Ok I had a briliant idea for a prank today but it was a big enough scale I foolishly thought to ask permission first, which of course means I was told no.  However with some of the leg work done I have decided to post what I have so far here incase there are any enterprising IT employees out there in the world with a Cisco phone system.

So my idea, I thought man that tune on Cadie’s blogspot page is annoying, I should make a ring tone out of it. So I did.  Then I thought, I should put this on a few phones, but wait! I should do one better, I should put it on everyones phone.  Then came the dilema, how to do such a task.  Well it turns out such a thing is no large task at all on a Cisco phone system like we run here at my unnamed work.  Where was I, oh right, well Cisco phone systems use a TFTP server to host all of their ring tones and they store them in a .raw audio format, so making them is easy and adding new ones is easy, for more information on that try here.  The really fun part about that is if you are an administrator and you have access to that TFTP server all you have to do to replace all ringers at your site with an annoying ringer is copy all the .raw files out of that path (to back them up, then make enough copies of cadie.raw and rename them for each real ring tone you currently have.  Then copy all of your fake cadie ringtones over and voila all phones ring with that annoying tune.

One last thing for anyone interested in the cadie song I ripped an MP3 from the youtube video and uploaded it here for you pleasure.