So I was playing games at school...

[col]

I'm glad I have Internet connection at my home

Btw, isn't that kind of monitoring easy to bypass if one changes proxy server used by the browser to some third-party server? I mean, isn't it possible that the connection to the proxy is encrypted and after that the connection would proceed unencrypted to the actual site requested by the user?

All those options are disabled in browser

 

[WildFire]

I'm on at school.

Their (librarians) about 30 feet from me.

Sad really.

 

[bobgote]

We have very strict rules in my college (I'm IT Manager). No one other than tech is allowed to install anything. Each computer has a setup routine that will detect any files other than allowed ones. We can monitor any computer. Each website visited is logged against the student on the central server (no deleting your history here). Logging on as someone else results in suspension from college. etc etc etc.

I get to ban/suspend people too

we have the same thing with installing programs at uni (however i installed jEdit once and it seemed to work - they probably knew but didn't care), but do you take issues if people are looking up forums etc at college?

We also have some computers that you can't look up webmail on, which sucks because it is a useful backup system and a good way to keep up to date with files (if you don't use CVS). I could change the proxy setting to let me use it, but it's too much effort.

 

[crystal]

All those options are disabled in browser

Well, is installing new browsers prevented in some way?

 

[Dell19]

No one other than tech is allowed to install anything.

That might be the answer...

 

[Thrawn]

This reminds me of what we did last year in the halls of residence I was living in at uni. Apparently, the management part of uni runs was running on a different proxy server for net access, and it was competely free for management students. (Unlike the $NZ0.17 per mB we were paying.)

One of the guys on my floor found this out, and found out what proxy server they were using, and we started using it. For some reason, it didn't work in ie, but did in Opera. I don't know how much it would have cost us going by the normal connection, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't over $NZ10,000.

We weren't caught of course, but we also found out that apparently some people did this last year, and weren't caught either.

 

[Dell19]

My University provides access for free and apparently we all have private ips so it seems we can largely do whatever we want... Recently got an email that someone had downloaded a Microsoft file and asking people to delete it but the email implied that they had no way of actually findingwho had the file...

 

[lord_yoshi]

Our labs are ran by the ComSci Student Group... so, we follow our own rules (games unless the lab is full!)

 

[FireBall]

Yep, well, we have a few rules... but really, who follows those things anyways? As logn as you don't go onto disriminitory, pornographic or abusive sites, you're fine.

 

[LOVE_Magiska]

We've also played the excellent finish game Liero a lot.

Ah yes, Liero! I and a friend used to spend entire lessons playing that. Oh, those were the days

Oh, and our computer tech at school is a fat man with a large beard that installs porn on the computers

 

[Padma]

[old grandfatherly voice]In my days at school, we don't even have computers! Spoilt brats... [/old grandfatherly voice]

Hey! That's *MY* line!



(Actually in my Senior year in High School, we *did* get a single terminal hookup to a mainframe at a college in another town. Cutting Edge!)

Edit: On topic, it sounds like col is running the IT service here at USSTRATCOM!

(We have the same "problems" - you cannot install anything, you have no access to your internet options/history/etc. Everything you do can and WILL be traced to you....)

 

[Ballazic]

I am never going to break the rules in the lab.

 

[nonconformist]

Oh, and our computer tech at school is a fat man with a large beard

That'sour computer tech as well

The web filter banned me from going onto The Onion because it's an "alternative journal"

 

[Chukchi Husky]

At school, a new network was installed with loads of blocks, but some kids managed to pass that and access porn.
It appeared on the front page of the local paper (with the head smiling )
Once in IT everyone was playing games. Our "IT Technician" is an idiot, he ripped a computer apart while on to replace a floppy drive, then slammed it together .

 

[GeZe]

Ha, in my school, they disabled the menu in widows explorer that has the up button. I just went 'veiw' then 'go up one level' and got access to the actual main server files and programs. "Oops, I didn't mean to press delete :devil2: "

One day a wev address was left on the white board in the computer room so I remembered it and went to it at who. It was the login page for "Intergrade Pro" , the schools grading program. Too bad my teacher hadn't changed her password from her name. Though I didn't change any marks, I want to that site whenever I wasn't certain what mark I got and needed to check.

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

Lol one day(back in the "good" ol' mac lab days) at school my teacher decided to take control of my computer and turn up the sound on the microphone that was built in to the monitor so the whole class could hear the conversation I was having with my friend. We responded by speaking loudly into the microphone that the teacher was a bedwetter, the teacher tried to cover the speakers and nearly pushed her computer of her desk. Never tried it again strangely...

 

[PHSikes]

Quote:
Originally Posted by XIII
[old grandfatherly voice]In my days at school, we don't even have computers! Spoilt brats... [/old grandfatherly voice]

Hey! That's *MY* line!



(Actually in my Senior year in High School, we *did* get a single terminal hookup to a mainframe at a college in another town. Cutting Edge!)

Edit: On topic, it sounds like col is running the IT service here at USSTRATCOM!

(We have the same "problems" - you cannot install anything, you have no access to your internet options/history/etc. Everything you do can and WILL be traced to you....)

I took CompSci twice, the first time with Commodore PET/CBM's and the second because they upgraded to Apple IIe's (16k mem).

 

[ManOfMiracles]

Ah, yes...the not-so-good old days. When I was a freshman my school had one Apple computer on a wheeled cart. Use was granted by the algebra teacher (who taught programming at a community college). The student (only one allowed at a time!) had to move the cart out to the hall right outside the main office and work there.

We did get a computer lab and programming classes before I graduated. We could play games in class if all classwork was done. Of course we were limited to games that would fit on a 5-1/4" floppy, the computers were not networked together, and we hadn't even heard of the internet...

 

[Immortal]

[old grandfatherly voice]In my days at school, we don't even have computers! Spoilt brats... [/old grandfatherly voice]

my junior high ran with the astoundingly high tech program known as turtle

 

[Volum]

I sometimes have to help our it guy with problems, i find it quite sad actually....