3 Dec
1998
3 Dec
'98
11:24 a.m.
No, I'm a student. I can get in trouble for that kind of stuff :)
Teacher: Why did you do that, Max? You can get into serious trouble for
this!
Me: It's just a harmless joke...look! (I demonstrate)
Teacher: You know what, Max? Go home! (says jeez and rubs his eyes in the
background)
Looks like you like to play tricks on users as well.
Dan
3 Dec
3 Dec
12:45 p.m.
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4 Dec
4 Dec
1:20 a.m.
No, I'm a student. I can get in trouble for that kind of stuff :)
What?
When I was a student, and when I was supervising students, practical
jokes were _expected_. There were rules, like no permanent damage (to
physical items or data (like computer files)). Nothing against the law.
Nothing _too_ dangerous.
And yes, I've been caught by practical jokes. And yes, I laughed
afterwards - and then played a joke in return. 
9:36 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <bill(a)chipware.com> wrote:
When I was in high school (we had an HP 3000), if you
could hack MPE
and "steal" operator or supervisor privileges then, provided that you
didn't do anything terrible with them, you could keep them. And you
The community college I attended made sure that all the MPE manuals were
locked up, and had arranged for the local HP office to screen requests for
manuals and try really hard to avoid selling them to students. Lord knows
you wouldn't want students to actually learn how to use the system.
I suppose this was some sort of misguided attempt at security through
obscurity. We figured out how to do a lot of things we weren't supposed
to, but we certainly weren't able to learn enough about MPE for it to
be a marketable skill :-(
And to think that I actually paid real money for the priviledge of being
prevented from learning about the computer :-( :-(
Eric
10:04 a.m.
On Fri, 04 Dec 1998, you wrote:
The community college I attended made sure that all the
MPE manuals were
locked up, and had arranged for the local HP office to screen requests for
manuals and try really hard to avoid selling them to students. Lord knows
you wouldn't want students to actually learn how to use the system.
I suppose this was some sort of misguided attempt at security through
obscurity. We figured out how to do a lot of things we weren't supposed
to, but we certainly weren't able to learn enough about MPE for it to
be a marketable skill :-(
And to think that I actually paid real money for the priviledge of being
prevented from learning about the computer :-( :-(
My sentiment exactly, though I'm getting this wonderful service for free :)
Here at school two days ago, I was trying to fix a Windows 95 "security breach"
(kind of like trying to sew an interdimensional wormhole together); I was using
the MS-DOS prompt and using ping and tracert to find out why the computer
wouldn't log on to the network properly. My teacher says, "You do of course
realize, Max, that there are three pairs of curious eyes watching what you're
doing? I don't want you showing them the NT Server Prompt". I gently explained
what it really was but he objected just the same. Wouldn't want to distract the
kids from learning how to use powerpoint. Today, he told them that a website
should work like a powerpoint presentation. I stood there with my mouth wide
open. How is somebody supposed to learn in this atmosphere? I'll bet when my
school used the IBM System/34 students learned quite a bit more...
Eric
12:39 p.m.
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