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  1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

    This teacher is making me use Chrome, automatic worst teacher

    Friday, 22-Feb-13 17:22:37 UTC from web
    1. Matt Matt

      @redenchilada At least they don't make you use IE. The technicians here actually look in student computers and remotely remove foreign web browsers.

      Friday, 22-Feb-13 17:25:28 UTC from web
      1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

        @zeldatra You can pretty much install whatever you want on school computers here (I had Identicurse on the ones I used toward the end of junior year, and a lot of kids put VBA or ZSNES on their drives) but I keep Firefox on a USB drive so I'm not saving login credentials to a place where others could theoretically get to it.

        Friday, 22-Feb-13 17:28:28 UTC from web
        1. Matt Matt

          @redenchilada Lucky. Things are looking up, kids are finding all sorts of ways to get around the school firewalls. Someone even created a folder in the shared staff drive for program smuggling.

          Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:20:04 UTC from web
          1. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

            @zeldatra Is that really a godd thing?...

            Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:21:32 UTC from web
            1. Matt Matt

              @projectrainbowdash Yep.

              Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:22:41 UTC from web
          2. Matt Matt

            @zeldatra @redenchilada (The folder is called "Enhanced Entertainment", so the administrators think it belongs to some teacher and the haven't touched it.)

            Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:22:13 UTC from web
            1. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

              @zeldatra XD That is a very official looking name

              Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:22:47 UTC from web
          3. Scribus Scribus

            @zeldatra Back at my high school, the computers had Explorer disabled so we couldn't open any drives or get to any files without going through an approved program first. Except Internet Explorer was approved, and we learned that you can point it towards local addresses and just browse files and fire up emulators through it. #

            Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:24:06 UTC from web
            1. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

              @scribus Derp

              Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:24:44 UTC from web
            2. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

              @scribus Teachers are a bit dumb

              Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:25:04 UTC from web
              1. Scribus Scribus

                @projectrainbowdash Better still? The internet censorship password was set to the school's street address. That was figured out quickly.

                Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:25:53 UTC from web
            3. Matt Matt

              @scribus This school used to have almost no computer restrictions. Then some wise guy tried to crash the grade system using a command prompt and so they disabled permissions for like, everything. We can't even change our desktop background anymore.

              Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:26:18 UTC from web
              1. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

                @zeldatra @scribus Welp, that escalated quickly

                Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:26:50 UTC from web
                1. Scribus Scribus

                  @projectrainbowdash Furthermore, the firewall had blocked porn and stuff like that, but only in English, so a lot of Mexican sex sites got a lot of hits from our computer lab.

                  Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:27:45 UTC from web
                  1. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

                    @scribus :3 I thought so

                    Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:28:23 UTC from web
                  2. Project Rainbow Dash Project Rainbow Dash

                    @scribus ITs like that at school, if its not english it ain't blocked

                    Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:29:12 UTC from web
                  3. Matt Matt

                    @scribus I remember when these computers weren't a freaking burden to use.

                    Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:30:24 UTC from web
              2. Scribus Scribus

                @zeldatra Dang, harsh. Gotta admit, though, the CLI sure does look scurry. D:

                Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:27:05 UTC from web
                1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                  @scribus $ rm -rf /home/scribus

                  Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:28:52 UTC from web
                  1. Scribus Scribus

                    @bitshift Let's put -v in there, too. I like to watch the text scroll by.

                    Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:36:58 UTC from web
                    1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                      @scribus I like your thinking. (Just don't do it on a framebuffer console, since that noticeably slows the process due to text printing being actually kinda slow on those.)

                      Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:10:03 UTC from web
                    2. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                      @scribus Also, if your ~ is actually /home/scribus, that's pretty neat. :D

                      Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:10:37 UTC from web
                      1. Scribus Scribus

                        @bitshift It is not, sadly.

                        Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:22:11 UTC from web
                        1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                          @scribus Silly Scribus. Why won't you embrace your scribosity?

                          Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:24:17 UTC from web
                          1. Scribus Scribus

                            @bitshift I like the "first initial/last name" username scheme. It'd be scaballus, except I don't really like the "scab" part of that upon having typed it... <.<

                            Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:30:36 UTC from web
                            1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                              @scribus scribusc sounds okay, but also sounds like a taxonomic category.

                              Friday, 22-Feb-13 19:31:46 UTC from web
              3. Cloud Kicker Cloud Kicker

                @zeldatra Sounds like you have to bash the head in of the person who tried to crash the grade system

                Friday, 22-Feb-13 18:27:07 UTC from web