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[zyaN]

Well, i was remembering of an incident that happened earlier in the year,
and i thought i may just share it.

I thinks that ill do this in timeline -


Become good friends with the college IT Department.
Play online games with some of the IT crew.
Apply for some work experience in the IT Department.
Download Movie, logged in at school.
Joke about it, and make the school pay for it.

Thats soughta what happened....
as i talked to the IT guys i asked..."...so whats the damage?"
One of them replied "Holy Shit...$157.38, how did ya manage that?"
The other said, "Fuck it, ill grab the money out of the school account. Just don't let it happen again ;)"
I was like, so any one up for some D2 later tonight?

[Joshu]

Hahaha, welcome to the beautiful world of exploiting your school's IT department. :D How does 1GB cost $157? That's utterly crazy, 15c/MB!

[zyaN]

I know! At first i was really shocked, then just laughed it off. :D

[themunga]

Is that at St Pats? If so, you are one lucky bastard. When I was there, I would have had my head ripped off, and served to Vanderclay on a platter. Definition of fucktard = Vanderclay.

[zyaN]

hahahah sooooo true!
Yes that is St.Pats :)
...but luckily vanderklay isn't here anymore. w00t
Our IT department now is awesome.

[Joshu]

The Damascus IT team are awesome, they tell the teachers exactly where to stick it.

On a related note, has anyone read the Bastard Operator From Hell (http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/) stuff? They remind me 100% of Lee, the head IT dude from Damascus.

[mudgie]

I hear Damascus got competant - I'll believe it when I see it ;). That's a nasty charge for a movie...

[Joshu]

I hear Damascus got competant
You heard wrong. They've taken on a new guy - Kev - who works solely to create his own job. He made some piece of shit software that manages the entire school, and he sold it and himself to them. Fucking nasty shit.

In other news, they're running Windows 2000/2k3 server now. :)

[smitty]

Kev A.K.A Kevrosoft/Big Kev, is the project co-ordinator for SIMON (the piece of shit web app Joshu is talking about), he made v1 when he was at St Pats. Then he sucked up to Damascus & got himself a job here as head techie or as he likes to be called "e-Learning Co-ordinator" & he spends 2 days a week at damascus working on SIMON, v2 was just released with the only differnaces to v1 being a different colour scheme, different logos & a worse student front end "ohhhhhhhh" "ahhhhhhhhhh" I hear u say. Oh & plus the addtion of some commercial programs such as a file manager, calendar script & menu script, all of which he brought (we buy programs when u can make them urself??).

When he came to Damascus he changed the network from Novell to Windows & because of this they had to buy 14 new servers to handle the shit. Plus they got new pcs which they were going to do anyway.

In closing Kevrosoft is the biggest Microsoft nut I've ever met.

Below is the student frontend to SIMON v2

[zyaN]

hey, well atleast he got rid of novell some thing of which barkly street still have....and i personally want to destroy it!
But, i didn't know that it was him that made v1. hmmm thats interesting...but im pretty sure our techies have changed alot of the shit he done. Ill have a chat to monty, find out some more on this :P :tg

[smitty]

atleast he got rid of novell

Thats right, & replaced it with a windows network - no problems there, but then tried to inforce strict security(?) settings on students that are simply a badley done hack, eg almost all off the "disabled" items u can gain access to, for example they have tried to disable the command prompt, when u open cmd.exe or command.com it says "The Administrator has disabled access to this program" or something similar, yet a simple batch file like:

@ECHO OFF

:prompt
set /p command=%cd%^>
%command%

GOTO prompt

lets you perform all dos commands (except for stuff like echo %computername% but with a few more lines of code even this is possible). They even tried to disable the address bar (for local addresses) & network Neighbourhood, yet a small .html file with a hyper-link to a server or any other pc on the network takes you straight there.

Even "blocked" websites are easily accessibile through the use of a proxy. Sure you may need to have some computer knowledge for this, but even average users have discovered ways around hotmail being blocked by simply going to ninemsn.com & clicking the Hotmail link.

When the new PC's first came Kevrosoft immediatly put new images on all the PC's, except the poor little guy forgot to uninstall MSN, you can imagine the trouble teachers had trying to get students to work when they were in a computer room with 20 students all mucking around on MSN. When MSN messenger was eventually removed people just use Windows messenger! & now with that removed & everyone hooked on MSN everyone resorts to MSN webmessenger!

I think some of the possibilities with a Windows network a really good like the use of Active Directory so you only need to Log On once & bam your authenticated for everything. But I think the implementation of the mentioned restrictions(?) are so poor that they're useless.

& another thing for someone who is so into Microsoft you would think he would have known that the Description field for each user in Active Directory is publically viewable, but he instructed the techies to use this field to store notes & passwords for Student Teacher Accounts etc. WHAT A F00L! ... I'll let you guess what that led to... :tg

[radass]

$150 a GB is outrageous. Corporate grade data costs start at about $80 a GB. Commiting to 15GB a month gets you $30 a GB. Course, they're probably paying a massive monthly (flat) fee for backhaul back to melbourne, unless they're using a DSL or Cable tail.

[smitty]

$150 a GB is outrageous. Corporate grade data costs start at about $80 a GB. Commiting to 15GB a month gets you $30 a GB. Course, they're probably paying a massive monthly (flat) fee for backhaul back to melbourne, unless they're using a DSL or Cable tail.

Don't forget that extra revenue for the school on the side ;)

[radass]

i think schools are crazy for not simply running a few dsl tails and load ballancing the outgoing connections on them. would be pretty simple to set up, cheap, would provide plenty of bandwidth and be IMHO pretty reliable.

By comparison a 2Mb/2Mb frame relay connection in ballarat is going to cost something like 3G a month + data

[SPOT]

jeez ryan, thats almost as bad as $1400 for 14GB!!

FK YOU BALLARAT UNI FKS!!

[zyaN]

(everything smitty said)

Ha, well yeah it doesn't take much for anyone to get around it. They try soooo hard don't they :rolleyes:

$150 a GB is outrageous. Corporate grade data costs start at about $80 a GB. Commiting to 15GB a month gets you $30 a GB.....

Your telling me :p

jeez ryan, thats almost as bad as $1400 for 14GB!!

FK YOU BALLARAT UNI FKS!!

Ha :tg

[themunga]

Yeah Ballarat Uni does suck a fair bit of sausage when it comes to Internet issues. Hell, they suck a bit when it comes to ANY type of network issue.