what the actual fuck
my school blocks connections to any secure website, which includes every single e-mail service short of the teacher's internal system. not to mention they installed firefox and chrome and all these adblock filters for usage yet forgot to install Flash and now these brand new PCs are completely useless
why do idiots run IT departments
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
fuck i'm getting zeroes on assignments i can't physically produce because the school is actively blocking my gmail
Just set up Samba as primary domain controller in class.
I only have a slight clue how I did it.
[QUOTE=wingless;32265952]I was talking to horsedrowner while working on a little AES Text encrypter thingy, he mentioned how one of his school things was in comic sans and... it ended up like this.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7273219/ZScreen/2011-09/Text_Encypter-2011-09-13_19.51.32.png[/img][/QUOTE]
It's so Beautiful
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;32266884]It's so Beautiful[/QUOTE]
[url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7273219/Text%20Encrypter%20-%20Comic%20sans%20edition.exe]Stare at it all you want[/url]
I'm so hardcore, I DMA with a needle and a magnet.
[QUOTE=nikomo;32267070]I'm so hardcore, I DMA with a needle and a magnet.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but that would be really boring. Half life isn't fun when all you see is 1's and 0's.
I always plug my android phone in and use USB tethering when they pull shit like that.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;32267450][thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8664592/UnmoderatedFP.png[/thumb]
Hehehe, unmoderated. :v:[/QUOTE]
Send in a screencap from Garrys last ban spree
[QUOTE=FFStudios;32266648] not to mention they installed firefox and chrome and all these adblock filters for usage yet forgot to install Flash and now these brand new PCs are completely useless
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chrome comes with flash installed though
Oh god they only have Safari at college.
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
Help! somebody give me IE, the shiny is blinding!
So we've started a database course in school.
I did this a year and a half ago at home.
I don't even have to do the exercises, I just run around and help everyone with the mySQL formatting and cryptic commands.
So yesterday we got told that we'll be getting our school issued notebooks (which today I found out to be a HP Pavillion g6, with an i5 2410m). This confused me a bit because at first they said that everybody would get eeePC's, then only the lower years would get them and 11th year won't. Turns out that we do,and we actually get much better ones while the lower years get eeePC's, so I was prepared for the 2 hours in our tutor groups this morning that we would have "learning how to use them". And by prepared, I mean Ubuntu 10.10 (I know ubuntu sucks but it'll serve the purpose and 10.10 is better than 11+ admit it) on a USB stick. Spent a while looking what kind of bloatware were on the machines before I reset the BIOS password and got Ubuntu on it.
At the end of the 2 hours, I get told that we're not actually allowed to take them home because they're too expensive and we'll break them. So I basically spent about an hour putting linux on the thing, even though I'm never going to use it because when we use the laptops in the day everything will be done in Office. On Windows.
all of my rage
Ahaha, apparently last years web dev teacher made them do everything on geocities, and he didn't know what the hell he was doing and was constantly googling examples.
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
I think I would rather have the macfag I'm getting this year.
[QUOTE=zerosix;32268444]So yesterday we got told that we'll be getting our school issued notebooks (which today I found out to be a HP Pavillion g6, with an i5 2410m). This confused me a bit because at first they said that everybody would get eeePC's, then only the lower years would get them and 11th year won't. Turns out that we do,and we actually get much better ones while the lower years get eeePC's, so I was prepared for the 2 hours in our tutor groups this morning that we would have "learning how to use them". And by prepared, I mean Ubuntu 10.10 (I know ubuntu sucks but it'll serve the purpose and 10.10 is better than 11+ admit it) on a USB stick. Spent a while looking what kind of bloatware were on the machines before I reset the BIOS password and got Ubuntu on it.
At the end of the 2 hours, I get told that we're not actually allowed to take them home because they're too expensive and we'll break them. So I basically spent about an hour putting linux on the thing, even though I'm never going to use it because when we use the laptops in the day everything will be done in Office. On Windows.
all of my rage[/QUOTE]
It's like this at like every school I know and I'm always like, why? If students aren't allowed to take them home then why the fuck do you get laptops instead of desktops.
