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With the IT Manager out this morning, it’s been a perfect opportunity to have some fun. Can remember reading a couple of weeks ago about some French guy popping Linux Live CD’s into computers in various shops around Paris or somewhere foreign like that, then rebooting them for a laugh. Let the side down a bit by also providing instructions as how to get Windows back, but the idea was sound.

So, whipped off a dozen or so Edubuntu CD’s (very kidified and simplistic!) on our duplicator first thing this morning and wandered around the building slipping them into various drives whilst people had gone off for their morning coffee. Of course, the IT Manager’s shiny new laptop has been treated to a full install. Gave me something to do for half an hour.

The helldesk have already figured out what’s been going on after the phones started ringing and one of them checked out the machine in question, so are now just telling people to reboot and remove the CD. They’ll just tell the IT Manager to do this when he gets back into the office this afternoon and that’s the fun will really start…