The school computers

[Princess Luna]

I would love to see this so called i3 7100K

[This_guy1998]

13 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would love to see this so called i3 7100K

If you read OPs post he mentions his elementary "skool" so he is probably very young. 

[Eduard the weeb]

13 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Why do i always hear people say "we played games on the school computers"

 

And i never got how they got away with it

Because our school district fucking locks down the computers

They have blocked these features on the computers

Websites such as

The usual NSFW sites

Steam

Nvidia

Youtube

Ebay

Skype

Google hangouts

rockstar games

fucking VPN sites

But they dont block amazon?

They also block

Inspect element?

Clear browsing history

Changing the desktop background

and a whole bunch of other shit

 

And also when you log on to any PC in our school it says you could face criminal charges for mis-using there fuckin' pentium dell optiplex desktops

 

True story:

In my elementary skool i logged into my personal gmail account to access a illegally scanned in book that the school had put on google drive

And then they yell at me for "copywriting the book"

 

Another true story:

I made a shitty chat website on google sites

They yell at me for "putting students private info online"

 

 

What was your school like?

Am i the only one who has a school that does this?

 

Thats all i wanted to say :3

I am currently in school restriction on are Chromebooks are only at school but they are we can access anything of school grounds.

I play tetris and am on here mostly through the day but last year in middle school they blocked everything at home and school no extensions no games

but my schools lets kids bring there own laptop so over the summer I plan on working and getting one of these to play during lunch

 

 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADYY6F95247&cm_re=Dell_inspiron_gaming_laptop_IPS-_-9SIADYY6F95247-_-Product

[Mooshi]

Ohboy, just wait till you join the work force if you wanna see a truly locked down computer.

[Gikero]

We had Quake III Arena loaded on some school PCs. Started off a "Frag Fridays" and then turned into "Frag whenever we can". One day the principal stopped by and saw us playing. We lied and said it was one of my classmate's personal project. He and I were dabbling in game development, so the story checked out.

[Inversion]

13 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Why do i always hear people say "we played games on the school computers"

 

And i never got how they got away with it

Because our school district fucking locks down the computers

They have blocked these features on the computers

Websites such as

The usual NSFW sites

Steam

Nvidia

Youtube

Ebay

Skype

Google hangouts

rockstar games

fucking VPN sites

But they dont block amazon?

They also block

Inspect element?

Clear browsing history

Changing the desktop background

and a whole bunch of other shit

 

And also when you log on to any PC in our school it says you could face criminal charges for mis-using there fuckin' pentium dell optiplex desktops

 

True story:

In my elementary skool i logged into my personal gmail account to access a illegally scanned in book that the school had put on google drive

And then they yell at me for "copywriting the book"

 

Another true story:

I made a shitty chat website on google sites

They yell at me for "putting students private info online"

 

 

What was your school like?

Am i the only one who has a school that does this?

 

Thats all i wanted to say :3

I'm in the UK and some of ours are weird. We have access to things like Twiiter, Amazon, YouTube and Ebay but we're blocked from any forum even related to a video game, some sites are locked like Messenger yet I can access it on the school's wifi with the same login. We are also not supposed to use USB sticks anymore. Most of the teachers ignore this and tell us to back up our coursework on them cause the server is awful and corrupts stuff pretty often. 

[PCGuy_5960]

36 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would love to see this so called i3 7100K

That's not the only thing wrong with the specs. The OP is using a GT 730, which is slower than the 7100's iGPU.

Spoiler

 

 

[Sending_Help]

At school we can go on most things

[Mihle]

On my high school, you have your own computers, so nothing is locked down on them.
And also, they didnt block any internet sites or anything.

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Inversion said:

I'm in the UK and some of ours are weird. We have access to things like Twiiter, Amazon, YouTube and Ebay but we're blocked from any forum even related to a video game, some sites are locked like Messenger yet I can access it on the school's wifi with the same login. We are also not supposed to use USB sticks anymore. Most of the teachers ignore this and tell us to back up our coursework on them cause the server is awful and corrupts stuff pretty often. 

