School network down

Posted by Evilish on Oct. 23, 2006, 4:22 a.m.

And I'm in so much f**king bliss about it.

Today my friend(the guy who I had the long and random chat with in my last blog, lets just call him Dylan for now eh?) came to IT class and gave me Quake 2… now it may not be the newest games or the fanciest graphics but when you have an entire IT class worth of students going around with railguns, it's all fun.

The reason we didn't get in trouble for playing it in that class, we had a sub teacher, and even if we did have our normal teacher, she just has empty threats.

After IT class, kaboom! All the computers shutdown, signs appeared on every computer room/pod saying that the computers will remain offline until further notice.

Now they are doing this for a few reasons

1) There current student system, Novell, I've hacked so badly I have access to everything, lol, I figured out the name of their server as well, zoidberg, XD.

2) E-mail system is completely shit, if someone doesn't set a password on them(which btw, doesn't automaticly happen at the start of the year), then anyone can come along, type in the victims username(which is like, three digits of their last name+4 numbers(which go up for each person who has the same user(wow I love brackets))), leave the password area blank and boom! They are into the emails.

Now both things I've abused, I used some yr7 kids e-mail when I lost mine(idk, something about sending a red and blue flashing virus(GM made) to everyone, it wasn't a virus, it was a fun and entertaining thingamajig).

There was also a mystical, 'VET' account, which gave unrestricted access to pretty much everything on a computer, including right click, which we thought was the only reason why Windows beats Mac. After they deleted the VET account(*cough*, because of me), each computer had a leftover workstation only account. which I can still use anytime I want.

So the entire network is down so they can install and test run this vicsmart program, every teacher is left without access to there work on the main server, and I'm here laughing at everything while I play some more Quake 2 against friends.

Oh and seeing how pretty much all computer related classes are crap this week, I made a 3D tank game in GM at school, I'm gonna add online play tomorrow as well, should be fun because you can actually aim with the mouse

Comments

Firebird 18 years, 1 month ago

Heh, awesome. Our computers don't have CD drives… but they have diskette drives.

Yay for diskette-bootable Linux distros!

tomsrb ftw.

Evilish 18 years, 1 month ago

Ours don't have CD drives either, but with 4 USB ports(which we have complete access to in VET, unlike only 1 otherwise), we don't really care…

We also made fun of a guy today because he had a small 'Usb'.

Firebird 18 years, 1 month ago

And we all know what they say about small USB drives…

Evilish 18 years, 1 month ago

well hey, he kept on going on about, 'it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it'.

Up until then we were just laughing at him because he didn't have a large enough USB to fit Quake2, he took it too far

Onyx 18 years, 1 month ago

Quote:
well hey, he kept on going on about, 'it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it'.

ROTFL

Anyway, we had protected computers in highshool, USBs not workingm CD-ROMs not working, "My Computer" was littelary blank, right-click worked but it didn't matter, all you could do was copy and paste anyway.

Never really hacked it (not egnouh time) but I did find a flaw. It behaved like your USB isn't even there, but I found out that if you write "h:" before filename it downloads file from internet to my USB, And I allways had my MP3 player with me so when teacher asked why I have an USB plugged in I said I'm charging my battery LOL.

marbs 18 years, 1 month ago

heh, awesome.

I hate not being able to use right click at school. My school's aslo banned *.txt documents, incase people use that to create a *.bat file or something. All network stuff at my school is named after simpsons stuff. Like the network is called SPRINGFIELD, and then there are other things like one called MOES.

When my friend left school they never deleted his account, they just locked it. I knew his password, but it was useless with a blocked account. Just this last week though, the IT technicians blocked all the accounts in the school to do some work, then unblocked them. Stupidly, they unblocked the account of my friend who left. Now that means I have access to another account at school…heh heh…

Evilish 18 years, 1 month ago

They don't block .txt files here, the technicians did alot smarter and blocked command prompt from running.(this is also turned off in VET)

As for entering the directory into the lil URL bar, thats also banned, even if it's a legit directory we already have access to.

Once I got cmd.exe running in VET, kaboom, fun with netsend.

And thanks to a lil batch file I picked up from work experience, I have a looping netsend message incase I ever really want to annoy the school. It's never come to that though

Firebird 18 years, 1 month ago

Heh, command prompt, eh? I'll be sure to fool around with .bat files. They've restricted the command prompt as far as I know.

Onyx 18 years, 1 month ago

Command prompt is blocked in 99% of cases, it would be strange to find a computer where it isn't blocked.

Simpsons? We have 2 special printers on college used to print out various forms and can only be accessed throught few special compters. One is named See-Threepio and another one Artoo-Detoo XD

Evilish 18 years, 1 month ago

command prompt isn't blocked on VET.

I like that the servers named Zoidberg, it's fun, the computers are just crap names like, <Room name>_<computer number in room>