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| Thread ID: 85665 | 2007-12-18 02:47:00 | Schoolboy gets detention for using Firefox | SKT174 (1319) | PC World Chat |
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| 622292 | 2007-12-19 04:25:00 | One of my friends at school has a copy of Linux on his flash drive. Boot from it, and the school can't track you. :DOnly as long as that computer isn't connected to the Internet through the school network. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 622293 | 2007-12-19 09:33:00 | One of my friends at school has a copy of Linux on his flash drive. Boot from it, and the school can't track you. :D That's based on a false assumption that booting off a flash drive magically changes the MAC address of the PC's network card... |
somebody (208) | ||
| 622294 | 2007-12-19 09:42:00 | One of my friends at school has a copy of Linux on his flash drive. Boot from it, and the school can't track you. :D Pretty silly admins that allow booting from anything other than the HDD. BIOS should have a password on it too. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 622295 | 2007-12-20 02:57:00 | Detention for using Firefox? Millions of users have had far worse punishment every week for using I.E. ;) |
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| 622296 | 2007-12-20 03:15:00 | ^ Zing! | Enigmur (10547) | ||
| 622297 | 2007-12-20 04:12:00 | You don't have to boot you can just run Firefox Portable from the flash drive. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 622298 | 2007-12-20 09:33:00 | At course (not school, not uni, sort of a middle ground), we run whatever we want, although all the good computers run Win2k with some restrictions (aka I need to ask the tutor to log me in as the admin so I can install stuff). I am bemused that they haven't got firefox installed normally (most students run Internet exploder, and version 6 at that. One day they will discover tabs...). I don't understand why schools use IE anyway, but it ain't called a monopoly for nothing. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 622299 | 2007-12-20 10:50:00 | i remember the days of computers at high school where it was a constant battle with the security measures to the point where it became a challenge to get around them then i get to uni and OMG i can right click again! and they have both ie and ff installed! and i'm yet to have any issues withs ecurit at all - they encourage the use of flash drives and the dvd/cd drives are usable too.... though there is complaints that for some reason youtube doesn't count for people's data usage; so you get twats sitting on machines in full labs browsing youtube while you actually need a machine to get some work done/print some stuff /sidetrack that detention was a hoax, very obvious too |
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