As one of the most knowledgeable students i get alot of special privlages and help make alot of important decisions regarding the computer situation.
My first year here the school was dominated by old mac(intrashe)'s, the next year a pc lab was opened. We are currently using Win NT 4 as a file server, and im working on a project to get ftp to work with it (im trying to use the war ftp server).
I pretty much run the schools web server, an ancuient mac running webstar. We have been trying to get the money to get new computers and servers as well as maintian what we have, but the budget keeps on shrinking every year.
Im also working on a test insallation of linux, (redhat/mandrake) but have had no sucess with it.
Well most of the ones i know were geeks, nerds, or general social outcasts like myself. It would then seem obvious that people of these nature are prone to using computers. Thus they are more likey to get intrested in their high-end uses.
I as a hacker (if you think hackers are bad you need to get with the real world, oh wait hackers build the real world....) know that playing gurps and any other rpg is nothing like real life, and enen the best versions really can't teach you jack about being a hacker (good), a cracker (bad) or any other of the sterotypes we are currently using for ourselves.
RPGs dont teach people to hack, crack, phreak or any other thing, there just games! The Feds were way out of line attacking STG that way.
Well I have an number of points I'd like to bring up (yes I know a few have alredy been said, but i like my list better)....
1) There is no, nor will there ever be a filtering or security program that can block everything. Sorry its just physically impossible to make it work with the shere volume of new web pages every day. There will always be sites that havent been either rated (a common filtering system uses rateings to decide which sites can be acessed) or sites that simply dont uses explicit urls or meta tags.
2) Anyone stupid enough to try and look at "obsene" (yet to be defined) in a public library deserves to get caught and thrown out. Im sorry to say but a public library means that the public can see what your doing and like it or not the American public is obsessive over nudity. This repression of what is a natural part of life has lead to what is probably the hornyiest (is that a real word?) bunch of teens anywhere.
3) I know I had at least 2 other important points but they seemed to have slipped my mind (and what a slippery mind it is....) so look for a follow-up post by me if you liked this one.
As a long time user of the internet, frankly I cant live with out it (I actully go into witdrawl when i don't read slashdot regularly) I have a few intresting anecdotes about the isp's i've used.
The first isp I used was a local company called Internet Maine, (this was back in the day of the 486), there I had all sorts of problems getting on finaly it came down to me having to manually input all the inits and commands everytime I wanted to log on. A very time consuming process just to get on the poor web pages that existed at the time. Finally I grew tired of this huge process I had to go through to very little info, and cancelled the servise.
A few years later I tried an up and coming service known as AOL, I was ammazed by the quality and ease of their interface. However i was also amazed that I had to re-dial for a good 40 min just to get on, an even more time consuming task that that which I had previously endured. But the quality was good, and so I stuck with AOL until an incident, in which much of my private user information was made public including cc#, phone #, and address. I was swamped in spam, and credit fraud. I promptly canceled my AOL account and have since not reccomended them to anyone.
A year or so later I again went through a local isp called Megalink who offered me cheap rates in exchange for paying in advance. The installaton process was a real pain, and the stupid thing greys out the save password button (this wouldent be a pain but megalink makes you have a 10 char password that is case-sensitive and must include symbols). Im currently still using Megalink even though the best connection I ever get is 36.6 with my 56k v.90 modem.
Now as I work for an Internet Support Provider I am suppost to get discounted rates to Megalink, however I am still 6 months away from having to renew my yearly subscription.
Through another buisness connection with MSN I can get free acess, but of course there is no local number in my area.
And on another note there wont even be cable acess in my area for another 2 years, because im not in Time Warners zone, and thus have to wait for there competitor to offer cable service.
Anyway if this my story make any diffrence in the world, thats all I was aiming for. Sorry if its bad, its only my first post here, and obviously spelling isn't my thing.
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As one of the most knowledgeable students i get alot of special privlages and help make alot of important decisions regarding the computer situation.
My first year here the school was dominated by old mac(intrashe)'s, the next year a pc lab was opened. We are currently using Win NT 4 as a file server, and im working on a project to get ftp to work with it (im trying to use the war ftp server).
