• me (unregistered)

    I ate the apple frist!

  • (cs)

    Now I'm trying to think of something to say that isn't "frist" or something of the sort, but, um, this isn't really a WTF, is it? We've all done this sort of thing in our time, and even beyond high school or your national equivalent.

  • anon (unregistered)

    So TRWTF was this shitty, pointless story making TDWTF?

  • Bart Glamstrom (unregistered)

    I saw it first

  • A tumbleweed (unregistered)

    Don't mind me, just rolling through here.

  • ProfessorTom (unregistered)

    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    So TRWTF was this shitty, pointless story making TDWTF?
    No; TRWTF is Apple. Not sure why though...
  • (cs) in reply to ProfessorTom
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.
    What is *NIX?
  • MuTaTeD (unregistered) in reply to ProfessorTom
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    Here comes the fanbois and trolls Let the Flame Wars Begin

  • Alargule (unregistered)

    You're comparing Apples and Oranges here.

  • (cs)

    Remember kids, if you're going to be a 1337 haxor, don't record your own voice for a hack announcement. Get the hobo down the street to provide your recording.

  • Silverwizard (unregistered)

    It's a Bill Code to hate Macintosh, of course.

    At the same time - it seems to me that the main problem here is that the teacher let him delete what looked like system files without noticing.

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to Alargule
    Alargule:
    You're comparing Apples and Oranges here.

    They were all invented long ago by the Greec

  • Ashish (unregistered)
    <meta>This sentence is here just to let Akismet know that THIS IS NOT A SPAM!</meta>

    Booooooo!!!

  • keith (unregistered) in reply to ProfessorTom
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    Hey professor, 1990 called and the buyers of Macintosh LC's would like to know what a *NIX underpinning is, and what it has to do with Mac OS 7.

  • (cs) in reply to ProfessorTom
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    I knew it wouldn't be long before one of these guys showed up.

    Also, I very much doubt the LC was built on Unix, but I could be wrong.

  • QJ (unregistered)

    (Self-deprecating smile) I can't find my way around forums, apparently. I can't figure out how to submit a comment.

  • Professor (unregistered) in reply to keith
    keith:
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    Hey professor, 1990 called and the buyers of Macintosh LC's would like to know what a *NIX underpinning is, and what it has to do with Mac OS 7.

    Can you take a message? I'm on the phone with 1991 trying to figure out why you're stealing his jokes.

  • (cs)

    document.write(document.getElementByID('wtf'));

    NULL REFERENCE EXCEPTION

  • Bill (unregistered)

    This story sucked. I always look forward to Featured Articles, but sh**, come on. This was boring and predictable.

    CAPTCHA: lego

    • The pieces used to build a better story.
  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    So TRWTF was this shitty, pointless story making TDWTF?

    x2

  • Brian (unregistered)

    Technically, he did have complete control over the computer at the time that he "hacked" it.

  • Sobriquet (unregistered) in reply to keith
    keith:
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    Hey professor, 1990 called and the buyers of Macintosh LC's would like to know what a *NIX underpinning is, and what it has to do with Mac OS 7.

    Obviously it was running A/UX.

  • M. Night Shyamalan (unregistered)

    I could have written a better ending myself.

  • Troy (unregistered) in reply to Professor
  • (cs)

    Really Bill, don't be such a wuss. I was suspended no less than 10 times, and they still let me into community college.

  • Darth Paula (unregistered)

    TRWTF is high school????

  • Bryan the K (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that I just wasted a few minutes of my life reading that garbage.

  • Sobriquet (unregistered) in reply to Bill
    Bill:
    This story sucked. I always look forward to Featured Articles, but sh**, come on. This was boring and predictable.

    I've got to admit, I never expected the surprise ending of "and then nothing happened."

  • (cs) in reply to keith
    keith:
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.

    Hey professor, 1990 called and the buyers of Macintosh LC's would like to know what a *NIX underpinning is, and what it has to do with Mac OS 7.

    Did you tell them about 9/11? Haiti? Katrina?

  • Crabs (unregistered)

    I guess I could tell a story about high school where something actually happened. And to think this was probably editorialized...

    I was a senior in high school, had all the good grades, and was in a Cisco sponsored networking class (and had enrolled in it for the better part of 3 years). Since we were all seniors, the teacher taught 2 separate classes this period: 2 seniors who sat in the back room and played with routers for an hour (or played Team Fortress Classic. Or Snood. She didn't really care by the third year), and a freshman "Here's how to use Word and Powerpoint" class.

    So, one day the administration lets us know that they were upgrading the network. Stern warnings were issued for all students and teachers to not ever touch a computer, lest we make routers explode or something. As a third year Cisco networking student, I was fairly sure that this was complete shit, and what they really meant that they didn't want to take any troubleshooting calls for not being able to use the internet.