My school (in the UK as well):

Steam, origin, uplay, league, hearthstone, clash royale ect., blocked

Wargaming.net stuff, not blocked (so I've played WOWs in school before )

Facebook and Messenger, depends on what device you're using, if its a phone or tablet (i.e. apps), its most likely not blocked but if you're using a browser, its blocked 

Imgur, twitter, instagram, tumblr, snapchat ect. (aka all other social media bar FB), free access 

 

1 minute ago, Mihle said:

On my high school, you have your own computers, so nothing is locked down on them.
And also, they didnt block any internet sites or anything.

Starting from last year, we became a BYOD school .

The machines we (used) to use are all C2D/i3 (1st gen) era macbook pros and iMacs which all worked fine (actually not the iMacs as they were network booted where as the Mabooks were locally booting). We also have like 100 2nd gen iPads and also our tech department has about 20 haswell 4c/8t Xeons and m2000 quadro (if I remember correctly) workstations and 20 HP workstation laptops with 6700HQ and quadros...I think our school really does like our tech department (which is separate from the computing department)...

 

[TacoSenpai]

We had standard Pentium desktops mostly beige but toward my later high school years we were switching over to flat panels and black dells.  We had our desktops through those Novell Clients.  Of course they blocked social media sites of any kind, youtube, and literally anything with a bad word anywhere.  For example if I went to wikipedia and typed the word wine it would be blocked because of alcohol.   As stringent as it was I along with some people in a programming class were able to exploit alot of things.  We found that the up button would actually work around the novell client and get to the system files where we put game files like Halo, Starcraft, and N64 emulators we would play each other over the LAN.  As for the web stuff we would just use a proxy to get around it

[Dylanc1500]

Our school district was all on the same network and the network had many different drives that students used to save their work in. You could not save or install anything to the local drive as, at log off it would clean sweep. They had their own filter set up and I don't know what was used to determine whether something should be blocked. I would always bring a bootable ubuntu cd and delete clean sweep from the drive. 

 

The only thing I got in to trouble for was for making a "game" in notepad that would launch through command prompt (Saved locally). I had gone through it and at the end made it send a remote restart every time someone got to the end. Although I decided It would be funny to do it with a send all since it force all computers on the same local switches to restart. Of course with the fact they had clean sweep enabled they had no history as to what caused the shutdown. It wasn't until they figured out which computer had clean sweep removed that it was figured out. I didn't really get in trouble though as I told them after I got my diploma lol.

[IKnight]

Our school wifi simply 'recommends' not going on sites, but doesn't lock them. The school laptops are admin locked, but still pretty open. I know a workaround to install Steam and stuff so that's also nice. 

[Zodiark1593]

So long as we were on recess or lunch, my old school did not care what we did on the school iMacs. 

 

My early PC gaming days were on the old school iMacs actually.

[Phate.exe]

The way we used to do it was using either flash drives, or eventually running software from our network drive.

 

This would have been the early-mid 2000's, so think P4 Prescott Dell Optiplex era.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I've often wondering if you can get a school/library computer off of the school/library network so you're not restricted by things like that...

[kirashi]

16 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

By bringing them in on a thumb drive..

 

Teachers tried to get smart with remote software to manually log us out if they saw us playing games but having a text document open solved that issue really quick, computer would try to log out, hang on that, and leave everything up.

 

They were really salty at my school about this.

I remember my SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB drive had an auto launcher that would cause the Vision Remote Control software to hang up completely. And I don't mean just on my computer - the entire computer lab would need to be rebooted if the teach had remotely blanked or locked our screens. Sure, they were upset with it, but as far as I'm concerned, that's poor design on Vision's part, and not my responsibility to fix.  That flash drive was plugged in many-a-times when it had no reason to be.  

16 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

At my hellhole of a school

if you do simple ass stuff like

disable the big ass cursor on the chromebook settings

 

your a fucking "computer whiz"

XKCD comic number 37 dictates that I ask you what an "ass-cursor" might be...

https://xkcd.com/37/

[cbalderas88]

16 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Why do i always hear people say "we played games on the school computers"

 

And i never got how they got away with it

Because our school district fucking locks down the computers

They have blocked these features on the computers

Websites such as

The usual NSFW sites

Steam

Nvidia

Youtube

Ebay

Skype

Google hangouts

rockstar games

fucking VPN sites

But they dont block amazon?

