My School Internet

The best one i remember seeing at my school was that they first blocked google.com (WTF!) , hotmail.com was blocked but you could just go onto msn's site and click hotmail :p , best thing we did was a ziped up quake, uploaded it to my server and downloaded it on the network and there was about 16 of us playing quake across the school network, what a laugh
 
at one point our proxy blocked google :p

now all email accounts and getting on for 97% of the internet is blocked.

Thank god i never actually had a use for school internet.
 
my old work place once blocked google , needless to say IT had a fair few phone calls of abuse ;)
 
dunno, use this, should get through most things

http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

at my school we didnt have the interent, we had nice bbc's :(

at college I had internet but only certain words were blocked so most time was spend trying words out that we could get to site with. 'plumpers' was a good one :eek: :o
 
My old college tried to block certain URLs...

...Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Advanced>blahdeblah...

*n
 
Proxies are the way forward in schools :p

Mine has a blocker with just url banning, and another proper one which is crap.


Although, it's easier in sixth form because I know all the people going to become admins so they'll promote my account so it's not blocked :cool:
 
stig said:
my old work place once blocked google , needless to say IT had a fair few phone calls of abuse ;)
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where have all your posts gone stig?

anyways yeh, my friends dad thought he'd help my friend and his younger brother to stop browsing the internet wrongly so we found out he managed to block the letter 'x' how nice. :p
 
personally i'd be thanking the admin who blocked wikipedia - it's handy at times but not something i would ever recommend using as a resource for schoolwork etc as there are next to no checks on the accuracy of the information.
 
Werewolf said:
personally i'd be thanking the admin who blocked wikipedia - it's handy at times but not something i would ever recommend using as a resource for schoolwork etc as there are next to no checks on the accuracy of the information.
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Exactly - hence my reason above :)
 
Werewolf said:
personally i'd be thanking the admin who blocked wikipedia - it's handy at times but not something i would ever recommend using as a resource for schoolwork etc as there are next to no checks on the accuracy of the information.
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Hasn't it been shown that wikipedia is as accurate, if not moreso than the Encyclopedia Britannica?
 
My school Blocked .com.au and the .com google Images But still left Yahoo images and the rest of the Google countries :p
 
We have websense at my school - it's a pain in the rear end to get around as they've banned all the proxy sites that I can find! However, they only switched to WebSense this year from SonicWall Filter. Get this - they haven't taken down the old proxy server with SonicWall on it. So I just use the SonicWall proxy instead of the WebSense proxy and thus get to everything I want! Stuff that is blocked by one filter tends to be passed by the other so it's all good!
 
Werewolf said:
personally i'd be thanking the admin who blocked wikipedia - it's handy at times but not something i would ever recommend using as a resource for schoolwork etc as there are next to no checks on the accuracy of the information.
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Well I'd say it hardly matters if some things are a bit innacurate for school work. Unless something is blatently incorrect I doubt it would cause any significant problems. Degree level work is a different matter but I think it would be fine for GCSE level and below. Half the stuff that's taught at GCSE level is pretty innacurate anyway.
 
celliott said:
They used to use websense at my old school but tbh its no problem to get past. Just run though a proxy, nobody stopped me from browsing ebay in ICT :p
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thats exacly what we use to do until they found out we were using proxys then filtered them, ********, are school used this RM safty net plus thing was pret strickt aswell, didnt stop us going on ebay and these forums though
 
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