• Shaime (unregistered) in reply to Jaime
    Jaime:
    Tracer:
    I was really bored in my 10th-grade Webmastering class so a couple of friends and I decided to play around with "net send" in command prompt (for some reason we still thought it was hilarious shiznit). For the computer ID, I decided to put "1" followed by a short messaged filled with expletives that my friends and I thought was hilarious.

    Computer "1" turned out to be the workstation for the school's band director...

    <snipped some stuff about you being a certified expert in a completely defunct product>

    ..."1" is not a valid computer name for a Windows 2000 computer (reference).

    So, with the BS removed from the post, it boils down to "We were fooling around in computer lab and got in trouble".

    Oh Jaime, do you even bother to read the articles you cite when you needlessly try to tear another poster's anecdotes apart? Let me help you out:

    This is your reference Jaime:
    Windows 2000-based computers cannot have computer names that consist only of numbers. However, Microsoft Windows NT-based computers can have computer names that consist only of numbers. ... This restriction in Windows 2000 is for new computer names only. Old computer names (from Windows NT 4.0-based computers) are preserved during an upgrade to Windows 2000. ... Because of this, an upgraded computer can keep a all-numeric name
    So your reference unequivocally confirms the fact that it is perfectly possible for a machine on the network to have a net name of 1. It could be an old NT4 machine, it could be a Win2000 machine that has been upgraded from NT4, there are plenty of possibilities beyond your immediate assumption that everyone is lying about everything.

    Let me just say well done for being an expert in Netware, I'm sure it's very useful to be proficient in a completely dead product, but you clearly don't know as much as you think you do about Windows and you clearly have a bit of a problem with reading comprehension because that article you cited mentions the NT4 exclusion in the very first paragraph.

    Here's an idea for you Jaime - why don't you just try giving people the benefit of the doubt now and then? Even if you can't do that, maybe you could just keep quiet for once?

  • Rich (unregistered)

    I got kicked out of the library computer lab (circa 1997?) for a quiz program in Basic that turned the background of the screen red when you answered the question wrong.

    Screens shouldn't ever be red; what are you doing; etc... loss of library priveleges for a week.

  • (cs) in reply to Lod
    Lod:
    My junior year of high school, I was called from class to the principle's office. To my surprise, three policemen were waiting for me there. I was put in a police car and taken "downtown" without any explanation. After about an hour of sitting in a room by myself, the "head cyber security office" of the local university introduced themselves and demanded to know why I had been hacking their systems. I was quite surprised by the whole thing.

    This was the early 90s, somewhat pre internet.. the local university was on arpanet and had several dial up terminal servers called annexes that would let you telnet to arpanet sites once connected. they never asked for any authentication of any kind, or displayed any "for authorized use only" type of message. A bunch of us local nerd kids who frequented BBSes had discovered these and were using them to connect into MUDs. We honestly had no idea that wasn't OK.

    Nice. When I was in high school, the nearby university's math department had an IBM mainframe running CP/CMS. I got an account on it. CMS was almost as flexible with disk images as OS X is nowadays. Didn't take long to figure out that there were a bunch of backup volumes available in obscure, publicly-available places. Upon mounting and looking around, there was the password file. CMS stored it in plain text, space-delimited. Made for easy parsing with REXX's parse statement :) I ended up with a forced visit to their CS department's head with my dad. Amusingly enough, I was using the admin account to shore up their defenses -- moving publicly available password files and such back into volumes owned and visible only to the admin, etc.

    The machine was a bitnet node, and I used to hack the gopher client written in REXX on it. Sadly, it got decommissioned a few years later, methinks they sold it to a local social insurance division who was running a compatible system.

  • anonynous (unregistered) in reply to Ralph

    Found one. Informed IT. Got told to use IE. WTF? At least I did not loose my job....

  • (cs)
    No transferring information between computers

    There – I knew that the Internet is evil!

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