Computers Gone Wild
By Evan Blass 
posted October 21st 2005 1:10PM
posted October 21st 2005 1:10PM
Ever wonder what would happen if your computer started to go nuts in a public space? Click the link for one possible scenario.
posted October 21st 2005 1:10PM
Ever wonder what would happen if your computer started to go nuts in a public space? Click the link for one possible scenario.
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That's kinda old, but funny. I study in that library all the time.
"I told you OS X takes a while to boot!"
I came across this a while ago - the rest of their stuff is pretty funny too!
Haha, an oldie but a goodie.
Can't watch it with sound right now, which... probably ruins the humor of the whole thing, I would guess? :P
You know you review too many movies though when all you can think is, "they're crossing the line!" The camera kept switching between the main character's front right to his back left, the #1 big no-no for filmmakers. But then, if Tony Scott can do it...
Do Powerbooks not have a mute button, or what?
lol, just so we're clear, powerbooks do NOT do that sound... that was intentional!
To clarify, all macs emit a nice chime when powered up, but on powerbooks and ibooks you can cancel the sound by muting the volume when you power the computer off. There are several utilities to auto-mute-on-shutdown but AFAIK if you want to replace or substitute the startup chime you will have to be a really fantastic engineer. I believe that the chime is still entirely based in hardware so no amount of tweakage to the system software or open firmware will allow you to modify it.
It would be a really fun prank though!
Something like that happened to me but much more imbarrasing: I was watching some porn movie one night and the computer when into hibernation due to low battery, but when I plugged-in in school the next day i totally freak when the movie continued playing where it left it took almost five seconds to stop but the damage was done. now I turn off hibernation just in case. Oops!
i dont get it
Stupid and contrived.
I must be humour impaired, but that was really lame. Where was the humour? It was an intentionally staged prank about some moron who is 'smart' enough to change their default startup sound to something ridiculously long, yet doesn't know how to turn down his volume or hit the mute button. So the scenario isn't really plausible. Nor are the 'spontaneous' reactions from the people around him that funny either ....
Perhaps the joke is that someone actually wasted time filming this and putting a website togther ....
Anyone know where you can get that startup sound?
Max (or anyone) what library is that?
Not particularly funny, but amusing in the "ive had that happen, but not as bad" kind of way.
FYI - powerbooks haev a mute button on the keyboard, doesnt work until the OS is booted though.
Best way to avoide unwanted sound: buy a $1 1/4inch headphone adaptor from RadioShack and plug it in the audio out. Hardware routes all sound to it instead of the internal speakers... you get complete silence.
Oh c'mon everyone, it's pretty funny on a college campus. We had people skateboarding through our lib during finals week! A little levity can be healthy in an environment like that.
It's Butler Library at Columbia in NYC. The Prangstgr?asn't been around in a while, but one of their most infamous was the NYU Campus Tour which had to be taken offline due to legal pressures.
The guy with the Windows based laptop started it first with the start-up chime. The Prankster was playing off of that. In a quiet environment the sound should be turned off by everyone.
Oh man! This reminds me of back in the day. In OS 7 or 8 the desktop wouldnt be displayed until the startup sound finished. One of my co-workers found the *best* sound clip. It was 5 minutes of chineese. It sounded like a guy giving an energetic speech (with no audience). Hilarous watching someone have to listen to 5 minutes of chineese they didn't understand just to boot their computer. (If anyone knows of that sound clip please post back!!)
I agree not that funny. I had funnier and much worse happen
I was teaching english in Korea to these two kids. It was the end of the lesson so I checked my email. I opened something from my friend back home . Up pops gay porn and sound yelling "I'm watching gay porn". I quickly turned off the monitor and sound. I had to bargain with the kids to make them leave the room because they wanted to know what I was looking at!!
It's Butler Library at Columbia.
Lol, just like a friend of mine.. he had complete songs playing every time he booted up. This was when windows 95 just got released and he had to reboot a couple of times every hour.
Their 'lecture musical' is way better...another oldie but goodie.
I thought it was really funny. The expressions on people's faces were classic! I think it was a bit of a poke at Windows XP's start-up chime. Every time I hear it a chill goes down my spine. I don't know how they can physically get away with such a tacky piece of crap.
Personally I'd prefer to hear that 1 minute long song than the Windows one!
OLD!... and I MEAN OLD... like JESUS walking his pet Dinosaur OLD... like the DELL DUDE GOT arrested old...
That was f*cking retarded. I want the two minutes I wasted waiting for something funny to happen back Engadget. I'm guessing the same people who laugh at this crap thing 'Curb your enthusiasm' is a smash comedy hit too.
Must be a really slow news day for you boys huh?
it'd be funnier if it was a prank, rather than one guy intentionally doing it to his own computer.
That confirms what I think about Apple and its worshippers... they are simply obnoxious and annoying.
I hate iApple, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iOsX, iPowerbook, iDRM, iQuicktime and everything iRelated. Burn in hell iJobs, long life to Windows...
You can see cameras in some of the shot - about half way through. They tried to setup the shot so the girls head covered it, but you could see the mic and handle of the XL1 or Sony 1000. Could have been funnier if someone football tactled his ass or smashed the computer. Good timing to play off someone elses computer.
What really pisses me off are the people who use and carry their cell phones at the GYM! Come on now!
Best way to avoide unwanted sound: buy a $1 1/4inch headphone adaptor from RadioShack and plug it in the audio out. Hardware routes all sound to it instead of the internal speakers... you get complete silence.
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Put your hand over the speaker?
The joke was like.. if Windows makes a rinky dink sound, then a Mac start up sound is like a huge symphony. Get it? Good.
It wasn't even an annoying sound, kinda soothing.
Hey mf, no dessert for you! I already spoke to your parents.
More to the point, where can I get that sound?
About five years ago, I powered up my previously docked Dell laptop in a Philadelphia airport terminal. Once the computer started up, the terminal was filled with a high pitch squeal. It took a few moments to realize that the high-pitched sound was coming from my very own laptop -- downside of human hearing.
It was feedback between the microphone and speakers at full volume. It also was incredibly loud.
Wow, totally posted on this last May. Toatally funny though, my friend can do the same thing, weve been working on a good one(prank) for a while.
The whole point of this is to parody the stupid fuckin' windows users who can't be arsed to turn off their startup sounds in public places. It's a political comment, not a "let's make a joke" clip.
Nicely done!
Gotta love the goobers who fail to see the humor due to the fact that no one gets decapitated and there is no slapstick readily available in this clip, and decide they need to bellow their displeasure for the rest of us to hear and or read.
"I don't think it's funny, therefore I'm going to WHINE about it, because if I feel it's stupid, EVERYONE ELSE MUST AS WELL!"
Well said, Douglas.
Gotta love the people who can't tolerate a different opinion and feel that they can be smug about their morally superiority or something cos their opinion 'goes with the flow'.
And doubly funny when they whine about the whiners.
The first year our school provided laptops to students, some of them forgot to turn the sound off, and background music for sites would come blaring out of their speakers. They quickly learned to turn the speakers off. It look longer to teach them how to pay attention in class instead of just surfing more covertly. :)
For the Apple-haters (you know who you are): the Mac startup sound is just one chord that lasts for less time than the Windows startup jingle.
#38,
point being?