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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by imp on Friday May 30, 2008 @10:32AM (#204372)
If they use a Windows computer, type the command Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow. It turns their screen upside-down. The other arrows work as well to turn the screen sideways. Not sure how familiar most people are with this though. I've always wanted to try it on someone and see how they reacted.
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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by seren6ipity on Friday May 30, 2008 @12:49PM (#204574)
I'm so tempted to try it out with n number of windows m/c around ;)
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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by partner55083777 on Friday May 30, 2008 @02:55PM (#204736)
It works under X as well.

$ xrandr -o inverted

To get back to normal,

$ xrandr -o normal

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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by notauser on Friday May 30, 2008 @03:16PM (#204765)
That's an intel video chipset utility. More recent ones support Ctl-Alt(left|right) as well.
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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by frederiksen on Friday May 30, 2008 @12:31PM (#204551)
I cannot wait to use this.
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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by andrewbadera on Friday May 30, 2008 @01:58PM (#204662)
ahhh ... no it doesn't. perhaps with a third party monitor utility ...
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Re:Ask YC: Prank Hacking by imp on Friday May 30, 2008 @03:02PM (#204745)
It might be a Dell thing. I've only tried it on Dells and I've seen it work on a couple laptops and an older desktop. Haven't really tested this extensively though. YMMV.
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