School computer - so strict!!

[Xendance]

I was today doing my work on French street culture. I was on the BBC website, and it uses flash to show you its content. Since I was copying what was on the flash bit onto a word document and putting it into my own words, I noticed something: the flash site closed.

Now its time for my conclusion.
Most internet games are built with flash. Any student playing on these games and not doing their work would usually switch to another screen when their teacher walks over, and prevents him/her from seeing what they are doing.
Now, today I was switching between the two. I reckon what ever is doing it thinks what I am on is a game (which infact is not) and closes me off it.

How awsome, yet annoying.
Your views?

 

[Kyorisu]

Do you know what system they use ie Novell? When I went to highschool I had a logon script that would disable the monitoring service, by doing so all my actions where recorded as the previous person on the machine. From their point of view a bunch of computer illiterate people where bringing down their network, killing switches, mass printing at not cost, making the projectors randomly display "Penis" in huge text during lessons etc.

Also true story.

Jakob: Oh, and the best part.

Jakob: Lets go back to Vanner in his office examining my iPod.

Kyorisu: The good man can giveth and the good man can also taketh away.

Jakob: Bowen walks in. We briefly discuss Vanilla Coke, and Vanner tells me to focus and take it seriously.

Jakob: He finda folder called Nethack.

Jakob: And he's like "Aha! What is this?"

Jakob: Opens it, command prompt comes up.

Jakob: "Who are you?"

Kyorisu: Not this again.

Jakob: PVANNER

Jakob: "Please select a race, gender, blah blah, or select your own."

Jakob: He types in y for select your own, quite confused at this point because what kind of hacking tool is this?

Jakob: You are PVANNER the neutral female Tourist.

Jakob: Bowen and I burst out laughing.

 

[Jintor]

Eh. The DET blocks almost everything from school nowdays, including most http network tunnels, and noone's been bothered yet to set up a proxy from home.

Any advice?

 

[Doppelgofer]

I was today doing my work on French street culture.

i deeply dislike the french

well i think this thread is about done now i've had my say

oh shit wait i meant...

 

[Kyorisu]

Eh. The DET blocks almost everything from school nowdays, including most http network tunnels, and noone's been bothered yet to set up a proxy from home.

Any advice?

Get a rig running at home using linux preferably then you can setup hacky things like MSN via IRC. If your ips dynamic use a service like no-ip and go from there. Plenty of tutorials floating around.

 

[mindless_moder]

you can either try setting up a proxy from your pc at home and then copy the ip into the browser or access sites through their ip address by pinging them. you can gain dos access by saving command.com in a notepad file and renaming it to .bat .

 

[Krynn72]

Wait, is it software thats kicking you off, or the teacher? How would other people be able to play flash games in a different browser when you cant even view BBC?

 

[Adabiviak]

Is this a recurring problem, or something you could have the administrator take care of, as apparently it's a legit research need? Is this something you could paste out of from home? Is the possibility of getting caught bypassing administrative lockdown worth it?

 

[CyberPitz]

I remember being on the Mac computers at school, and I would download Rezedit, and edit the files for Foolproof, so it couldn't load up....thus giving me freedom. I got suspended for that act...or maybe it was telling 5 other kids how to do it is what got me busted. OH WELL!

 

[Bad^Hat]

When I was doing a puter course at Polytech here, a friend and I would use the network to LAN up Secret of Mana 2 on ZSNES. Good times, before we got caught.

 

[OmegaX]

Speaking of strict schools, today our school decided to block Wikipedia. Nearly everyone uses this sites when they do research, and alot of people are pissed off... including teachers.

 

[xcellerate]

My school's filter wouldn't let me look at movie times because it was considered "entertainment" and less strange was that I couldn't go to a local car garage's website...the company name is/was Barely Legal Performance, and since it had the phrase 'barely legal' I couldn't search google for it or go to the site directly.

 

[mindless_moder]

Speaking of strict schools, today our school decided to block Wikipedia. Nearly everyone uses this sites when they do research, and alot of people are pissed off... including teachers.

Microsoft has encarta online it isn't as detailed as wikipedia but its good enough. most of the pages on wikipedia are ripped directly from web pages anyway.... so it really shouldn't make that much of a difference.

 

[Ennui]

websense for the lose

my school blocked erowid, effectively annihilating the vast majority of my available research material for my independent study on psychotropics... ****headsss

 

[Operational]

My Uni blocks Steam's access, but apart from that I haven't noticed anything being restricted. They do log your Internet usage though.

 

[Azner]

Speaking of strict schools, today our school decided to block Wikipedia. Nearly everyone uses this sites when they do research, and alot of people are pissed off... including teachers.

You can always use UNCYCLOPEDIA!

 

[OmegaX]

Hehe...I found a way to bypass all the school filters and visit any website.
Go to http://www.dekentering.com/ , it's a proxy type thing and you just enter the site you want to go to there.

 

[Baal]

Hehe...I found a way to bypass all the school filters and visit any website.
Go to http://www.dekentering.com/ , it's a proxy type thing and you just enter the site you want to go to there.

Pandora, my love, oh how I've missed you.

I've only ever tried megaproxy but you have to pay to get use of flash and other such things.

Most web filters now block all of the common web proxies anyhow. Not that either of my jobs where I use a computer uses web filters

 

[Baal]

PVANNER

I googled PVANNER and this thread was the first result.

Please explain

 

[Adrien C]

i deeply dislike the french

well i think this thread is about done now i've had my say

oh shit wait i meant...

haha that was great. But why do you dislike the French ?