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General discussion / Re: Tech Confessions?
« on: January 15, 2015, 03:40:39 am »
I have quite a few, but here are the most interesting ones:
I learned how to torrent movies in 6th grade, and I continued to torrent a lot of crap thinking the "hide my ass proxy" would protect me, until my freshman year in high school when I learned the truth.....I should have known better, but also I think our ISP couldn't care less
*Not entirely my fault, the second story:
Same high school, my sophomore year, where I NOW KNOW a bit more with computers, we all had to pay tuition for the first time (well, the parents paid) for school laptops for everyone and the new computer/programming courses. Well, that year I was asked to volunteer for the tech-help desk by the programming teacher, mostly just to teach the tech hungry freshman how to do basic stuff like connecting to the student network, connecting to wireless printers and the classic "my computer is slow" issues, I've practically made them IT slaves, but I got bored, and made the mistake of showing them what BIOS in Windows can do (nothing that can do any REAL damage i supposed). It's their second week and I just go to grab a quick snack and talk to a few friends in the cafeteria for a few minutes, when I return 10 minutes later, the freshman are factory wiping someone's laptop, (this was a big no no at the time since all of the lappys had Microsoft office, the entire adobe package, and VNC) "what are you doing?!?!?" "someone dropped it off and said it had a virus on the desktop, so we clicked on it and a bunch of terminals kept popping up! so we shut it down and we factory reset it just to be safe!"
the facepalm level was above 9000, the freshman were later terminated from the help desk, and I had to re-install all the crap onto the kid's computer. It's even worse that they were suspended at the end of the year from having their laptops because they then tried to take down the school network using cmd...apparently I "inspired" them to search a crap load of Youtube how-to's on cmd crap.....
I learned how to torrent movies in 6th grade, and I continued to torrent a lot of crap thinking the "hide my ass proxy" would protect me, until my freshman year in high school when I learned the truth.....I should have known better, but also I think our ISP couldn't care less
*Not entirely my fault, the second story:
Same high school, my sophomore year, where I NOW KNOW a bit more with computers, we all had to pay tuition for the first time (well, the parents paid) for school laptops for everyone and the new computer/programming courses. Well, that year I was asked to volunteer for the tech-help desk by the programming teacher, mostly just to teach the tech hungry freshman how to do basic stuff like connecting to the student network, connecting to wireless printers and the classic "my computer is slow" issues, I've practically made them IT slaves, but I got bored, and made the mistake of showing them what BIOS in Windows can do (nothing that can do any REAL damage i supposed). It's their second week and I just go to grab a quick snack and talk to a few friends in the cafeteria for a few minutes, when I return 10 minutes later, the freshman are factory wiping someone's laptop, (this was a big no no at the time since all of the lappys had Microsoft office, the entire adobe package, and VNC) "what are you doing?!?!?" "someone dropped it off and said it had a virus on the desktop, so we clicked on it and a bunch of terminals kept popping up! so we shut it down and we factory reset it just to be safe!"
the facepalm level was above 9000, the freshman were later terminated from the help desk, and I had to re-install all the crap onto the kid's computer. It's even worse that they were suspended at the end of the year from having their laptops because they then tried to take down the school network using cmd...apparently I "inspired" them to search a crap load of Youtube how-to's on cmd crap.....