Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lightning Blue on March 19, 2004, 02:53:42 PM
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I manage a small network at a school, and today I rebooted one of the PC's and the CD-ROM drive sounded like a woodchipper.
Took it apart and found a chewed up playing card.
GRRRRRRRRR. :angry:
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OLO :D
they are young, and foolish, let them frolick and fix there mistakes, and when the get to agregious complaing and teach them not to mess things up
=3
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The problem is, this isn't fixable. It's a slimline CD Drive that dell quit making years ago.
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damn kids.
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get one of those things that, you know, keep kids off the computer. whats it called...er....a nice large combat knife!
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What kind of playing card was it?
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I don't like kids much, I look at kids now and say is that how I acted when I was a kid ,, arrgh.
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Lb heres the trick to keeping the bad kids away from the computers at the school: Install Lunix, not only will it keep all the stupid IM kids from messing up anything, you will also be able to catch the smart kids and show them the beauty of games.
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Lb heres the trick to keeping the bad kids away from the computers at the school: Install Lunix, not only will it keep all the stupid IM kids from messing up anything, you will also be able to catch the smart kids and show them the beauty of games.
No offense, but I can't tell what the hell you are suggesting. Are you suggesting Linux? In which case what are you talking about games for? Or are you suggesting NS so they can play on Lunixmonster? In which case that is a stupid idea.
Plus neither solution prevents them from putting playing cards in the CD drive.
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Well, how about a big sign that says "THIS IS NOT A DECK SHUFFLER" then?
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Please excuse me, today I haven't had the best command of the english language. What I mean is that if kids understand how to use the Lunix operating system Lb could easily teach them how to play games
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Well, how about a big sign that says "THIS IS NOT A DECK SHUFFLER" then?
personally i think this is the best solution to your problem if and only if the kids know how to read :help:
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well, for one, you can move the cdrom back a tad, take the plastic cover that covers the drive bays, saw off the insets, get double sided tape, tape it to it, and if done right it will look like there is no cdrom bay.
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Glue the CD drive shut. Seriously, what the hell are they going to use it for? If you ever need it just plug a backpack drive into it :p
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electrify the keyboard. Whenever they go to type something, ZZAPP! 10,000 volts goes through their fingers.
Ok, so it would be illegal, but still funny.
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electrify the keyboard. Whenever they go to type something, ZZAPP! 10,000 volts goes through their fingers.
Ok, so it would be illegal, but still funny.
Daresay where you'd find 10,000 volts in a school?
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How should I know? I just come up with the brilliant ideas, I leave the rest of you to work out the minor details.
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when dealing with kids your two greatest tools are fear and love =D
for example... when they use the machine correctly be super nice and friendly to them.
As for stuff you don't want them to do, tell them evil stories about them. Like that time a kid tried to put a playing card in the CD-ROM drive; he got his hand caught and machine tore his arm off... he bled to death before the paramedics got there, cold and alone ~cackle~
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Umm, so the CD drive is borked? Get a new one, the school pays.
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Network the computers to a cd-rom tower.
that is, a large metal box with a lock on it and network capabilities, storing several cd-rom drives.
My school avoided this problem by not having cd-rom drives on the computers themselves, but using a cd-rom tower and access any information from there.
Need to install a new application? unlock the box with your uber admin key, pop the cd-rom into 1 of 10 cdroms, map the drive, and install away~
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I like Bogglesteinsky's idea.
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tell all the kids that gremlins live in cd trays
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Has it been determined what kind of playing card it was?
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just turret farm the computer. that should keep the kids away until they gestate into mechanics.
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Well, how about a big sign that says "THIS IS NOT A DECK SHUFFLER" then?
personally i think this is the best solution to your problem if and only if the kids know how to read :help:
If that's the case, this image should strike fear in to their hearts.
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Oh, an actual playing card?
I was thinking along the lines of Yugioh or Pokemon or something...
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Oh i thought he meant Magic the Gathering or so.(LoTR or Star Wars)
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LMAO!!! 3 friends of mine wheile we were in Visual Basics class used to take apart Hard disk drive thingies, replace the black circle mem thingy with a strip of sand paper. U put it in the HD and when it loads the Sandpapaer sparks and melts the HD/insides of the comp. 1 of them sparked and started to smoke slightly. (i didnt do this but all 3 of them got 8 days external and had to pay for damages on 4 computers.) some crazy stuff
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I think you mean a floppy disk perhaps? I could see your friends sneaking and popping those open and replacing the media, maybe. Somehow I doubt they'd be able to sneakily open a computer, remove the hard drive, use the proper torx drivers to open the casing, take the discs out, replace them with sandpaper, and manage to put it all back together without someone noticing. Although that would be quite an accomplishment!
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its during class, they put them into the F drive, u know, when u insert a floppy disk into the drive? u dont have to take apart the computer to insert a floppy disk into the H or F drive. they did in fact do it. i guess i described it wrong but im here first hand. Theyd put the sandpaper in the floppy Disks and insert them into the drive
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I find Diablus' story a little hard to believe. :ph34r: What I find hard to believe is that his friends were able to open the floppy disk in sucha way that they were able to both 1) open insert a piece of sand paper into the disk so that it spun (it would have had to spin if it were to cause sparks) and 2) (which i find to be the most unbelieveable part) beable to get the ruind floppy into the disk drive itself. <_<
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you dont have to believe anything. if you lived in my town you would most likely hear of this incident too.
