I'm not going to generalise this to ALL school Network Admins, but MOST (well all secondary school ones) that I've met appear to be complete and UTTER tools. My mum had some issues with a dll file so she took it to school to get the network admin to fix it (she decided not to bother me). Should've been a quick and easy uninstall then reinstall of the application. But noooooo, the guy decides to fiddle with the registry, it kills her optical drives, yes, ALL her optical drives come up with a code 39 driver issue, he installs some 360 Wireless adaptor, he sets up her home laptop to connect to the school proxy but doesn't remove it! He disables the onboard wireless for some reason and doesn't re-enable it! I've just spent the last hour getting it back to working condition! Sorry for the rant but I need to moan about it today since this is the 4th Time I've had to fix this guys mistakes
Back at my old school, I used the default windows install about three times. Then just brought in linux on a cd. She found out and took the cd from me. She put it in her cd drive and repeatedly kept trying to click the .iso file. After she found out she couldn't do that, she called IT support and some guy came in. IDK what happened after that.
Our school actually had a good admin. Our first one was utter shite though. However our second one was cool and knew what he was doing.
Don't rant here, ring the **** up and give him a earful. Most IT people in schools are idiots, which is why they used to ask me to fix the PCs, heheh!!!! Even in College some guy in our class who is quite techy used to know more than the IT people, he always used to fix the PCs in the rooms when we had a lesson.
My primary school computer experiences: first day in the computer room, my IT teacher told me "Your computers will break if you don't turn them on in the order Computer, Monitor, Printer" My secondary school computer experiences: We sat down on the computers, and between three of us it took all of a week to get past the school firewall... that doesn't seem like much of an achievement, but this was in year 7, and the first time we'd met each other My IT teacher repeatedly informed me that it was impossible to get Office 2000 on my Win 98 computer, even though I actually had it installed at home (granted it DID run a little slow). The network room was unbelievably warm, and the admins wondered why the computer system was down more than it was online. In short, you're not alone
Guess where I work and as what. Speaking for our department, if it's broke, we fix it. We also never disable the anti-virus, never cross the streams and never feed mogwais after midnight.
When I was at primary school we had one computer between the whole class and it we used it to play lemmings.
Not alone indeed, least you have a dedicated IT admin.... ours was just the head of the Geography department Like many others here, muggings here, and one of my friends at the time, where the ones whom ended up installing and setting up the entire network. Then being banned form it on a number of occasions for real silly things that the teachers just did not understand. Like floppy drive access was banned and removed from explorer, essentially hidden, but that dint stop us putting in A: into which ever save or open boxes, which of cause took you straight to the drive . Being banned from the network for backing up ya homework... lame. Another time was my own fault mind, while I was still banned anyways. When setting up the original network and setting up Novell netware, my friend and I had installed burgler.nlm onto the main server, which admittedly gave us backdoor access to create and change accounts etc, so after being banned from the network for backing up my homework, so I kindly changed my account back, and would use a PC on the network in a different building... untill one day when the admin happens to walk by and spot me on a machine and asks, erm are you not supposed to be banned?!! ermmmmmmmmmm lol So he kicked me off, and pritty much made it that, if I was to ever use a pc on the network in future, I HAD to have a teacher over my back :| sux Tools indeed!! well maybe not all of em... Silver51 ;p
Idiots. Reminds me of the tech support in college who insisted on disabling the usb ports and making everyone use floppies because its how Virii get in apparently. Shame most of the floppy drives got broken in a string of inrelated incidents.
When i was at secondary school, the school admin person was actually quite good at his job, but because his son was in the same yeargroup, we got away with nearly anything. every lunchtime = quake lan match sillyness! That said, he never did work out how we shared files about so easily when the pc's had no CD/floppy drives and no shared network drives: we had discovered the rather inspired filesharing option of deleting a copy of quake/other good stuff on any PC we used. The next person to use the PC just retrieved a copy from the recycle bin! students 1, IT security 0
Mine was the CAD teacher and he was pretty cool about anything we did. Granted we didn't have much time to mess with the server or network, he still invited the challenge. ( He really loved that server ) Agreed that some are tools but others are ok. The tools seem to be the ones that are worn out from dealing with all the little things they have to deal with that could have been prevented with a little common sense.
When I was in my first year of learning electronics the whole class was banned from the computers for a whole day because somebody had done something wrong. Thing was that we only had classes in an entire different part of the school, having subjects that didn't require computers... Some punishment, huh? As long as the school is large enough to have a "department" it's usually ok. The problem is the teachers that get the responsibility of a schools network just because they know how to turn on a computer. Teachers are strange creatures. They know LOTS of stuff, bus as soon as something get a graphical display they are lost. They can use old "pedal powered" xerox machines and know exactly how a needle printer works. But give them a MFP printer that have a large green button that they have to press to copy, and they are lost... We ran Doom on ours
We had an awesome network admin at school. He was damn good at what he did (which was actually everything IT related, rather than networking). Our IT teacher was a different story however.
i knew my IT admin chap really well, he got hold of an Intel EE dual core edition sample pre release, and set about re-coding his laptops bios and fitting it in his Rock laptop. It lasted for about a month until he overclocked it a tad and cooked it. We also played Quake a stupid amount of hours, of course it was hidden in a rather clever way only those who knew could find it, it was renamed 'on screen keyboard 2' icon changed aswell, hidden in the depths of the taskbar. oh and we drop a broken colour laser print down so stairs to get a new one, because it wasn't broken enough! lol!
Haha, last year my friend managed to create an Admin account and also managed to access the NetOp log records (a website blocking program). Que much laughing at the people who we found had tried to look at porn sites (including some VERY strange websites). Idiots
Ours admins were cool, they allowed us to start a "Computer club" and we basically took over 4 computer labs and played LAN games during lunch, mainly AvP2. Though we soon found out that each of the computer's root admin account login info was penciled in on them at the rear where the PSU was. Not only that but certain computers also had a network admin account written on them.. We took down the firewall/site block for 2 weeks before they realized it
Exactly. Lemmings and some learn-typing game. Mostly Lemmings. Ditto at college. As long as we didn't do anything illegal we were let pretty much free to do what we liked, which was mostly install Counter-Strike on every system we could find. Dude even encouraged us to try and hack the network (which we did, several times, to hilarious effect) as long as we fessed up to how afterwards.
My admin is pretty much OK, he fixes stuff ontime and keeps everything going... and doesn't even care what I do... as long as I don't screw anything up and make extra work for him.
