School 0, Me 1

[Lead Head]

Normaly if i wanted to use the internet at school, i had to use IE. The computers had a program that wiped everything that was changed/added upon reboot. so trying to install Firefox was pointless. But i got an idea from someone, to install firefox onto your network folder/drive. I tried that and it worked. so now i dont have to reinstall firefox whenever i want to use the internet at school

[Aloone_Jonez]

Watch out, if I remember rightly the admin would search the user areas for executables every now and then and remove them. You might be able to install it on a USB stick, I'm sure this'll work with Opera but I don't know about Firefox.

[Lead Head]

It works for firefox too. I will try installing opera tommmorow. maby even gaim or trillian;)

[Aloone_Jonez]

Watch you don't get caught or it'll be school 100023021 you -2423423890 - they'll probably ban you from using the computers.

[Lead Head]

other kids do worse things :-P, like printing porno out on the laser printer, yes someone did that

[MarathoN]

I did this at college as well, I downloaded Firefox and installed it onto the network drive, they haven't found out yet, as far as I know (I'll know when I get back from the christmas break )

[Aloone_Jonez]

other kids do worse things :-P, like printing porno out on the laser printer, yes someone did that

Yes, I remember someone printing porn too but they weren't caught, were the kids you're talking about ever caught? I bet they would've been banned if they were.

[Lead Head]

no they wernent caught, did you know anyone that got banned from installing firefox? firefox doesnt get through the web site blockers so, i am really doing nothing wrong, the rules only said i couldnt install anything to the computer i didnt'. i installed it to my network drive. Anyways forefox is dog slow, because the server is a junky compaq pentium 2. possibly dual CPU

[cymon]

Those web site blockers are just a proxy, I believe. If you can find out the proxy the teachers use, for unlimited access, just run firefox on that one.

[Lead Head]

its hardware based website blocking

http://www.8e6.com

[Aloone_Jonez]

no they wernent caught, did you know anyone that got banned from installing firefox?

Firefox wasn't even around when I was at school, Netscape had only just lost to IE and Mozilla was still very new.

[worker201]

Shit.
When I was in school (and I mean when I was a senior in high school), our computer labs were full of one-piece Macs.  As far as apps went, they had word processors, Macpaint, and a pathetic graphical version of Risk.  They weren't connected to the internet, because the internet was still only for physicists at that time.

In 6th grade, I learned how to program in Logo and BASIC for the AppleII.  The gui was still a Xerox-PARC wetdream back then.

[Refalm]

Normaly if i wanted to use the internet at school, i had to use IE. The computers had a program that wiped everything that was changed/added upon reboot. so trying to install Firefox was pointless. But i got an idea from someone, to install firefox onto your network folder/drive. I tried that and it worked. so now i dont have to reinstall firefox whenever i want to use the internet at school

I install Opera everytime I get on a school computer. It's installed fast and I have a file with all my settings on my network drive.

The same goes for FileZilla and Proxifier (which is awesome if your school blocked ports to ftp, vnc and runescape).

[Jack2000]

network drives?
where can i get some info on using
network drives with "Kaiowas" ... i guess you do not know
what a "Kaiowas" is ... well it is a 32bit Gui shell
like a second level of desktop which prevents you from installing/uninstalling/and running unouthorised programs and if you disconnect the pc from the main net framework it just shutdowns and refuses to boot until you reestablish the connection with the server pc !!!
we actually have things like THAT on every pc in my school !!!
((

[Aloone_Jonez]

Never heard of it and I can't find it on Google.

Is this a Windows network?

Can't you run programs of flopies or CDs?

One way is to open up IE and enter A: in the address bar, no you can browse the A drive and load any program or you could use a VB script in Word or any MS Office program.