

I noticed that a desktop machine was getting an IP conflict. It turned out that someone had brought a machine in and connected it to the network without telling us, and has set the machine up statically and pinched this other machines IP!

So I cracked the Admin password, changed it to one of our standard "12 character, combination of letters, numbers and symbols" passwords, removed the user's own account from the Administrator groups and disabled the network card in Device Manager. Then, waited

The reasoning for this is we cannot allow any Tom, Dick and Harry putting unpatched and unknown machines on the network. Especially when they do it WITHOUT consulting us and STEALING the IP address of a legitimate machine! I think he learned his lesson

Wow!

You're , like, so cool. I'll bet you have a LOT of bedroom action. You're like Batman, but with an amusing range of 'comedy' tshirts.

Tru · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:29

BOFH would never boast about his exploits on the internet.

Baz · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:29

Not done anything BOFH'y as yet, tempted a few times.. especially the extorsion out of the boss parts

I like you idea of the IP conflict resolvement, but I would have had more satisfaction in getting the guy sacked, as that would be a breach of nearly all companies IT policy.

Siliconslave · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:30

it was more as a joke really, but this aussie mate came and worked next to the IT dept for a while so while he was off on lunch i hid about 14 copys of "tie my kangeroo down sport" wav files around his system in different names and set loads of the windows sounds, random program sounds, alarms, system events etc etc to play it, after about a week he though he'd got rid of them all, little did he know

also changed one of the other techies entire mp3 collection to shania twain, while preserving all the filenames and id3 tags of his old songs, but that was cause he'd cut a load of holes in my water bottle so it went all over me when i drank and i looked like i'd wet myself for the rest of the afternoon.

oh happy days

oh and i set some right Git's windows install to be Australian so one key was weird and the daylight savings time kicked in randomly!

iCraig · 13 Apr 2006 at 14:32

M0KUJ1N said:
In light of the other thread, it had me asking this very question. What you did and why you did it. To get the ball rolling, Ill go first:

I noticed that a desktop machine was getting an IP conflict. It turned out that someone had brought a machine in and connected it to the network without telling us, and has set the machine up statically and pinched this other machines IP!

LOL!

M0KUJ1N said:
So I cracked the Admin password, changed it to one of our standard "12 character, combination of letters, numbers and symbols" passwords, removed the user's own account from the Administrator groups and disabled the network card in Device Manager. Then, waited

DOUBBLE LOL!

M0KUJ1N said:
The reasoning for this is we cannot allow any Tom, Dick and Harry putting unpatched and unknown machines on the network. Especially when they do it WITHOUT consulting us and STEALING the IP address of a legitimate machine! I think he learned his lesson

TWIPPLE LOL!!!

Flibster · 13 Apr 2006 at 15:04

I can't comment...They haven't realised yet.

Still - their time will come.

Simon/~Flibster

Mr Man · 13 Apr 2006 at 15:40

When a collegue of mine went on holiday we striped out the hard drive, and put in some old small drive we had and loaded windows 3.11 on it for him, was a nice surprise for him on his return

Mat · 13 Apr 2006 at 15:43

My colleague put OSX on another colleague's Dell as a leaving gag.

Hilarity ensued.

Dave M · 13 Apr 2006 at 16:53

This is why I don't tell people I work with computers.

Velocity · 13 Apr 2006 at 16:55

Telescopi said:
This is why I don't tell people I work with computers.

LOL

Kona* · 13 Apr 2006 at 17:16

Only thing we have done in the office is cover one of our director's desk's with wrapping paper for his birthday with the present hidden somewhere inside it all...

Mat said:
My colleague put OSX on another colleague's Dell as a leaving gag.

Hilarity ensued.

OSX dosent run on non-apple hardware? (Edit: Legally)

Craig