I pretty much run the schools web server, an ancuient mac running webstar. We have been trying to get the money to get new computers and servers as well as maintian what we have, but the budget keeps on shrinking every year.
Im also working on a test insallation of linux, (redhat/mandrake) but have had no sucess with it.
Anyway SCHOOLS NEED MONEY FOR CPU'S
and as i submited earlier but it wasnt posted...
SEVENTH GRADERS DON'T NEED LAPTOPS.
Welcome to the real world, theres no such thing as a free, reliable, secure, no ad, easy to use golden ISP in the world.
Theres always a fee, (membership, or phone). or
You can never get where you want (busy,404 etc.)or
Your info ends up all over the net (spam) or
You are totaly bombarded with ads (console) or
THE ISP JUST PLAIN SUCKS!!!
What kind of people actully play gurps???
Well most of the ones i know were geeks, nerds, or general social outcasts like myself. It would then seem obvious that people of these nature are prone to using computers. Thus they are more likey to get intrested in their high-end uses.
I as a hacker (if you think hackers are bad you need to get with the real world, oh wait hackers build the real world....) know that playing gurps and any other rpg is nothing like real life, and enen the best versions really can't teach you jack about being a hacker (good), a cracker (bad) or any other of the sterotypes we are currently using for ourselves.
RPGs dont teach people to hack, crack, phreak or any other thing, there just games! The Feds were way out of line attacking STG that way.
Well I have an number of points I'd like to bring up (yes I know a few have alredy been said, but i like my list better)....
1) There is no, nor will there ever be a filtering or security program that can block everything. Sorry its just physically impossible to make it work with the shere volume of new web pages every day. There will always be sites that havent been either rated (a common filtering system uses rateings to decide which sites can be acessed) or sites that simply dont uses explicit urls or meta tags.
2) Anyone stupid enough to try and look at "obsene" (yet to be defined) in a public library deserves to get caught and thrown out. Im sorry to say but a public library means that the public can see what your doing and like it or not the American public is obsessive over nudity. This repression of what is a natural part of life has lead to what is probably the hornyiest (is that a real word?) bunch of teens anywhere.
3) I know I had at least 2 other important points but they seemed to have slipped my mind (and what a slippery mind it is....) so look for a follow-up post by me if you liked this one.
Jainith - as always a horrible speller.
As a long time user of the internet, frankly I cant live with out it (I actully go into witdrawl when i don't read slashdot regularly) I have a few intresting anecdotes about the isp's i've used.
The first isp I used was a local company called Internet Maine, (this was back in the day of the 486), there I had all sorts of problems getting on finaly it came down to me having to manually input all the inits and commands everytime I wanted to log on. A very time consuming process just to get on the poor web pages that existed at the time. Finally I grew tired of this huge process I had to go through to very little info, and cancelled the servise.
A few years later I tried an up and coming service known as AOL, I was ammazed by the quality and ease of their interface. However i was also amazed that I had to re-dial for a good 40 min just to get on, an even more time consuming task that that which I had previously endured. But the quality was good, and so I stuck with AOL until an incident, in which much of my private user information was made public including cc#, phone #, and address. I was swamped in spam, and credit fraud. I promptly canceled my AOL account and have since not reccomended them to anyone.
A year or so later I again went through a local isp called Megalink who offered me cheap rates in exchange for paying in advance. The installaton process was a real pain, and the stupid thing greys out the save password button (this wouldent be a pain but megalink makes you have a 10 char password that is case-sensitive and must include symbols). Im currently still using Megalink even though the best connection I ever get is 36.6 with my 56k v.90 modem.
Now as I work for an Internet Support Provider I am suppost to get discounted rates to Megalink, however I am still 6 months away from having to renew my yearly subscription.
Through another buisness connection with MSN I can get free acess, but of course there is no local number in my area.
And on another note there wont even be cable acess in my area for another 2 years, because im not in Time Warners zone, and thus have to wait for there competitor to offer cable service.
Anyway if this my story make any diffrence in the world, thats all I was aiming for. Sorry if its bad, its only my first post here, and obviously spelling isn't my thing.