bet none of you have this luxury

[jcarkeys]

Our school has a lot of technology, but it is very poor network and stuff. You couldn't plug a laptop into an ethernet port and do anything. It would block you out. The people at our school treat us like high schoolers. (Well, we are) I have a Palm 3x though.

[ThePatriot]

My school has 32ram dells all right next to eachother and he refuses to LAN them(personally i dont think he can, i kno so much more than he ever will about computers) and a laptop to carry around would be a pain in the arse...what if u lose it? what if ubreak it? what if it gets stolen? to much responsibility...

[845]

If i get the partial scholarship to Iona Prep Laptops are required.

In my school there idea of computer class is putting you on Mavis Beacon

and making you type for 45 minutes. Now I can get 54 WPS I have a school record

[joeyjoe367]

54 WPM?!?!? BAH!

Hehe, I spend so much time on these forums and on AIM, MSN, and ICQ that my WPM has probably jumped up to about 70-80 depending on if I know what I'm typing or not.

But I personally think that having Laptops in class would be more of a distraction than an asset.

Like Jcarkeys, I have a PDA, a Handspring Visor actually. It's great, but I find myself playing Solitare All the time. I kinda wish that I'd learn to pay attention a bit more.

Note taking on my Visor isn't bad either, but sometimes a bit restrictive on the formatting, and slower than writing sometimes.

[Mojojojo]

hey, sorry for the late response...school calls ya know...yeah, i agree w/ some of the points made, but to tell you the truth, i'm probably not going to use this thing for much...but who know

[Failure]

We have good computers at my school but just one question.....If you were to set up a computer lab, would you install windows 98 on them!? No, I wouldn't....too unstable. The computers are loaded with junk, slow and bloated. Most are down every other day and the rest crash 4 times a night on average.

[Mojojojo]

actually, the ones each of us get, are not loaded w/ junk, nothing extra, just what they supplied, like word,powerpoint,imovie,the internet and some other stuff...and you can download stuff...its wireless connection...just needs charged every 4hrs or so

Eric

[MikeCouves]

Yeah our school is on welfare so it's really funny how bad the computers are. Haha when the mouse or something breaks the lab teacher missus tries to explain it so she sounds smart. Lol, then one of the dumb kids will pop up and say "Umm miss the mouse is plugged out". And she will be like "Uhh yeah I knew that". Haha, same situation as Failure, ours are really crappy.

I would bring a laptop to school, but you would get made fun of, because no one has one...not one person. All the teachers would be like "Out away that crazy black book away and take out your Social Studies textbook from 1894, or your going to write out the school rules!!!".

Our school is really "not high tech", they need to get up to speed. Wait a minute, rephrase that, "GET SOME FRIGGIN MONEY!!".

[jah871]

my school had a good amount of money until last year when they went overboard and bought a bunch of crap. we have these signs in the cafeteria on the ways saying nobody eats alone and some other junk. there prolly cost a couple hundred a piece. now were in debt. we dont get to go on any field trips except to washington D.C at the end of the year. its pretty funny..

[n1mr0d]

Originally posted by ThePatriot
My school has 32ram dells all right next to eachother and he refuses to LAN them(personally i dont think he can, i kno so much more than he ever will about computers) and a laptop to carry around would be a pain in the arse...what if u lose it? what if ubreak it? what if it gets stolen? to much responsibility...

Uh...you know more than he ever will about computers? wtf is a 32ram dell....i assume you are referring to old *** dells with only 32megs of ram. i don't see what you could do with [gee golly, you didn't tell us how many you had] dells that aren't networked....so you have x number of standalone machines?
at my school, we have wireless base stations everywhere....i have an apple iBook and most others in my class do, and for those that don't, they can borrow them or just use them during about half of my classes. i can browse the internet in the cafeteria, in the alcoves, in any class, at the athletic center, blah blah blah.

don't diss your sysadmin.....although i will say i know more than all of the IT people at our school, with the exception of one guy who knows c++, other than that, he doesn't know jack about most everything that goes on.

[ThePatriot]

N1mrod, i am so sorry, would u like me to go into some more detail?

He has 27 computers with 32megs of ram, 233mhz Pentium 2, with 13" monitors and a foolproof security system. The foolproof security system took me about 2 days to get the password, wasnt that hard, fool didnt even know about the swap file, its really simple, simply type in any password, its wrong, then you simply look in the swap file, do some minor editing, and it will compare the incorrect password you typed to the correct password, and its not even encrypted. He also thought removing the shortcuts from the accessories menu for the games, solitaire, minesweeper, freecell etc... would remove them from the computer, wrong again. Even with foolproof on simply open up MS DOS prompt and access the windows folder and run the program. O and in case any of you are wondering i can type 115WPM(i am online game person, got my typing skills there, not in the class room, those typing programs use such a pain in the *** way to type, the home row bull...do it your own way.)

[Mojojojo]

my school is sponsored by mac, which seams bad, but these laptops are probably their best creations, which is awesome.....but, like the first day everyone is like oo yeah they freeze left and right, but mine doesn't guess i got the good one

Eric

[n1mr0d]

Originally posted by ThePatriot
N1mrod, i am so sorry, would u like me to go into some more detail?

He has 27 computers with 32megs of ram, 233mhz Pentium 2, with 13" monitors and a foolproof security system. The foolproof security system took me about 2 days to get the password, wasnt that hard, fool didnt even know about the swap file, its really simple, simply type in any password, its wrong, then you simply look in the swap file, do some minor editing, and it will compare the incorrect password you typed to the correct password, and its not even encrypted. He also thought removing the shortcuts from the accessories menu for the games, solitaire, minesweeper, freecell etc... would remove them from the computer, wrong again. Even with foolproof on simply open up MS DOS prompt and access the windows folder and run the program. O and in case any of you are wondering i can type 115WPM(i am online game person, got my typing skills there, not in the class room, those typing programs use such a pain in the *** way to type, the home row bull...do it your own way.)

yeah that helps....and yes our school uses foolproof, all you have to do to hack it is boot up in safe mode, download a hex editor, and the password is stored in plaintext in the swapfile....simple as pie.

[the JoKeR]

Originally posted by n1mr0d


yeah that helps....and yes our school uses foolproof, all you have to do to hack it is boot up in safe mode, download a hex editor, and the password is stored in plaintext in the swapfile....simple as pie.

No matter how good the security, there's always people that are three steps ahead looking for a way in, and they upgrade their skills faster than schools/businesses upgrade their defenses. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. And get hacked anyway!

[n1mr0d]

Originally posted by the JoKeR


No matter how good the security, there's always people that are three steps ahead looking for a way in, and they upgrade their skills faster than schools/businesses upgrade their defenses. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. And get hacked anyway!

Yes and the sad thing is that all of our tech department is messed up. We have two women who are 'mac people' and basically if something goes wrong, restart it. If that doesn't work, then the computer gets turned off The guy in our tech department knows a little bit, but definitely not sysadmin knowledge. He's a freak though, he's obsessed with Larry Bird and always has to make some stupid mnemonic device that involves the number 33.