Also, explain to me how i could cut 1/4 piece of construction paper, fold it in half. prey open the bottom of a floppy disk, take out the small black disk and stick the contruction paper in there with a slight bulge in the middle?. Now if i wanted to i could easily jam it into a floppy drive, then goto open> H or F drive and have it run. dont belive me? go and try it yourself.
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I find Diablus' story a little hard to believe. :ph34r: What I find hard to believe is that his friends were able to open the floppy disk in sucha way that they were able to both 1) open insert a piece of sand paper into the disk so that it spun (it would have had to spin if it were to cause sparks) and 2) (which i find to be the most unbelieveable part) beable to get the ruind floppy into the disk drive itself. <_<
What's even more unbelivable: What sort of pinko school has computers with the floppys as H and F?
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What's even more unbelivable: What sort of pinko school has computers with the floppys as H and F?
true, so very true. what kinda silly system admin would have the floppys as H and F? i mean who does that?
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pfft.... mainline a 9-volt to your motherboard, watch the sparks fly!
that poor, poor 486
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omj stop b0rking computar boxes!
when I think about it, making sandpaper floppies is probably possible... floppies split very easily, and you can prolly take the black disc off the metal spool and put sandpaper on the spool instead...
*contemplates*
now I too need a junk computer to test it on =p we should see how many ways we can b0rk a computer at the same time...
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*cough* (http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/WEAPONS/diskbomb.txt)
Dont blame me...
My comp lab at school has kickass comps, so theres no way I'd do anything like that to em..
We just got new ones this year :)
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*cough* (http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/WEAPONS/diskbomb.txt)
Dont blame me...
My comp lab at school has kickass comps, so theres no way I'd do anything like that to em..
We just got new ones this year :)
there's something like that on one of the really old phr*ck's (i dont know if we're allowed to talk about them)
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Heh, these are the reasons why the nub schools should put the comptars which they want to LAST behind LOCKED doors, I mean at my elementary school everyone would break the Macs, just because it was quite easy to do and everyone hated those slow POS's. But at my high-school people just bust off crap from all of the comps, don't know why either...... Lock up the comps I tell you!
Gum seems to be a very common weapon used against comps also @_@.
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olo, that person with the gun in that strip is LB <3
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What's even more unbelivable: What sort of pinko school has computers with the floppys as H and F?
welcome to the wonderful, money greedy rich school of commack who enjoy investing its taxpayers money into TV's in each classroom that no teachers ever use and a dukane system that cost a few thousand and does nothing but cause problems for teachers. and i don't know much about computers, now tell me. what are the floppy drives "supposed" to be called hmm?
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A: always to the A: XD
the second usually gets shunted into the almost never used letter: B
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diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:
... methinks
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diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:
... methinks
definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it :D ) and D: was the CD drive
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Interesting, I've never used my floppy drive. And people said Apple were crazy when they released the iMac without one.
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definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it :D ) and D: was the CD drive
sounds like my old computer
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- the cd drive :p
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What is the point of a CD drive then you couldn't even fit an entire CD on your hd? :blink:
Oh.. yeah.. I forget.. "back in the day" they ran programs off CDs.. and hardly used the entire CD.. 7megs does not validate the usage of a CD.. 70.. maybe.
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500MB HD on a 286? And a CD drive? Woaaaaaaaah?!
I hope something in there is a typo, or you've seriously got your update priorities mixed up.
And why does 7 megs not validate using a CD? Rather have 5 floppys? :p
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diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:
... methinks
definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it :D ) and D: was the CD drive
Does that mean my 2Ghz P4 with Windows XP is old?
<3
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[...]7megs does not validate the usage of a CD.. 70.. maybe.
Oh yes it does. Just because the maximum capacity of a CD is far greater than a floppy, it doesn't mean that you have to use the floppies if you can, and only the CD when necessary. A CD is:- less sensitive to outside influences (heat, cold, magnetism)
- more durable even under perfect storage conditions (show me the floppy that lasts five years - I know mine usually didn't)
- way cheaper to produce
So once CD drives became common, there was no real incentitive to release games on floppies anymore - they were more expensive, and more prone to failure. Add the huge storage capacity and you have an instant winner.
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500MB HD on a 286? And a CD drive? Woaaaaaaaah?!
I hope something in there is a typo, or you've seriously got your update priorities mixed up.
And why does 7 megs not validate using a CD? Rather have 5 floppys? :p
Actually, he said 286mhz, not the 286. Wait...did they even make a 286mhz processor? Clearify plz!
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Ah, probably the Pentium 266 - thats not even remotely old though. Thats more like just a bit obsolete :p
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P266, in computer terms, is ancient. Yes, it was only really only a handful of years ago, but in the computer world you might as well be talking about an artifact from the middle kingdom of egypt.
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Well, CDs dont last very long either.... I mean they explode when they spin too fast o_O.... and writable cds tend to deterioate.... gg.
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Well, CDs dont last very long either.... I mean they explode when they spin too fast o_O.... and writable cds tend to deterioate.... gg.
cds also explode when you cover them with firecrackers
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386's explode when you try to install XP on them...mwhahahha
We installed 98 on a hd, and then put it in a 386... that was funny... it didnt work verywell... it only worked enough to tell us we "STOLD ITSH MEGAHURTZ!"
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Its funny as hell, if any of you have seen the show Starcade, sometimes shown on TechTV. Sometimes the prizes are 'brand new' computers (for the time of the show that is, which was at most recent sometime in the 1980's) with *Gasp* 128 kb of hard drive space (woah!).
:lol: