I forgot about this, a brief story;

I'm sitting at school with a good friend of mine. He's going through his programming class homework and I'm finishing off Xenocide. Anyways, he finds a certain sheet, gives a brief laugh, hands it to me :

Points to a line on the page

"Thought you should read this"

I look over the page. Guidelines for computer use at his school. List seems pretty normal 'If you notice damage on a computer, immediately point it out or you will be blamed."

So on and so forth.

Second last paragragh, list of reasons you can get kicked out of school. Last reason is defined as 'Hacking'.

I laugh briefly -- who's gonna hack in a high school Flash programming course ?

'What Hacking is'

I don't remember everything from the list, but it included such hacking crimes as :

Downloading software to run MP3s
Downloading MP3s
Using the Internet for reasons other than immediate school work

And finally, the last one in the list, the perfect one :

Changing the windows wall paper.

Yes, boys and girls, you too can be a hacker ! Just change your windows wallpaper and you ARE A HACKER ! U R A L33T #4XX0R* !

I'm gonna get that sheet off him and scan it next tuesday.

-Spiderdrake, of Everthorn
"In my heart, there is the Opera of the Storm"

*=Apologies to Gothmog for making little Timmy cry

...they had everything locked up (ie right click on the start button didnt work, no icons on the desktop etc) on windows NT, simply changing the background or opening windows explorer would get you in a heap of trouble. of all the protection, they still didnt work out how to stop us using macros from microsoft access to change info in .ini files and run programs etc lol

My school is just as uptight. I was banned from the computers for a marking period because I tried to fix a networking problem that one of the computers had.

Never try to be nice, it will only get you in trouble!

Hehe, my junior high was fun though. It was DOS-only computers, and we used text menus created through .BAT files to get around. We would always change the menus around, so people would see funny messages anytime they loaded the menus. So the computer wizard (ha! yeah, right) of the school made all the files read-only. We used attrib He 'deleted' attrib. However, we noticed a new file with his name (chuck) and ran it - It was attrib w/ a new file name . Next he got rid of chuck so there was no attrib file in existance on the computer - we brought it in on floppies

I've noticed that the sysops at schools aren't really that smart (or they'd be working somewhere else).

But, there are a few who know what they're doing...

They just like all the toys to play with, and the 2 months off with pay

--Mavfin

--MavFin

The problem is that DOS and Windows are POC's that have no decent protection for anything.

A friend and I would often simply type "echo off" at the DOS prompt, followed by cls, and watch all the computer-illiterate (DAMN I hope i spelled that right) get confused at the single blinking cursor...

Cyrbyrys

And shepherds we shall be; for Thee my Lord for Thee. Power hath descendeth forth from Thy hand; and and our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee; and teeming with souls shall it ever be...

I would have been in the slammer for good. Back in the Stone Age, we had an Interdata 7/16 with 5 terminals, 3 teletype, 2 actual CRT's. Being that there was no protection of other user spaces to speak of, you could easily mess with other people's work. I've never had the heart to do anything really malicious, but I did have fun getting other people's terminals to print messages, and I would pretend to be the computer talking to them. It was all fun and games until this one guy took it too seriously, and actually thought the computer was threatening to shock him if he didn't stop pounding the keys so hard. He freaked, and ran into the bathroom crying, and even though I apologized and explained that it was me, he refused to ever touch the terminals again.