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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:10:04
I once crashed a computer and the Blackboard network on the first floor of the main building by copy and pasting the name Robert Vojack over and over in Microsoft Word for upwards of 28,000 pages, then saving to a file simply called "Robert Vojack" and then copying the document till it was several gigs then sending it to the teacher through Blackboard. The name came from the poster on the wall behind me, that computer was never used again for the remainder of the year, nor was Blackboard.
EDIT: I think it was actually over 200,000 pages. It was A LOT of copy and pasting.
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By Asura.Calatilla 2014-11-19 19:16:13
I need to buy a wireless router because the one I have keeps losing connection when downloading. Anybody know of a decent make to look for?
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:18:47
I once went through all the computers in the Video Editing class and changed all the home screen icon labels to "Floppy John was here." It became a kind of Kilroy-esque joke that a few of us would put in random places with no explanation as to how it got there or who put it there. They had to move a broken soda machine one time and behind it on the wall in brown marker, "Floppy John was here." even I have no idea how it got there.
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:20:03
I need to buy a wireless router because the one I have keeps losing connection when downloading. Anybody know of a decent make to look for? Stay away from Netgear. I'll probably get a Belkin soon.
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By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 19:28:26
I once crashed a computer and the Blackboard network on the first floor of the main building by copy and pasting the name Robert Vojack over and over in Microsoft Word for upwards of 28,000 pages, then saving to a file simply called "Robert Vojack" and then copying the document till it was several gigs then sending it to the teacher through Blackboard. The name came from the poster on the wall behind me, that computer was never used again for the remainder of the year, nor was Blackboard.
EDIT: I think it was actually over 200,000 pages. It was A LOT of copy and pasting. That's odd, and it doesn't make sense to crash blackboard for only one section, blackboard is usually hosted offsite, and not limited based on just that localized network, unless it blocked the router/switch that it came from, but still unlikely.
I need to buy a wireless router because the one I have keeps losing connection when downloading. Anybody know of a decent make to look for? Stay away from Netgear. I'll probably get a Belkin soon. Eww on both.
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:30:06
I once crashed a computer and the Blackboard network on the first floor of the main building by copy and pasting the name Robert Vojack over and over in Microsoft Word for upwards of 28,000 pages, then saving to a file simply called "Robert Vojack" and then copying the document till it was several gigs then sending it to the teacher through Blackboard. The name came from the poster on the wall behind me, that computer was never used again for the remainder of the year, nor was Blackboard.
EDIT: I think it was actually over 200,000 pages. It was A LOT of copy and pasting. That's odd, and it doesn't make sense to crash blackboard for only one section, blackboard is usually hosted offsite, and not limited based on just that localized network, unless it blocked the router/switch that it came from, but still unlikely. It's possible something happened that was a coincidence. Either way, it went down and the computer guy didn't know how to fix it and we never used it again.
By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 19:33:27
Blackboard? or the computer?
either way, it sounded like your IT guy was a moron.
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:34:45
Blackboard? or the computer? Yeah. It was a program that was installed and used to send computer projects to the teacher's computer for grading.
EDIT: Both, and yeah, he was odd.
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2014-11-19 19:36:34
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By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 19:41:56
Blackboard? or the computer? Yeah. It was a program that was installed and used to send computer projects to the teacher's computer for grading.
EDIT: Both, and yeah, he was odd. Ah, we use blackboard here but it's all web based, so that doesn't make sense from this perspective, but if it were a local app then maybe, but it still seems a bit off.
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:44:52
Blackboard? or the computer? Yeah. It was a program that was installed and used to send computer projects to the teacher's computer for grading.
EDIT: Both, and yeah, he was odd. Ah, we use blackboard here but it's all web based, so that doesn't make sense from this perspective, but if it were a local app then maybe, but it still seems a bit off. It seemed local to me. She also had the ability to take control of our computers.
By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 19:45:53
Well that isn't too difficult, there's been software for that for over a decade. I wonder, I mean it's possible to make a network ran bit look like it were a local install, we were doing it to bypass the fact that the one program was being run on another domain and they didn't want to make a domain trust.
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 19:56:43
Ours looked very primitive, there were no tests in blackboard, it was basically just a program that sent files to her computer via the LAN, you'd boot up the program and sign in and choose to send a file to the admin PC, you could receive comments from the admin (teacher), and you had a chart that shows your grade which she never seemed to use. I don't think it ever actually connected to the internet. You can also share files via LAN by putting said files in a shared location. That was how we maintained multi-day projects with no seating chart...it was in everyone's best interest to get a flash drive though.
By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 20:01:40
Hmm, I wonder if it's from the same company, /ponders.
By Fyyvoaa 2014-11-19 20:15:38
I remember one day in my networking class... some guys from IT came into our room and took over a few computers saying they were trying to pin down some kid doing 'bad' stuff in the computer lab right next door (it was through a door adjacent to ours)
Long story short.... he got busted jerking it to some nasty porn.
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2014-11-19 20:16:04
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By Sylph.Chrisstreb 2014-11-19 20:22:55
Boycott Snow!
(specially if you're in NY!)
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By Asura.Ackeronll 2014-11-19 20:26:19
Boycott Snow!
(specially if you're in NY!) Send it south to Maryland ; ;
By Jetackuu 2014-11-19 20:29:52
I remember one day in my networking class... some guys from IT came into our room and took over a few computers saying they were trying to pin down some kid doing 'bad' stuff in the computer lab right next door (it was through a door adjacent to ours)
Long story short.... he got busted jerking it to some nasty porn.
This is why you static set IPs, so you know exactly which computer is doing what. Also: define "nasty porn."
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By Bismarck.Misao 2014-11-19 20:32:34
Boycott Snow!
(specially if you're in NY!)
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By Sylph.Chrisstreb 2014-11-19 20:47:47
Boycott Snow!
(specially if you're in NY!) I see what you did there Misa :)
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By Bismarck.Misao 2014-11-19 20:58:55
minefield~
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 21:07:21
I could see myself marrying a woman this crazy.
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By Shiva.Spathaian 2014-11-19 21:09:32
translation: she's Asian and I want her. :x
*hides under bed*
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By Anna Ruthven 2014-11-19 21:14:40
translation: she's Asian and I want her. :x
*hides under bed* She's also crazy in a funny way. If I wake up and my S.O. is talking to her shoes, I know it's going to be an entertaining day.
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This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
Inb4thisthreadgetsreallywtf
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