Comments on: #816 – Thermal (27 Comments)

By: Hershey

Hershey — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:23:53 +0000

I hate my school’s system of blocking things.
You’d get online, and once in a while, find a website they’ve never heard of so it isn’t blocket. Good fun. You’re shooting virtual people while everyone else tries to type sentences and asks you ” Dude, whats that? Gimme the url. ”
But then the school district or whomever checks the history of your computers and blocks every website you weren’t supposed to be on.
We came up with the idea of deleting out history list only after everywhere good was blocked.

heh, I kept my first computer for five years.
It began spazzing out horridly all the weight back at four years. But I kept using it.

By: -2!

-2! — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:44:03 +0000

Ah school days… I remember back at my school the IT guy was the laziest person and I had crafted a deal where I fix there broken software and help them with computer trobles and me and my friend get to play my game on there computers (yes it is my game I made it which was a key loophole as we were “testing”) I still remember the time someone stole the F1 key from the keyboard (normally not a big deal as who uses help right? but my main programing language I used back then had F1 as run) So I put the scroll lock key there.

I cant remember how many ways i got by the system, mainly to change the resolution from 800*600 so you could, you know use the Internet (or my game)

By: dartigen

dartigen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:44:28 +0000

Heh. Our school has two-year-old computers that mostly get the CD-drive tray replaced – people like to a) superglue them shut or b) rip them out entirely.
The theft of the mouse balls was why we switched to optical mice….so now people stick tape over the little transmitter thingy. Keyboard keys are often switched. My computer in my IT class has two Q keys. The second one is where the C should be. Lucky that I don’t look half the time when I am typing.

Of course, nobody ever thinks of remapping the keyboard…if only I had an admin password.

By: gelugon2105

gelugon2105 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:13:58 +0000

That PC is ruined.

By: Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:11:40 +0000

@T3ch W01f
My comment really didn’t have anything to do with Myspace or bandwidth- I just don’t like freshmen. I don’t like using the school’s computers either… I am pretty uniformed on the AV front at my school. Also, since we got new computers in one of the labs, we have no floppy drives- and there were not any on the laptops to begin with.
Is it worth noting that I would not waste a perfectly good sammich by putting it in a CD/DVD writer/drive?

By: Claude

Claude — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:33:59 +0000

New reader here and really digging the strip. It took me two days to go through all the archives.

My favorite prank is to take a screen shot of the desktop and then set it as the wallpaper, then delete the icons. It’s riotous good fun watching people clicking repeatedly on an image that won’t respond.

By: AdmiralChaos

AdmiralChaos — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:19:38 +0000

I recall one day we had a substitute in my high school programming class… We were playing armagetron (motorcycles that lay walls down) with the 16 people in class, and then decided to try 256 simultaneous users…eventually the IT tech wandered in laughing because we were using most of the entire school district’s bandwidth for our dedicated server.

Also…heat guns are very, very great ways to break a computer without leaving a trace

By: kingbob

kingbob — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:08:25 +0000

im the guy who would always be renaming everything on the start menu with gibberish copy-pasted from system files i opened in notepad. i also once crashed an entire lab with a virus i dled from some site

By: T3ch W01f

T3ch W01f — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:21:26 +0000

@ Ziggy Stardust

The whole myspace thing corrupting computers is a myth perpetuated by schools to clear up internet bandwith that really isn’t used unless kids are on myspace anyways.

When I was in highschool my senior year, they myspace was just getting huge and thus to “conserve” bandwidth and keep our precious computers from being corrupted by that virus feel trojan laden myspace it had to be blocked through the schools filtering system. I was the kid that ran around teaching everyone how to use web proxies to still access myspace while the school was proclaiming our bandwidth was now free to be used for academic purposes and it was safe once again to use jump drives and floppy disks on the computers because they were 100% clean now that no one could access myspace. Even though we were all still using myspace.

You can get bugs any where you go on the internet if you don’t have a good AV, but if you have a good AV your computer is practically idiot proof. Plenty of good free AV’s out there too.

By: Radical Edward

Radical Edward — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:00:42 +0000

My computer has died on me not that long ago. I ended up getting a similar model.