CIPWTTKT&GC v 0x18 (v24): Warship finds something edition - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Warship;39786910]Oh, I didn't know we had any 3rd graders in the thread[/QUOTE] 10th grade actually (russian schools start at 6-7 years old) still, we only get to use computers like once a week here meanwhile some fucking second graders have a class full of shiny macbooks, and what do we get? slow-ass pcs with swastikas drawn on monitors. seriously, with a fucking pen, right on the fucking display.

I'm looking to buy a good wireless bridge. I want to mount the bridge high up in my room, then hook it up to my gigabit switch so I can run my PC and future game consoles on it. Are their dual band bridges? So I could connect it to both of my Routers antennae? Or should I get two bridges, one 2.4ghz N and 5ghz N.

[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;39786908]We just have a shitty security thing that doesn't let us go to any game website or forum. Sucks butts. Used to be able to get around it by using https:// or if you went into google translate and set it from any language to english then copy pasted the link in it'd let you use the translated link but they caught that one pretty fast. For some reason they won't block Twitter though.[/QUOTE] I had that when I was at school, we just put firefox portable onto a memory stick and told it to connect to a proxy.

Eh, we have around 30 Intel Atoms in our computer class. And three hardcore pieces of shit in our library. we don't have a regular computer class lesson anymore, but time to time we go there. And most of the time, my flash drive is at home that day. The keyring part of it broke, so i don't carry it with me much anymore.

I can boot straight in to linux on my school computers, lmao. I have a persistent #! livecd on a 32GB stick, I use a socks5 proxy located at my home [editline]3rd March 2013[/editline] OpenArena all day erryday

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39787351]I can boot straight in to linux on my school computers, lmao. I have a persistent #! livecd on a 32GB stick, I use a socks5 proxy located at my home [editline]3rd March 2013[/editline] OpenArena all day erryday[/QUOTE] oh shit i should totally do that proxy thing

I used to boot to GNU/Linux on our new computers, until we stopped using them. Oh, and we also have this Security Application called "System Watcher". I can use ForceVisible program to open its settings and disable it.

though i dunno about the crunchbang thing, considering how well it ran on my laptop, it won't survive school pcs :v

My old highschool had blocked command prompt and you could open it with like a 3 line bat file. So glad university doesn't give a shit about anything.

[QUOTE=Ezhik;39787422]though i dunno about the crunchbang thing, considering how well it ran on my laptop, it won't survive school pcs :v[/QUOTE] Crunchbang is quite lightweight, though? [editline]3rd March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=alien_guy;39787437]My old highschool had blocked command prompt and you could open it with like a 3 line bat file. So glad university doesn't give a shit about anything.[/QUOTE] You can launch applications from powerpoint on my computers too, lol.

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39787483]Crunchbang is quite lightweight, though? [/QUOTE] i dunno, it would just randomly close apps i had running, and wouldn't let me change the damn wallpaper

Anyone know if VMware is superior to VirtualBox? We use VMware at uni for messing around with linux distros and I have a feeling I could get it for free. [B]Edit:[/B] Looks like i can get it free [img]http://i.minus.com/iUykRfnq8p81B.png[/img]

for me vmware works better than virtualbox, but i'm not a vm expert, so... :v:

Poweramp doesn't find my new songs even after rescanning. What should I do?

[QUOTE=Ezhik;39787542]i dunno, it would just randomly close apps i had running, and wouldn't let me change the damn wallpaper[/QUOTE] Nitrogen. Almost certain it comes with #!

We always tried to stay pretty on top when I was working in our school. Our latest machines were IVB i3 Machines with 4GB ram and 1080p displays. The ones before were Sandy Pentiums, and so forth. It filtered down with the IT rooms getting the newest machines. We removed the last of the Pentium D's last year.

My current school has iMacs everywhere (The white C2D ones) but I've never used them and it's not very often that I see people using them, as everyone brings their own laptops to school. My year was the first year to be 100% digital, no books or any of that crap :hehe:

ok so the HIS 7950 IceQ has been out of stock everywhere forever, i give up on it. whats the quietest 7950 out there?

So any recommendations?

[QUOTE=meppers;39787762]ok so the HIS 7950 IceQ has been out of stock everywhere forever, i give up on it. whats the quietest 7950 out there?[/QUOTE] Probably the Twin Frozr ones.

It's kinda weird seeing how alot of your schools have crappy computers. My school has a Mac lab full if brand new iMacs, two cad rooms with 30 computers each with a i7-2600k and 5450, alot of mobile computer cars (crappy computers though), a c2d computer and a projector in every classroom a library with 20 computers with i5-2500s, 10 iPads for checkout, and over 100 students with iPads given, to them to use over the school year, myself included.

I don't think it's weird, obviously not all schools have the same kind of money

I'm actually stuck on pretty good PC's at collej. Mind you, it's a computer oriented course, but stuck on some i5-2450's (?), 8 Giggaramms of 1600Mhz DDR3, Some last gen mid range Nvidia card (GTX 340's or something) and a metric fuckton of space.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;39787839]So any recommendations?[/QUOTE] build an infrared link.

In my college there are Dells, XStone Computers, iMacs... No sign of one Thinkpad except mine. None are i3 or anything more powerful. They're all Core 2 Duos.

okay like 90% of your posts in here are about your thinkpads or wanting a new thinkpad or something thinkpad related, please stop

[QUOTE=gaboer;39787904]It's kinda weird seeing how alot of your schools have crappy computers. My school has a Mac lab full if brand new iMacs, two cad rooms with 30 computers each with a i7-2600k and 5450, alot of mobile computer cars (crappy computers though), a c2d computer and a projector in every classroom a library with 20 computers with i5-2500s, 10 iPads for checkout, and over 100 students with iPads given, to them to use over the school year, myself included.[/QUOTE] I always found giving students iPads weird Someone here ordered a hundred or so iPads for our school for various purposes without ever really consulting people who know what they are and aren't useful for. For example, they aren't useful as books. Another irritating thing is that they could've actually bought some decent computers with that money. They do have ThinkPads - in most classrooms, tied to the teachers' desks so that they can't be moved. Why this is the case, I don't know. They had no issue getting desktop computers for everywhere else, but the teachers get to use laptops that they can't even take with them - which makes it totally pointless to have laptops in the first place.

That reminds me of my college's main techs putting 32 bit XP on i5 PCs with 8GB of RAM and they thought it only showing 3GB was a virus. that was [i]fun[/i]

Also, they at least used to have this weird VNC thing for controlling the students' computers in computer lab classrooms. The issue was that the password was stored in the registry of each computer running the VNC server, it was unencrypted, the program restored the password back to original on startup if it was changed so it really couldn't be changed - and the program was run as an user, so even though the task manager was disabled a simple tskill could bring down the process. And of course eventually every kid knew the password which was the same on every computer, and since the hostnames of the computers had been taped onto each case, the best way to prevent your cursor from being remote-controlled from two or three places at once was to just kill the process.

At school we have an Atom netbook per student they're alright when you trim the fat they put in it.