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In 10th grade, we had some security software on our computers in high school called 'Fortress' (circa 1998). I had a multi-media project due for a class that I
by eof 16y ago
In 10th grade, we had some security software on our computers in high school called 'Fortress' (circa 1998). I had a multi-media project due for a class that I never did. I compiled eofspresentation.exe in VB that did one thing:
Popped up a dialog, "Cannot run due to security"
- jasonjei 16y agoDid you ever get a grade?
- eof 16y agoYeah an A
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoReminds me of grabbing a random .dll, renaming it to .doc, putting it on a floppy disk and handing it in, all to gain myself a few extra days to finish my assignment.
- threepointone 16y agoI did a smililar thing for my final year mid year thesis review - took a pdf, opened it up in wordpad (!), cut out chunks of it, saved it, and submitted it. Got 2 weeks extra, nabbed an A myself. ... not sure if I should have said this in public, but I remember being strangely proud for having bent the system a bit :)
- thebigshane 16y agoKids these days don't need to go through all that trouble anymore... http://www.corrupted-files.com/Word.html http://www.corrupted-files.com/Word.html "We offer a wide array of corrupted Word files that are guaranteed not to open on a Mac or PC. A corrupted file is a file that contains scrambled and unrecoverable data due to hardware or software failure. Files may become corrupted when something goes wrong while a file is being saved e.g. the program saving the file might crash. Files may also become corrupted when being sent via email. The perfect excuse to buy you that extra time!"