Why do you young-lings do this in IT Suites?

bulletv1 said:
I remeber the quick alt + f4, n ,enter combo
Also a quick tap of the power button would completely shut the pc down
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we used to play a game of power button roulette. where if you were fast enough you could click in and click out the power button without it switching off.

was always amusing to see who papped their pants as they hadnt saved their work :D
 
We get this all the time in our computer rooms. I think for the most part kids are bored.

I've even heard students say they'll deliberately unplug things to bunk off a lesson to come report it to one of us.
 
SPG said:
Parents should have to pay for there kids own laptop throughout school. Why the frick they are all still using pen and paper is beyond me tbh.
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Because it's much quicker to hand write notes. Also kids need to learn handwriting.
 
The most common problem here, is that kids unplug the Ethernet Cables. and then plug them back but not all the way, So it looks like they are in but they are not.
They dont seem to notice that there are two LED's that light up when its actually plugged in.

So many hours wasted per week re plugging in cables.
 
It's over 20 years ago now but I set up a public library and what we did was put the PCs themselves in a locked cabinet with only the mouse, keyboard, and monitor cables coming out.
 
We never did that? We always were more interested in the ways of either annoying someone by hiding all their work in one folder within thousands of sub folders (also inside thousands more, which are inside thousands more, etc...) or getting stuff to work that wasn't allowed. :p
 
Moving mouse and keyboard to the front ports prevents other students unplugging them, depending on how the desks/pc's are arranged. When I was at school they were all in individual rows so the row in front had easy access to unplug anything that wasn't screwed or clipped in.
 
I remember it happening with our machines because people wanted to play multiplayer games - rather than crowding round one KB each player could have their own keyboard (i.e. with one using WASD and the other the arrows).

Two problems - one they would plug the second one into the front to save time, and two, when someone wanted to use the PC next to it there was no keyboard.

I remember there was a spate of kids taking the cases off and stealing the RAM as well.
 
We never had laptops when I was at school :(

Lucky to get a logbook, and the rich kids had slide rules :D
 
Open disk drive script in the startup folder.
Would drive the teacher mad.

Also a silent shutdown script after 15 minutes, so when we started working, their machine would just shutdown.

Great fun! :D
 
Confession time. Back in 1993..

I wrote a program that allocated data to an hidden file on an old Novell network. It doubled in size every minute until the drive was full.

Wrote another program which at the DOS prompt made a sound using the PC speaker. It went from the lowest note up to the highest, over and over. Very difficult to tell where it was coming from.

We used to play Mortal Kombat and Micro Machines on the Viglen 486's. Hit the turbo button and it would take 20 seconds to do a flying kick across the screen. Fights would take all the lesson to complete. Hitting CMD and F11 (I think) would freeze the game and enter back into Wordpro..

Plugging USB into the front ports.. When I was a lad we didn't have USB ports!
 
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