-slowpunch-
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;32268510]It's like this at like every school I know and I'm always like, why? If students aren't allowed to take them home then why the fuck do you get laptops instead of desktops.[/QUOTE]
the head of IT is my IT teacher and the one in charge of the laptops, she's great and she knows that I know a lot more than the other pupils because she's been my teacher for 5 years now, so hopefully if I talk to her she'll let me take mine home
it'd be nice to have a decent laptop for once that might even run Minecraft at a stable framerate without singeing the hairs on my legs
network administration using linux class, teacher just told us to chmod +777 a file
[QUOTE=chrishind10;32268491]Ahaha, apparently last years web dev teacher made them do everything on geocities, and he didn't know what the hell he was doing and was constantly googling examples.
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
I think I would rather have the macfag I'm getting this year.[/QUOTE]
I have to teach my IT teacher how to use the CAD/CAM software so he can teach everyone else.
Last year I spent 3/4 of my lessons helping others because he's useless.
[QUOTE=Blaberry;32268086]So we've started a database course in school.
I did this a year and a half ago at home.
I don't even have to do the exercises, I just run around and help everyone with the mySQL formatting and cryptic commands.[/QUOTE]
I had something similar in my college course with a Databasing module we did. Not MySQL, we did Access, but it taught databasing so whatever.
We had to make a database for a prison (which didn't exist, obviously). Which could hold records for inmates, cells, staff and incidents between inmates. I had already done something extremely similar at GCSE level, so I just re-made that basically and spent the rest of the module helping everyone else and adding eyecandy to my menus. I finished the database months before it was needed.
Best module ever.
[QUOTE=anton;32267866]chrome comes with flash installed though[/QUOTE]
oops, it wasn't chrome, had a logo that was very similar
however IE comes with flash too, so if I really needed it i suppose i could use it
[QUOTE=FFStudios;32268906]oops, it wasn't chrome, had a logo that was very similar
however IE comes with flash too, so if I really needed it i suppose i could use it[/QUOTE]
IE does not come with flash.
Monitor comes thursday!
:dance:
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32268747]network administration using linux class, teacher just told us to chmod +777 a file[/QUOTE]
Acceptable policy in a closed environment. (Read: everyone in the network is in the same room, so if something happens, you can punch the guy in the face).
I've done it a couple of times to test shit in class.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;32268510]It's like this at like every school I know and I'm always like, why? If students aren't allowed to take them home then why the fuck do you get laptops instead of desktops.[/QUOTE]
Our school gets a load of "brand new" laptops and then decides that the best thing to do is to leave them all in a dedicated computer room, with wired web access and power wires, and you're not allowed to move them at all. Why even bother getting laptops then? I'd sooner have a desktop, as they are typically more ergonomic, and they are cheaper for more power. (These laptops all have W7 installed, but can barely run it - I'm not bitching at moderately powerful laptops, these literally struggle to keep Word and Chrome open at the same time, not to mention 5 minutes to log in.)
I'm wondering if the our network / computer admins are totally separate from those who decide the "technology budget" or whatever it is.
There's a lot of good reasons for laptops over desktop rigs in such an environment.
Hell, I learned the biggest one first-hand when I was doing the stupid 6-weeks at a real job thing.
Worked at a health care facility for disabled people.
The section that handled management all had people using laptops on docks so they could just grab them if they needed to do work somewhere else.
They were changing rigs all over the bloody place because they were switching from XP to 7.
Pick up a laptop and compare the weight of that to your average desktop rig.
Now imagine having to carry all the computers of an entire section for HDD removal etc.
Laptops? Pick up around 10 laptops easily, carry them with no strain.
Desktops? 4-6 and my arms were about to explode after the day.
And we're not talking a small facility either, that place was pretty big with like over 20 departments.
My school has 4 sets of 30 or so laptops in wheeled containers/charging stations explicitly for moving around. These ones are literally there to be used as desktops - they are not allowed to be moved.
They fix the computers with the usual format and USB drive with an image of what needs to be on it, so I can't see their logic behind the whole thing.
Also, I'd sooner swap a desktops HDD as opposed to a laptops, especially if I had to do 30. I'd take the HDDs to the desktops, as opposed to the other way around, and I think that our technicians would do the same - they are basically operating from a large closet.
Sigh, bloody Ruskies.
Checked my email, Xfire password recovery.
It includes the IP it was sent from, hmm...
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/q4UEV.png[/IMG]
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