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Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an outlook draft. AT my current job I could probably get away with playing a MUD, I'm in AS400 terminal windows all day so I could sit there with CMUD on a monitor and no one would have a clue unless they came up and actually read the window (Edit: and actually when I first started here sometimes I'd open a CMD and watch telnet Star Wars).

riku_iki 7y ago
Having HN posts + comments in excel would be awesome too.
reaperducer 7y ago
I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet. Can anyone remember any of them?
- shoes_for_thee 7y ago
  leisure suit larry, for one. being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.
- Deimorz 7y ago
  I don't know how complete it is, but there's a list on MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/offset,0/so,1a/ https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/off...
- MiddleEndian 7y ago
  It came out in 2006 but Defcon had a similar feature, as well as status updates in the system tray so you'd be able to follow some of what was going on even when it wasn't active.
bluedino 7y ago
By using green instead of white as a termainl color, you can do almost anything (Lynx, MUD, IRC...) and people think it's an AS400 window.
hyencomper 7y ago
Reminds me of http://hackertyper.com/ http://hackertyper.com/ where you can pretend to program if someone comes around.
- duiker101 7y ago
  Please note, .net is the real original hacker typer without ads I made a long time ago

riku_iki 7y ago

Having HN posts + comments in excel would be awesome too.

reaperducer 7y ago

I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet. Can anyone remember any of them?

shoes_for_thee 7y ago
leisure suit larry, for one. being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.
Deimorz 7y ago
I don't know how complete it is, but there's a list on MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/offset,0/so,1a/ https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/off...
MiddleEndian 7y ago
It came out in 2006 but Defcon had a similar feature, as well as status updates in the system tray so you'd be able to follow some of what was going on even when it wasn't active.

bluedino 7y ago

By using green instead of white as a termainl color, you can do almost anything (Lynx, MUD, IRC...) and people think it's an AS400 window.

hyencomper 7y ago

Reminds me of http://hackertyper.com/ http://hackertyper.com/ where you can pretend to program if someone comes around.

duiker101 7y ago
Please note, .net is the real original hacker typer without ads I made a long time ago