    So I came in Monday, the first day of this ban on all things computer, to my cisco class. I sat down at my normal spot, and turned on my computer, because I was really trying to beat my high score at Snood at this point. Just to please the networking gods and to not make any routers explode (actually, just to avoid sending network traffic, and possibly confusing someone), I unplugged the cat-5 from the back of my workstation, turned it on, and started messing around. The other dude read a book.

    Well, this would have been no problem had my normal teacher been there. She would have said "did you unplug the network cable?" and been done with it. But I didn't notice there was a substitute who had no idea why there were 2 seniors in her back room. Long explanation short, she calls the administration down, and I get brought to the front office, and my father is called. I got suspended for 3 days for "premeditated insubordination". You see, it was premeditated, because I unplugged the network cable. Makes perfect sense, right?

    My parents were less mad then I expected. I found out years later that my dad came in fuming, and the secretary said "don't be mad at him, he didn't do anything bad". I guess he took that to heart, but all I had to do was cut down a huge bush in our backyard that was way overgrown. That took me about 3 days.

    I came back 3 days later. My Cisco teacher just laughed and shook her head. I found out my other teachers actually fought for me to get unsuspended, citing to the vice principal that suspended me that, and I'm not trying to be pompous, "you just suspended him for being smarter than you" and "any of us that knew anything about computers did the exact same thing". I always liked those teachers.

    Anyway, still got good grades, still graduated with honors, still went to college, still got a good job. Just goes to show you that it's not the end of the world.

  • grzlbrmft (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    ProfessorTom:
    So really, the WTF is why "Bill" hates Macintoshes, when they are designed to be VERY user friendly yet very powerful as they have a *NIX underpinning.
    What is *NIX?
    The Latin word for *SNOW?
  • asdf (unregistered) in reply to Troy
    Troy:

    2017 called, but I couldn't understand what they were saying over all the screams...

  • David Wright (unregistered)

    You guys had it easy. We didn't have Macs when I was at school. In fact there weren't any computers in schools in those days. So we had to do SCIENCE instead.

    My OMG WTF HAVE I DONE was filling the advanced chemistry lab with cyanide gas when an (unauthorised) experiment went wrong.

    Fortunately I recognised what I'd done before I breathed in much, and was able to clear it without a) killing myself, b) killing anyone else, or c) getting caught.

  • Your Name (unregistered)

    When I was in high school, I tried to keep things subtle. The computer labs were full of Windows 95 or 98 or whatever machines that were locked down by this crappy third-party program called "Fortres". Yes, spelled with one "S".

    Anyway, I was one of like three people in the school who knew how to work a damn computer, and let's just say I'm not counting the school's IT guy. Eventually one of us figured out that he left the administrator password as "admin" or something similarly retarded.

    Anyway, the other guys were pulling a few joke-type pranks, but I decided, instead, to remove this "Fortres" crap so thoroughly that you couldn't tell it had ever been on there in the first place. The thing didn't exactly have an uninstaller, but eventually I figured out the combination of files, registry keys, and AUTOEXEC.BAT and WIN.INI lines (remember that shit?) that needed to be exorcised and had a few computers liberated.

    The IT guy never did figure out that his "secure" password was leaked. He ended up replacing the computers. No kidding.

  • (cs) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    keith:

    Hey professor, 1990 called and the buyers of Macintosh LC's would like to know what a *NIX underpinning is, and what it has to do with Mac OS 7.

    Did you tell them about 9/11? Haiti? Katrina?

    I tried to, but 1990 doesn't care about black people.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Really Bill, don't be such a wuss. I was suspended no less than 10 times, and they still let me into community college.

    Frits, Have you heard of

    aggrandize

    1. To widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
    2. To make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor.
    3. To make (something) appear greater.

    Akismet, Are you making fun of me? I trying to make fun of frits, but you making my fun fireback on me.

    Alex, Did you put my username on miserable user list?

  • illtiz (unregistered)

    TRWTF is this cornify gizmo, right?

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh

    Deleted Post!!!!

  • Bheuk (unregistered)

    So basically, nothing happened? He did not even attempt to copy that teachers work? (might contain some tests)

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to asdf

    When the future calls geeks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVlIsUoQsjY

  • Bob the employed (unregistered)

    I did the same type of thing with many many computers in my old highschool, circa 1998. I installed custom windows startup files that were 100x better than the ones on the computers.

    Got called to the office, they said I would get 2 days of in school suspension and if I didn't fix the computers they would charge my parents $1000 to have some idiot come in and reformat them all. So I changed back the startup files and went on with my education.

    Still got in to my college of choice, this "permanent record" stuff is a big scam the schools try to play on you.

  • (cs)

    Sounds like the kinds of pranks we used to play in my high school comp sci class.

    But we never felt guilty about them.

  • Todd Lewis (unregistered) in reply to David Wright
    David Wright:
    You guys had it easy. We didn't have Macs when I was at school. In fact there weren't any computers in schools in those days.

