Network Administrator = Fool

My college blocked www.youtube.com but not youtube.com....so yeah, pretty pointless.
How did you ping the site anyway? you don't have access to the command line do you? that would be even more worrying.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Or maybe they're just very busy with more important things?

If I'm doing infrastructure maintenance a user account request will be at the bottom of my inbox.

Burnsy
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Nah, they kept denying they had recieved the request, changing how long it would take (started off at 3 days, later jumped to 5), asked for a copy of the request form to be emailed to them...
I'd also asked for an email address, since they'd changed the system they'd been using and everyone had new emails, and that was sorted the same day, as were logins to all the software we use. Just I couldn't get onto the network to use them.

And while I understand that keeping the network going is important, how hard can it be to create a new account? Especially as it meant I went the good part of a week not having much to do. I know I can't have an equal view of these things as I don't work in IT, but still...

My college blocked www.youtube.com but not youtube.com....so yeah, pretty pointless.
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Also, https:// is also often a way to get around filters.
 
That's because they are blocking by individual DNS names as opposed to content and categories. Probably due to using very basic software..

You don't need a command line to ping a machine a 'whois' will do it.

Burnsy keeps beating me, I wouldn't mess on his network :D
 
Maybe the admin seen your appaling English and decided that your time in school would be better spent studying rather than frittering it away on computing forums.
 
I remember when the admin at my school reset EVERYONE'S passwords at the start of the academic year and forgot to delete all the accounts of the people that had left. Within a week I'd set up a Quake 3 tournament using all the spare logins and the demo version of Q3 (which would work with just the folder copied over). Good times...
 
Back in my sixth form days we found a picture belonging to our network admin where he had superimposed his face onto a picture of Eddie Irvine posing with two attractive ladies. Oh how we laughed...

PK!
 
I hope you network admin finds the post. Most network admins in education aren't fools just don't have any budget to play with and have constraints put on them in regards to using open source software.

Glad i work in industry where money can be found if needed :)
 
One of the boarders at my school had HL1 on his desktop, and linked to the network that we could all access.

In 6th form 15 of us had massive DM games on HL whilst a special art teacher tried to give a lecture to young kids about some fancy poncy artists. He never did anuthing as we shouted across the room:

'You **** killed me'
'hahahah you're all going to die, I'm closing the bunker and launching the nuke !!!'

Then our best moment was sending silly msgs to each other on some net msg program, then my mate forgot to type in my username whilst sending FANNNY x1000 times going mad with his reutrn key. Only went to every PC on the netwrok, and everytime someone clikced 'OK' the next one came up :D:D
 
We couldn't install anything on the PCs, instead we all played doom from usb drives.
Then someone formatted one of the PCs and stuck linux on it :D
 
-Ad- said:
Then our best moment was sending silly msgs to each other on some net msg program,
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I nearly got in trouble for doing this. There was nothing wrong with the message I sent - only that I sent it to the entire school (to be fair I did think it'd do that I just also thought it'd be funny). After getting told off for doing it and told not to do it again five minutes later the same teacher came in and raged at me claiming I'd done it once more. Of course he was now teaching in a different computer room where the computers were previously turned off - as soon as people logged in the messages popped up. I swear it took ten minutes just explaining that I had NOT sent them again.
 
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