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Biggles

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School computer admins...such genius
« on: May 16, 2005, 10:52:06 PM »
About a month ago a half dozen kids at my high school (CASHS) got computer priveliges limited because they were caught after installing Firefox   :10:   on the school computers...the principal mentioned it during an assembly:

Quote from: "Mr.Widman"
but our tech staff is great they caught them right away...


Errr most of them had had it since the beginning of the year...about 9 months ago? :rofl:

They should have given them cookies for installing Firefox and followed their example   :beers:

Has your school IT staff done stupid stuff?
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TekieB

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School computer admins...such genius
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2005, 06:32:32 AM »
Oh don't get me started on stupid IT stuff...

we got yelled at/punished for installing firefox...manely cause all IE traffic ran through a non transparent proxy server (ala you had to manualy enter an IP) so there was some filtering system. Yet port 80 was wide open on the firewall/gateway...enough said.

They also let the students have full cmd.exe access (and you know how wanna be script kiddies can be) with the "oh i'm pinging you!" type BS.

I could go on for days like thinking a single 1g fibre trunk could power 100 comps and at least 20 VOIP phones (they're wrong) and that java doesn't run well on windows
 
i'm done for now
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Offline Pride

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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2005, 06:51:56 AM »
are you one of the dozen?
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TekieB

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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2005, 10:09:15 AM »
I didn't get caught, yet was the one who discovered it
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2005, 03:00:13 PM »
no USB removeable media (thumbdrive or whatever you like to call it) on a MAC.  

using one on a PC is fine but not on MACs....  this was instituted for the fear of a virus on a mac...
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TekieB

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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2005, 03:23:03 PM »
Quote from: "VonDouche"
no USB removeable media (thumbdrive or whatever you like to call it) on a MAC.  

using one on a PC is fine but not on MACs....  this was instituted for the fear of a virus on a mac...


buy and ipod and put live linux on it and reboot them in target disk mode :D

speaking of I can connect mine on firewire but NOT on usb, when asked I was told that my iPod didn't count as a thumbdrive because I could put programs on it. Yet I could have a 4gb thumb drive and be fine
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