    Showing my age here: What passed for pranks when I was in school was wandering through parking lots and [god help me] locking unlocked cars. Man, we were teh terrors!

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    So TRWTF is that someone was trying to use an Apple for some kind of genuine computing, instead of their intended purpose of making technically clueless hipsters feel cool? That's not much of a WTF, everyone's been guilty at one point or another of using totally the wrong tool for the job.

  • (cs) in reply to Silverwizard
    Silverwizard:
    ...it seems to me that the main problem here is that the teacher let him delete what looked like system files without noticing.
    You mean the teacher that didn't know how to turn the computer on? You don't say...
  • (cs) in reply to Silverwizard
    Silverwizard:
    It's a Bill Code to hate Macintosh, of course.

    At the same time - it seems to me that the main problem here is that the teacher let him delete what looked like system files without noticing.

    What I was expecting was: "After Bill swept the sound file into the trash and wiped his brow, Mr. Rosso smiled, leaned over to Bill's ear, and said, 'Next time, have someone else record the audio for you.'"

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Todd Lewis
    Todd Lewis:
    David Wright:
    You guys had it easy. We didn't have Macs when I was at school. In fact there weren't any computers in schools in those days.

    Showing my age here: What passed for pranks when I was in school was wandering through parking lots and [god help me] locking unlocked cars. Man, we were teh terrors!

    I once wrapped some powdered drain-marking dye in balls of tissue and spent a lesson throwing them out the window into the pond beneath. The entire thing turned bright red which was hilarious, but the sudden death of all the fish did not go down well with the teachers.

    Then there was the classic "set off the fire alarm at the end of term" prank. Only difference is that I lit smoke bombs on the fire escape, so everyone thought the school was geuinely burning and the exits were blocked. A lot of people thought they were going to die, one guy even jumped out a window and broke his ankle. It's a miracle there weren't more injuries.

    I never got caught for any of this stuff. The trick is to work alone, getting friends involved is a surefire way to get ratted out.

  • (cs)

    So... Bill played a prank on one of his teachers, tried to cover it up before anyone noticed, and thought that he had gotten away with it without anything bad happening.

    But then he wound up having a career in IT.

    I guess the last laugh really was on Bill.

  • QJ (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    I guess I could tell a story about high school where something actually happened. And to think this was probably editorialized...

    I was a senior in high school, had all the good grades, and was in a Cisco sponsored networking class (and had enrolled in it for the better part of 3 years). Since we were all seniors, the teacher taught 2 separate classes this period: 2 seniors who sat in the back room and played with routers for an hour (or played Team Fortress Classic. Or Snood. She didn't really care by the third year), and a freshman "Here's how to use Word and Powerpoint" class.

    So, one day the administration lets us know that they were upgrading the network. Stern warnings were issued for all students and teachers to not ever touch a computer, lest we make routers explode or something. As a third year Cisco networking student, I was fairly sure that this was complete shit, and what they really meant that they didn't want to take any troubleshooting calls for not being able to use the internet.

    So I came in Monday, the first day of this ban on all things computer, to my cisco class. I sat down at my normal spot, and turned on my computer, because I was really trying to beat my high score at Snood at this point. Just to please the networking gods and to not make any routers explode (actually, just to avoid sending network traffic, and possibly confusing someone), I unplugged the cat-5 from the back of my workstation, turned it on, and started messing around. The other dude read a book.

    Well, this would have been no problem had my normal teacher been there. She would have said "did you unplug the network cable?" and been done with it. But I didn't notice there was a substitute who had no idea why there were 2 seniors in her back room. Long explanation short, she calls the administration down, and I get brought to the front office, and my father is called. I got suspended for 3 days for "premeditated insubordination". You see, it was premeditated, because I unplugged the network cable. Makes perfect sense, right?

    My parents were less mad then I expected. I found out years later that my dad came in fuming, and the secretary said "don't be mad at him, he didn't do anything bad". I guess he took that to heart, but all I had to do was cut down a huge bush in our backyard that was way overgrown. That took me about 3 days.

    I came back 3 days later. My Cisco teacher just laughed and shook her head. I found out my other teachers actually fought for me to get unsuspended, citing to the vice principal that suspended me that, and I'm not trying to be pompous, "you just suspended him for being smarter than you" and "any of us that knew anything about computers did the exact same thing". I always liked those teachers.

    Anyway, still got good grades, still graduated with honors, still went to college, still got a good job. Just goes to show you that it's not the end of the world.

    So there was a teacher who "had no idea why there were 2 seniors in her back room." So it's like: "Hi, I'm a substitute teacher, I don't know who you are, I haven't bothered to ask, I'm not very clever but that's not why I'm a teacher, I'm a teacher because I'm a fascistic bully who loves terrorising kids." Yep, been there, done that.

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