Experiences with non-techies

[CrowTheRobot]

31 minutes ago, Ankh Tech said:

ww

well our schoo has about four ICT rooms each with about 30 computers, they used dell optiplexes, have admin bloced, and we each got private account, it used to e your student  number and the literal password "password", but one year ago - when you reach year 7 - they et you change it

...And here I thought it was bad that the previous district I worked for had student passwords all set to eight digit entirely numerical codes...

[Ankh Tech]

2 minutes ago, CrowTheRobot said:

...And here I thought it was bad that the previous district I worked for had student passwords all set to eight digit entirely numerical codes...

yeah our school is a bit lazy, but they do an excellent job at blocking tbh, or at least securly does, but I still do have a couple of tricks under my sleeve

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Ankh Tech said:

yeah our school is a bit lazy, but they do an excellent job at blocking tbh, or at least securly does, but I still do have a couple of tricks under my sleeve

My school is the opposite of lazy

The only way to get around their restrictions fully is a tpm clear

[Ankh Tech]

24 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

My school is the opposite of lazy

The only way to get around their restrictions fully is a tpm clear

wow, well we use chromebooks for school so,  they even block linux program

[Helpful Tech Witch]

44 minutes ago, Ankh Tech said:

wow, well we use chromebooks for school so,  they even block linux program

Yeah

they do On ours to.

ive not cleared my tpm, but I learned exactly where it is for my model, so I can

[Ankh Tech]

12 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Yeah

they do On ours to.

ive not cleared my tpm, but I learned exactly where it is for my model, so I can

what's your mosel? We get acer chromebooks

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, Ankh Tech said:

hat's your mosel? We get acer chromebooks

Asus. Not sure of the modelno rn

[da na]

Our school IT buys pretty good computers for the teachers and students but one of the teachers insists on using her old 2009 iMac because "the screen is big". But that thing is hella slow, and you can hear the fan in it if you're sitting in the back of the room. I want to clean it so badly...

[The_Machine125]

Oh god back in 6th grade my class used chrome books with our school accounts. My teacher at the time being a bit older had a massive binder with everyone's logins just open on her desk 24/7.

So one kid gets the bright idea to take photos of everyone's logins so he could gain more YouTube subscribers.

Someone hears and the entire school district locks everyone's accounts during what was our kinda finals weeks.

Everyone lost their accounts for like two weeks because one teacher left a class's logins open on her desk for everyone to see

[da na]

There's a completely spotless '09 Mac Pro and Cinema Display and the accompanying keyboard/mouse just sitting on the living room floor behind a chair at my friend's house. I've been trying to work up the courage to ask them for the whole bundle for like $150. Worst part is, it's right next to the table that holds the iMac. Can't see what model it is but it's probably weaker than that combo of hardware just sitting unused on the floor...

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

There's a completely spotless '09 Mac Pro and Cinema Display and the accompanying keyboard/mouse just sitting on the living room floor behind a chair at my friend's house. I've been trying to work up the courage to ask them for the whole bundle for like $150. Worst part is, it's right next to the table that holds the iMac. Can't see what model it is but it's probably weaker than that combo of hardware just sitting unused on the floor...

Just do it! Worst outcome they say no. Best outcome they give it to you for free.
It's an opportunity that you never may get again.

[da na]

My 4th grade teacher, back when we had projectors, this warning popped up on the screen about needing to replace the lamp and clean the filters. He disregarded it and the projector literally frickin melted. I was in the room when it happened, there was this loud pop, the screen went black, the fan got really loud and blew a generous amount of smoke out the side. Later when the IT team came to replace it they were impressed by how some of the plastic case had actually melted. Needless to say the whole projector was cooked. 

[Bitter]

Grabbed 2 hopefully working HP 280 G2 MT PC's off the scrap guy, $20 for the pair and he was willing to throw in the monitor but it looked rough.

[da na]

Just now, Bitter said:

Grabbed 2 hopefully working HP 280 G2 MT PC's off the scrap guy, $20 for the pair and he was willing to throw in the monitor but it looked rough.

Not bad...

[Helpful Tech Witch]

40 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

My 4th grade teacher, back when we had projectors, this warning popped up on the screen about needing to replace the lamp and clean the filters. He disregarded it and the projector literally frickin melted. I was in the room when it happened, there was this loud pop, the screen went black, the fan got really loud and blew a generous amount of smoke out the side. Later when the IT team came to replace it they were impressed by how some of the plastic case had actually melted. Needless to say the whole projector was cooked. 

"Back when we had projectors"

Wdym? My school has a projector in every room.

[da na]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

"Back when we had projectors"

Wdym? My school has a projector in every room.

We now have these touchscreen board things in every room. The projectors were better.

[Ankh Tech]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

"Back when we had projectors"

Wdym? My school has a projector in every room.

yeah not al schools can afford interactive whiteboards

[Ankh Tech]

1 minute ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

We now have these touchscreen board things in every room. The projectors were better.

^^^^^

[dean_5234]

I once opened up a family members pc (meaning took of the side panel) to remount their wifi card, and they took the pc from me as soon as I took of the side panel and said Ok Thanks for fixing it. They thought I was done.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

3 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

We now have these touchscreen board things in every room. The projectors were better.

 

1 minute ago, Ankh Tech said:

yeah not al schools can afford interactive whiteboards

We have active walls, they're weird toutchacreen projectors board things, but are currently switching to some big toutchacreen TV things

[da na]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

 

We have active walls, they're weird toutchacreen projectors board things, but are currently switching to some big toutchacreen TV things

That sounds cool

[pythonmegapixel]

6 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

We have active walls, they're weird toutchacreen projectors board things, but are currently switching to some big toutchacreen TV things

You mean Promethean ActivBoards?

 

We had those too, though they've all been removed now. They were a lot of fun to mess around with.

 

Anyone else remember when the system got confused and thought the pen was in the wrong place, and you had to go through a procedure where you click on all the little crosses and it re-calibrates it?

 

Of course if you did this with the board already calibrated properly, and didn't tap where the crosses were, you could totally mess up the calibration.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

You mean Promethean ActivBoards?

 

We had those too, though they've all been removed now. They were a lot of fun to mess around with.

 

Anyone else remember when the system got confused and thought the pen was in the wrong place, and you had to go through a procedure where you click on all the little crosses and it re-calibrates it?

 

Of course if you did this with the board already calibrated properly, and didn't tap where the crosses were, you could totally mess up the calibration.

yeah, those. We have a devvrent version. These:

and were getting these:

theres a bnunch opf both the activwall and activboard in the a closet next to out server room

[Bitter]

6 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Not bad...

Skylake Pentium, probably G4400, 8GB dual channel, 500GB 7200RPM Toshiba, optical, Windows Pro license in the board, PSU and board are 24 pin. No GPU but that's expected, that's rare in prebuilts. I can either pass them onto someone who needs a PC or flip them to sell local, I'll probably keep one just for having a spare tower around. I'll see if they work tonight but other that one spot of rust and skbw scrapes it was just dust inside. Came from a church he said.

 

Just remembered that my friend needs a screen, if he has a screen next time I'll take it for her if it's not banged up. 

 

Got them home, dusted them out at work, I'll have to boot them up tonight or tomorrow to see if they work!

[dean_5234]

I've got a dumb one.

 

Not to name names, but it really pisses me off when people recommend parts worth hundreds of dollars, someone calls them out on their bad advice, and they say "Sorry I don't know much about tech."

 

THEN WHY ARE YOU RECOMMENDING SOMEONE BUY SOMETHING...