I really hate ours. Our high school is one of the most technologically updated ones (in terms of our computers) in the area, but our fucking administrators are idiots. My first major gripe was Bess. It's blocked so many of our favorite sites..me and my friend had to write proxy servers to run on our home computers while we're in school just to get to the pages. But the whole ordeal is still a big hassle. I also hate the fucking stupidity level of these people.. Now you're all aware of Fortres right? Last year I took a Web Design class just to recieve an easy A+, but I hated my fucking fat woman teacher. She told everyone she was in the "biz" for 15 years, but it was obvious she still didn't seem to know anything about computers. One time I was bored and had finished all the lame web assignments for the day, and since talking was a no-no in that piece of shit class, I opened up WinPopUp to talk to some people across the room. Well, she saw me using it (should have been NO big deal), and said "What are you doing?". I said "I'm just using WinPopup". She nods, and the next day she calls me to her desk and tells me to goto to one of the vice principal's office (this guy's a REAL prick). I go, and what I get is a shit loud of screaming at my face about how I could have damaged the network and brought the whole thing down by using a program I shouldn't have, or I could have broken one of the computers. Now tell me, since WHEN THE FUCK CAN WINPOPUP DESTROY A COMPUTER or single-handedly fuck over an entire school network? Another funny thing in that class was when my friend decided to play a HARMLESS joke. He made a simple HTML page saying "hax0red." in a font size of 5. Then he simply hit F11 to maximize the window, making it fullscreen. Well the day after, we come in and he gets sent to vice principal, and almost was banned from using computers in the school permanently, for "hacking the computer network." Supposedly, our gifted teacher of 15 years DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO CLOSE A FUCKING WEBPAGE. It reportedly took her _3 hours_ to figure out how to close it. Let's see, there are only a trillion ways to close a window..simply hitting F11, ALT+F4, ctrl+alt+delete, ALT+TAB to lose focus, ALT+X, etc... But noooo, she can't do something that fucking simple, so she says he hacked the network. It's really simple: school adult figures are fucking morons. Luckily our computer science teacher who we've had for the last 4 years is really smart and leniant on it all. She doesn't care what we do because she know's we're all intelligent and responsible, and most importantly, knows her fucking shit. [edited by - sporty on April 22, 2002 3:26:40 PM]

Mwa, the trick is easy here. Our comp-sci teachers knew nothing, and our sys-admins knew nothing. Solution? Step to the local section-direction, and work for them. When something needs to be done on the teaching-computers, dont go to comp-sci teachers, but head straight to the direction or the ICT-coordinator. When the sys-admins make trouble, go straight to the Rector, since he is the only one above you.

After a while, our comp-sci teacher left school (and got replaced by a newbie who allready knows our position), we got our own sys-admin dude here (also a newbie, but he knows us and lets us help), and whenever there is a prob with something, either the ICQ-coordinator or our own local sys-admin can make sure that the real administrators get their asses in gear. When that fails, oh well, our cute little group goes to the rector again, aided by the section-direction... Works like a charm ^_^

You are definately not the only one in this position, Hotmail is banned at my school because

"We don''t want that much E-mail stored on our computers, the problem is when you download E-mail it is permanently stored on the hard disk unless you delete it, which most people will forget to do"

Dumbass.


"Computer games don''t affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we''d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989

Not trying to be a prick myself, but maybe you should just avoid trying to play harmless jokes and using chat programs when your meant to be doing work. I''m not trying to be annoying, but there is just some things you should just not do around people like this.

By the way, why don''t you just bring the guy the documentation on Winpopup or something? Get your parent in or something.

Well, I had the chance to take a class in computers at school, but I took a look at the teacher and said "Forget it."

A skinny little gay weiner like him can''t do anything but annoy me.

It was an easy class, from what I could tell. All they were doing was typing some HTML (not learning, typing) and putting together some of their own webpages on iMacs with Photoshop and everything. Seems that class had the second highest dropout rate of any other course there.

Now, my new school apparently is offering 3 computer classes:

Computers 1
Computers 2
Adv. Computers

I would love to see how "advanced" their Advanced Computers course is. Not likely that they''re teaching ASM or something.

The new teacher seems okay, though.

Man we musta got lucky in my HS. Our CS teacher was awesome. Freshman year, BASIC class. Our teacher could care less if you played games, granted you did your work. This ultimately resulted in about 45 minutes into the class "ok im starting up a quake game (4yrs ago) everyon join" we''d have the whole class playing a 16-plyr game of quake by the end of the class period. Oh what great fun.

Sophomore year, C++ class. About 11 of us took the class, and stayed in it for the whole year. This resulted in us sharing knowledge of how to get our c++ programs done, resulting in getting our assignments done even quicker, as you can imagine by the end of the semester, we learned quake like the back of our hands.

Junior year, no new CS courses available, so our little group of friends decided to do "independent study" ranging from web stuff to programming stuff. This resulted in absolute do-nothing-at-all class. It was great. I made my first game ever this year though so it wasnt a total loss.

Senior year, basically a repeat of junior year. Made another game. Discovered a magnificent game called CS. played CS ALOT.

Intermitintly there was a few strange events that occured. basically they stored everyones private data on one single drive on the network. Students only had access to there indiviual folders, but teachers had access to them all. You can only guess how much fun we had when we figured out some teachers password. Ahhhh so much fun.

And then there was the hiding files on the network drive. by using extended ascii folder names. took them a while to figure how that stuff worked.

and then there was modifying the schools newspaper files... oooo it was funny when they actually printed the articles we edited...

and throughout this whole time we were never even accused of doing anything malicious on the schools network. basically, our CS teacher figured we knew more about computers that the sys admin, and repeated asked for our help first when needing a computer fixed / bug found in coding, etc... it was great fun.

man thats a long ramble
fight back... do something that would take them a while to fix or figure out... just make sure you dont get caught :-)
there are probably a number of ways to do this... just find one
-Vulcan