[Petrarch of the VBB]

At school they have many annoying utilities to stop you getting on any decent websites, OK fine. They have CyberPatrol, SuperScout, Websense, and some fourth one I can't remember. For a while it's just been like porn sites, any sites about games and such.

This was annoying in itself, as I, along with many others, are basing our GCSE Graphics final piece around a game of some sort. these systems amployed by the school make research damn near impossible.

Now, however, they have discovered that porn can be found on the goggle image search. AND THEY HAVE BLOCKED GOOGLE! Yes GOOGLE IS BLOCKED! US google, UK Google, even Canada google. However, the image search (images.google.com) isn't blocked, which prompts to question the competence of the head of IT. I know have to use either German or french google, which is annoying in the most.

[Stryke 9]

Eh, I don't see why they gotta bother. Let the kids educate themselves about some subjects- the schools sure as **** ain't gonna.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Exactly, and I've tried to erm... explain this to them. But do they listen? Do they buggery.

I used to be able to get round it via ctrl-alt-del, but they disabled that.

[Stryke 9]

They do buggery? Right in front of you? And they're STILL worried about some kid catching sight of a tit?

Wierd school.

[phreak]

have they disabled running .exe's off of a disk or cd?

we got around our school security by loading security cracks onto disks and cds

[Fineus]

I agree, my college has blocked off the 3DAP Dynamic servers (but not 3DAP itself) so I can't access these forums from college... but I can access pretty much everything else.

They've carefully hidden the C:\ drive icon - of course a shortcut solves that instantly.

Idiots.

[Stryke 9]

Ugh. I've actually got a competent network admin at school, but that just means he doesn't **** up the computers to the point where they're not functional. Security STILL can be bypassed (for one thing, his Windows-based software can't detect the Linux box we had hidden and feeding off the T-1 link;) ), nad the computers are still only barely functional.

And the only real security problem the school ever had was some asshole ninth grader stealing the mouse balls. Which they have so far failed to solve.

[Fetty]

small city school => me understanding most about puters => me parttime admin => me dont have to go into puter classes

[wEvil]

lol, at our Uni they obviously made some poor sod go around all 3,000 computers in the LRC and glue the damn balls in.

Which means when they get caked in crap you can no longer clean them out.  


*claps loudly* -  i'd like to thank RM for managing to make PIII-900's function like 486's.   I'd also like to thank the technical support division of University of Hertfordshire for their continual and total incompetence at tackling most problems that do crop up.  Finally i'd like to take a big, fat dump on the university accounts department for misappropriation of funds.

Rot in hell, morons.

[01010]

Reminds me of my high school. Used to block off all access to the hard drives so you could only run items off the start menu or desktop icons. However, they left internet explorer on and a quick file:\\c:\ saw access to everything. Tried to point it out and got into a ****load of trouble for it.

So when I got the chance I formatted the ****er.

[SKYNET-011]

Just hack it.

Of course they'll know someone's screwed around with the computers, but if your smart(like they are NOT), then all they can do is run around with their heads up their asses and whine 'cause their stupid.

So when I got the chance I formatted the ****er.

[Nico]

didn't even block porn sites at my school...

[Knight Templar]

Porn at my school works, 3dap however does not..

Neither do anything other of intrest. Porn would be doable, but every asshole who hasn't boned off their naked mother in the last 2 days has to get up and come look which is really irratating.

Same thing basically happens when the class can't figure out why a bunch of zero's are being typed on Word and I tell them they need to take their elbow off of the number pad.

[vyper]

[q]Tried to point it out and got into a ****load of trouble for it.

So when I got the chance I formatted the ****er[/q]

Good thinking, thats the kinda stuff I used to do at High School.

[Knight Templar]

ooh BTW, speaking of high school...

I have a horrible english teacher right? Horrible as in we do nothing in class other than the occasional vocabulary assignment and we read a few chapters out of whatever book we are reading at the moment, no discussions about the book, going over grammer, writing styles, the books themselves.. it's bassically jerk off in class and read a chapter of to kill a mockingbird each night.

Teacher is a dumbass. She can't pronounce anything right and is lazy like nothing you beleive. Bassically without writing out a bunch of **** that none of you care about, I want to know a good way to get a bad teacher fired, without having to sleep with the principal.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
ooh BTW, speaking of high school...

I have a horrible english teacher right? Horrible as in we do nothing in class other than the occasional vocabulary assignment and we read a few chapters out of whatever book we are reading at the moment, no discussions about the book, going over grammer, writing styles, the books themselves.. it's bassically jerk off in class and read a chapter of to kill a mockingbird each night.

Teacher is a dumbass. She can't pronounce anything right and is lazy like nothing you beleive. Bassically without writing out a bunch of **** that none of you care about, I want to know a good way to get a bad teacher fired, without having to sleep with the principal. [/B]

No one does not have to sleep with the principle....
One merely informs ones parents of this situation (or other guardian like person, even a guidance teacher) and said English teach will get arse kicking.

[Knight Templar]

well the thing is, my counselor is an even bigger of a twit.. and my mom.. is uh... yea. Lobster knows

[StratComm]

Much easier said than done; it has been my experience that, short of framing her for some sexual assault charge, it is damn near impossible to get someone out of a teaching position if they suck at it.  Case in point: the last teacher fired for something other than sleeping with a student in my district went and opened fire at the assistant superintendant.  Nutcase that one was, but a example nonetheless.  We had a guidance councelor who SUCKED (ever seen Orange County ) and we couldn't even get rid of her after she failed to send some college application stuff off on time and wouldn't fix it.  In short, you'd have to be shamed out of school to get a teacher out.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
well the thing is, my counselor is an even bigger of a twit.. and my mom.. is uh... yea. Lobster knows

Ah.
Well get some sort of anonymous letter off to the education board. In the mean time, read some literature of your own choosing. You can get many classics with appended study notes. Then again, perhaps I'm just too appreciative of works such as Romeo & Juliet. Or, to look at America, The Great Gatsby. (Jay Gatsby is my hero, might I add )

[Knight Templar]

R & J was alright... Ye Olde English is most annoying though.

To kill a mocking bird is queer. Its hard for me to get into a book if I DON'T FRICKEN CARE. I hate those "Hey we are poor kids in the south, lets see what kind of trouble we can get into when we walk over to mr. wilson's house and step in his rose garden while using poor grammar, yet fancy words" books. Note: I'm only on the second chapter.. (And the Audio version is ****e.. the Lady sounds like a retarded 84 year old woman from louisiana that just got done eating her stewed aligator testicles and can't quite swallow all the juices.



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