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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Juju on August 23, 2011, 04:19:26 pm

Title: FAIL from my school
Post by: Juju on August 23, 2011, 04:19:26 pm: My school decided to switch to Windows 7 in one of its computer labs. Somehow it fails detecting free space correctly on the Novell shared drives. (The bug wasn't there in XP.) Also the Infos Novell tab reports negative used and free space.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Adriweb on August 23, 2011, 04:20:06 pm: Lulz 16.0 To ;)
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 23, 2011, 04:20:44 pm: That's a lot of space left! O.O

Also ugh Novell... I have bad memories of it in Cegep. When the network was down we couldnt even use any computer in the multimedia labs...
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Juju on August 23, 2011, 04:26:01 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on August 23, 2011, 04:20:44 pm
That's a lot of space left! O.O

Also ugh Novell... I have bad memories of it in Cegep. When the network was down we couldnt even use any computer in the multimedia labs...
My cegep has the option to login as the Windows user (which is always the same) instead of logging in as a Novell user.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: TIfanx1999 on August 23, 2011, 04:27:07 pm: All your space are belong to win 7. :P
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 23, 2011, 05:05:19 pm: Quote from: Juju on August 23, 2011, 04:26:01 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on August 23, 2011, 04:20:44 pm
That's a lot of space left! O.O

Also ugh Novell... I have bad memories of it in Cegep. When the network was down we couldnt even use any computer in the multimedia labs...
My cegep has the option to login as the Windows user (which is always the same) instead of logging in as a Novell user.
That's good at least. In our case we were completely screwed. Actually if I remember we could still use the Mac computers, though.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Freyaday on August 24, 2011, 10:53:52 pm: /me shoots Novell
j/k/me shoots Websense for being too damn good at their jobs instead
(The Category Vehicles is Blocked)
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 25, 2011, 12:03:01 am: At school, they blocked .zip files so it gave 403 forbidden, but .exe files would download fine.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 25, 2011, 12:05:44 am: XD epic fail school and my school computers didnt have adobe or java and our teacher wanted us to play (educational) flash games!

Half the stuff we do in computer class is type up docements??? what does that have to do with coputers?
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Post by: Hayleia on August 25, 2011, 03:58:08 am: They should have done this
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: imo_inx on August 25, 2011, 08:46:48 am: Agreed. Our school is screwed. We only have 17.7 GB left on our SERVER! How???
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Yeong on August 25, 2011, 09:32:44 am: Quote from: iVenom on August 25, 2011, 08:46:48 am
Agreed. Our school is screwed. We only have 17.7 GB left on our SERVER! How???
lol
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: BlakPilar on August 25, 2011, 09:38:26 am: My school prides itself in blocking the command prompt.
Spoiler For the secret:
They don't know about batch files.

EDIT: My friend's mom works at the school. He stayed after in the tech department one day waiting for her. They (the tech department) didn't know what an IP address was.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 25, 2011, 09:41:14 am: LOL wow fail my school does not block anything though
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: XVicarious on August 25, 2011, 10:39:15 am: A college I visited sent out a letter, and it was addressed to me and everything. When I opened it it said "Dear Julie". Its funny because my name is Brian and I'm male :|

My school now fails because they use Macs, their webfilter can be gotten around easy, in the library Terminal is accessible (I use it to SSH to my computers at home to bypass the filters even more, since X11 is installed on the *shudder*Macs.)
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: FinaleTI on August 25, 2011, 11:52:10 am: Quote from: BlakPilar on August 25, 2011, 09:38:26 am
My school prides itself in blocking the command prompt.
Spoiler For the secret:
They don't know about batch files.
My school is the same, except they left Windows Powershell in the Start Menu. :P
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 25, 2011, 11:53:17 am: wut these schools are stupid these days
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Yeong on August 25, 2011, 12:46:46 pm: I can access to whole control panel if I press the button right at start-up screen XD
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Juju on August 25, 2011, 12:59:20 pm: Haha I love finding workarounds, meaning their computers are less secure than they thought...
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: FinaleTI on August 25, 2011, 01:18:56 pm: It's also funny to laugh at how silly the filters are sometimes. For instance, xkcd is blocked. The reason? The filter classified the site as "adult.games". Of course, we can just open up Google Translate, and get to xkcd that way. :P
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Eeems on August 25, 2011, 01:53:22 pm: Quote from: BlakPilar on August 25, 2011, 09:38:26 am
My school prides itself in blocking the command prompt.
Spoiler For the secret:
They don't know about batch files.

EDIT: My friend's mom works at the school. He stayed after in the tech department one day waiting for her. They (the tech department) didn't know what an IP address was.
My old school blocked it too. My secret, <windows key>-r, c, m, d, enter
They also had a huge list of blocked sites, but the easiest way to get around the web-filter was to use ssl >.<
Our schools system was so full of security holes I'm surprised it only went down twice in 3 years
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: JustCause on August 25, 2011, 03:38:33 pm: I love our local library. They've got a locked-down copy of Firefox that can only browse the catalog, and I tried everything to get around it. They also took damn near everything out of the Start Menu...but they left Printer and Fax Settings.

All you have to do is just type a URL into the path box! :P
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: annoyingcalc on August 25, 2011, 03:50:19 pm: do they have calculator in the menu if so then goto the help screen and then right click the bar on top it should say jump to url and wella there you go
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: JustCause on August 25, 2011, 03:58:13 pm: Quote from: annoyingorange on August 25, 2011, 03:50:19 pm
do they have calculator in the menu if so then goto the help screen and then right click the bar on top it should say jump to url and wella there you go
Huh. I never knew about that. Thanks!
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Freyaday on August 25, 2011, 09:20:05 pm: Doesn't work in 7, although there IS a link to the Internet in the help file anyway....
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 26, 2011, 12:57:40 am: My school has cmd enabled, but they block a lot of commands. They also block the windows key, idk why.

When my district upgraded to '7, the IT department took the easy route and had all the computers boot off a network drive. I soon discovered that I could change the boot order in the BIOS (which they left open btw) and make the computers start XP again. So I did that a few computers each day, and some tech ppl fixed it but I just changed more until I got caught. I did it partly so I could play minecraft, as the graphics drivers with windows 7 did not support opengl D: .
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Netham45 on September 14, 2011, 02:30:30 am: Booting an entire lab of 7 PCs off of the network sounds awful. D:

Also, juju, that's what your school gets for using software from the late 90's on Windows 7. :P
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: Juju on September 15, 2011, 11:59:33 am: Quote from: Netham45 on September 14, 2011, 02:30:30 am
Booting an entire lab of 7 PCs off of the network sounds awful. D:
They don't. They are using ghosts.
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2011, 04:31:45 pm: On a computer-related note, you have no idea what they did to some computers last night at Juju's school during a party with his class O.O
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: JoeyBelgier on September 15, 2011, 04:38:38 pm: Quote from: t0xic_kitt3n on August 26, 2011, 12:57:40 am
So I did that a few computers each day, and some tech ppl fixed it but I just changed more until I got caught.

Like a baws :D What did they say?
Title: Re: FAIL from my school
Post by: DrDnar on September 15, 2011, 08:22:52 pm: My high school still uses QuickBASIC (last I checked, anyway) for their intro to programming course. They somehow gutted the command prompt so that any command entered wouldn't actually execute, and blocked batch files, but there's a fun QB program you can write . . .
Code: [Select]
DO INPUT FOO$ SHELL FOO$ LOOP
(They also didn't block Windows Script Host scripts.)