Grex Smiley Conference

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Grex Smiley Item 6: Things NOT, I repeat NOT to do.
Entered by snafu on Sat Dec 10 17:22:55 UTC 1994:

Here's the direct opposite of this conference. How about some fun and 
legal things not to do with your computer? Or for that matter, 
not-so-fun and legal things not to do with your computer.

78 responses total.

#1 of 78 by orinoco on Sat Dec 10 21:26:25 1994:

Fun and legal things not to do w/your computer
#1 teach it to accept input from a soldering iron.
#2 or a brick
#3 moving at high speed
#4 or a low speed, for that matter
#5 or a medium speed
#6 or a ver...well you get the picture.

#2 of 78 by aahz on Sat Dec 10 23:18:33 1994:

HELP IM TRAPPED IN A CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE FACTORY

#3 of 78 by eldrich on Sat Dec 17 00:30:15 1994:

Droping large anvils on your modem whenever grex is busy!
Feeding a uncensored snoop doggie dog CD into your CD-rom!
Makeing a book of 1,000,001 thing to screw up your computer!

yup.....

#4 of 78 by snafu on Sat Dec 17 19:37:59 1994:

Thank you eldrich.

#5 of 78 by kain on Mon Jan 23 23:48:38 1995:

I thought it was quite good.

#6 of 78 by kain on Thu Feb 9 03:19:39 1995:

I have sevral

1 leave it on while on vacation  2send junk mail to major orgonaation  3send
for an online service sevral times (100) or  so use free time at your leisure!

#7 of 78 by plork on Sun Feb 12 02:18:24 1995:

Leave your modem connected over niight! (ahem, kain!!!!!!!)

#8 of 78 by orinoco on Tue Feb 14 00:26:08 1995:

Yeah, kain...

#9 of 78 by kain on Tue Feb 14 03:09:45 1995:

pretty cool huh

#10 of 78 by plork on Mon Feb 20 01:18:19 1995:

Don't worry, he has experienced this many times, that's why we can tell that
He's the real thing....

#11 of 78 by kain on Wed Feb 22 01:59:50 1995:

funny plrok, funny

#12 of 78 by snafu on Sat Feb 25 05:21:44 1995:

That's plork, not plrok.

#13 of 78 by kain on Sat Feb 25 16:43:27 1995:

detals details

#14 of 78 by seveners on Sun Mar 5 15:24:32 1995:

How about giving your friend the latest cool game that you've got that sort of
has a small program on it that will delete his entire hard drive when he plays
it.  Wait, maybe that should go under Fun and LEGAL things.  What do you guys
think?

#15 of 78 by orinoco on Tue Mar 7 15:36:30 1995:

i dunno, you could just blame it on a computer virus you didn't know about...

#16 of 78 by plork on Tue Mar 28 02:28:36 1995:

That's Details, Details, KNIA!!!!!!!

#17 of 78 by plork on Thu Mar 30 00:53:57 1995:

HAH!!

#18 of 78 by kain on Sun Apr 2 21:20:30 1995:

KAIN Thank you very much.

#19 of 78 by plork on Mon Apr 3 01:09:59 1995:

well, you misspelled my name!!!

#20 of 78 by kain on Mon Apr 3 15:33:22 1995:

okay, okay sorry!

#21 of 78 by plork on Mon Apr 3 19:23:45 1995:

accepted

#22 of 78 by ragabash on Sun May 7 02:02:05 1995:

Never try to use your cat as a temporary replacement modem. (hairballs
interfere with D/L's).

#23 of 78 by orinoco on Sun May 7 02:07:31 1995:

Howdy and welcome ragabash!

#24 of 78 by toking on Thu Jun 8 09:38:13 1995:

..pretend that your 1220 modem is a 28,8

#25 of 78 by kain on Mon Jul 10 21:30:49 1995:

I like this iem I am revivng iwt things not to do hmm, crash grex!
remind us of somone? hmm <zima possibly>

#26 of 78 by toking on Thu Jul 20 11:43:03 1995:

ohhh heres a good one..NEVER *NEVER* **NEVER** use the program compact.exe
for anything <it comes with dos 3.1+> it crashed my hard drive !!!!!!

#27 of 78 by orinoco on Sat Aug 12 01:26:46 1995:

how 'bout NEVER *NEVER* **NEVER** use DOS for anything....he he he....

#28 of 78 by toking on Mon Aug 14 03:07:07 1995:

helps if you have a computer that will run something other than dos...

#29 of 78 by orinoco on Mon Aug 14 13:57:39 1995:

Hey, if you want text-based, go for UNIX, if you want icon-based, go for 
macs.

#30 of 78 by orinoco on Mon Aug 14 13:59:41 1995:

If you're stuck with an IBM, windows will have to do...

#31 of 78 by setzer on Thu Aug 17 16:11:00 1995:

I am getting a vision that orinoco doesn't like IBMs.

#32 of 78 by orinoco on Thu Aug 17 21:32:31 1995:

no, just DOS.

#33 of 78 by toking on Fri Aug 18 01:20:09 1995:

hell...at this point id like anything thats running on something other than an
old ass IBM 286 :(

#34 of 78 by kain on Sat Sep 9 02:50:52 1995:

yup
just a bit of drift here, hmm never pour a bucket of water over the key board

#35 of 78 by setzer on Wed Sep 13 19:43:08 1995:

Or a bottle of Mountain Dew!!!  (oops...)

#36 of 78 by orinoco on Wed Sep 13 19:58:14 1995:

Bad setzer!  

<giggle>

#37 of 78 by kain on Fri Sep 15 19:54:03 1995:

or coke

#38 of 78 by setzer on Sun Oct 22 20:21:17 1995:

I still have a tough time making just one period when I push the key.....



Here's another cool thing to do:  Hide a stick of C4 inside someone;s
computer casing, set on a timer, of course!  When the timer goes off...

#39 of 78 by orinoco on Tue Oct 24 23:19:17 1995:

a time-delay water balloon will work just as well