quote:Original post by Senses777
er herm... what is the con/con crash? .sen

If you try to open a file called "c:\con\con" under some versions of Windows, you get a blue screen. There''s a patch available.

this is a great thread. I want to hear more retarted things teachers do.

Our CS teacher is nice and our computers are semi-restrictive. They have a few icons on the desktop, we can use the internet as we wish most of the time (sometimes they unhook the internet from the network), but the computers suck. They run win95 on a p1 200mhz with 32mb RAM. Lately half the class has been playing some of those cheap web based games and our teacher says "gentlemen (26 people, all boys), you shouldn''t be on the internet" and gives a little smile. Of course, people continue playing.

I think she doesn''t really care about what we do as long as we get our work done. I haven''t ran into any extremely stupid responses from any of the teachers in the school regarding computers. None of them know much, but at least I don''t get the retarded excuses on why I shouldn''t be doing so and so. The librarian sort of annoys me since she''s clueless what an FTP server is (when I ask her to turn on the internet so I can upload an assignment home), but she''s figured out that I know what I''m talking about so I usually ask and she just says sure and flips the switch.

I guess all that stuff is pretty good in my school.. no one tries to exploit the computers so they don''t have all that much protection other than not being able to write to the C drive and deep-freeze (restores the C drive every reboot). There''s a few occassional cases of them being annoying but it''s all good.

Still, I envy you people who can have UT or CS lan parties in your CS classes There''s no way something like that can happen here.

My cheap school didn''t have a computer class. However, my physics class had some old 486''s, and we would play scorched earth Oh, and this was last year.

One of my friends had an application called ''killme'' in his folder, the icon for which was the radioactive symbol. The IT teacher wondered what this was, and loaded it up. The computer crashed. Instead of asking my friend what this program was, why it was kalled killme, and why it had just ''killed'' a computer, he went and opened it on another computer. That computer also crashed. Surely he now has a reason to believe this program is malicious. So, armed with this information, he goes and opens it on a third computer, then a fourth... this guy must be some sort of genious. Anyway, the next day, my friend is in serious trouble for knackering four computers. Hmmm....

There''s another teacher at our school who enjoys just turning off computers if he doesn''t like what you are doing. "''Is that a webpage?'' *click*". It wouldn''t exactly take a massive training budget to teach the fool not to do this, but still he continues despite the tech dude telling him not to.

And now I''m stressed because I learned the only competent IT teacher who was going to teach the computing course in college just left for a better job.