They also block

Inspect element?

Clear browsing history

Changing the desktop background

and a whole bunch of other shit

 

And also when you log on to any PC in our school it says you could face criminal charges for mis-using there fuckin' pentium dell optiplex desktops

 

True story:

In my elementary skool i logged into my personal gmail account to access a illegally scanned in book that the school had put on google drive

And then they yell at me for "copywriting the book"

 

Another true story:

I made a shitty chat website on google sites

They yell at me for "putting students private info online"

 

 

What was your school like?

Am i the only one who has a school that does this?

 

Thats all i wanted to say :3

There's a way to just get admin rights with the computers. it's not that hard really.

 

Story time:

 I enjoyed playing csgo so much but my computer had stopped working so I had the school laptop. I was desperate to play some Matchmaking. I checked all over the internet to see how to get admin privileges and finally find a way. It was the best thing to happen to me. I was able to download steam and many other programs. When the school year was about to end I just deleted everything I downloaded and took the admin privileges off. 

 

Best time of my life

 

I would also tell people I was a hacker since I memorized how to get the admin account. I was the cool kid. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, cbalderas88 said:

There's a way to just get admin rights with the computers. it's not that hard really.

 

Story time:

 I enjoyed playing csgo so much but my computer had stopped working so I had the school laptop. I was desperate to play some Matchmaking. I checked all over the internet to see how to get admin privileges and finally find a way. It was the best thing to happen to me. I was able to download steam and many other programs. When the school year was about to end I just deleted everything I downloaded and took the admin privileges off. 

 

Best time of my life

 

I would also tell people I was a hacker since I memorized how to get the admin account. I was the cool kid. 

It's hilarious what kids think are hackers. There was one kid who tried to convince me that he was hacking the computer he was on. In reality, he was just messing around with command prompt and me being pretty much the techiest person in the building saw right through that...

[cbalderas88]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It's hilarious what kids think are hackers. There was one kid who tried to convince me that he was hacking the computer he was on. In reality, he was just messing around with command prompt and me being pretty much the techiest person in the building saw right through that...

I see kids do that too, like they think they're the shizz, but really aren't even doing much. There's many kids who are actually smart. Some know how to code a bit already. There's clubs like gaming, Computer science, and like computer troubleshooting clubs.

[ProjectBox153]

24 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It's hilarious what kids think are hackers. There was one kid who tried to convince me that he was hacking the computer he was on. In reality, he was just messing around with command prompt and me being pretty much the techiest person in the building saw right through that...

Kids who thought they were hacking when I was in school didn't even know how to get to a command prompt. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 hour ago, cbalderas88 said:

I see kids do that too, like they think they're the shizz, but really aren't even doing much. There's many kids who are actually smart. Some know how to code a bit already. There's clubs like gaming, Computer science, and like computer troubleshooting clubs.

That's pretty cool. I was in a coding class a while ago and since I had some previous knowledge(along with a few other people) we were able to help out quite a bit.

1 hour ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Kids who thought they were hacking when I was in school didn't even know how to get to a command prompt. 

Yeah, getting to a command prompt is pretty common knowledge today.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

5 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

That's not the only thing wrong with the specs. The OP is using a GT 730, which is slower than the 7100's iGPU.

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no its not

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It's hilarious what kids think are hackers. There was one kid who tried to convince me that he was hacking the computer he was on. In reality, he was just messing around with command prompt and me being pretty much the techiest person in the building saw right through that...

i was fucking around with inspect element doing shit like this

And i ended up getting banned from the computers for the rest of my 6th grade year

 

True story

 

and the funniest thing is they actually thought i was hacking

40+ year old people with  a doctorate degree though inspect element was FBI CIA watch dogs level hacking

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

i was fucking around with inspect element doing shit like this

And i ended up getting banned from the computers for the rest of my 6th grade year

 

True story

 

and the funniest thing is they actually thought i was hacking

40+ year old people with  a doctorate degree though inspect element was FBI CIA watch dogs level hacking

 

 

Is that Danny DeVito?