My school's IT department

[Steve5452]

My friend, being a dumbass, opened up a computer and disconnected most of the hardware so the light just flashes red and it does multiple error POST beeps.
Computer tech came in the next day and was stumped. He tried inserting a disk (which I assume was Winblows) into the disk tray and gave up when it wouldn't open.
I had to reconnect it the next day because it was still broken.
The only possibility was a hardware issue and he didn't even think about checking it.

[Ad Bot]

[Headcrab Zombie]

In 7th grade I unplugged the ethernet cable from a computer
The next day it was gone; taken in for repairs

In highschool a lot of people downloaded pstools and there was nothing preventing anyone from using them against any computer in the entire school district
Also the monitors were set to a lower than native resolution and on these fancy adjustable stands. All the teachers yelled at anyone who adjusted the resolution or the stand.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

Wow...can i borrow your guy's IT departments?
i need a new monitor, and the one at my desk 3rd hour is slightly tilted to the side, it might be tossed by them.

[blockguy123]

Wow...can i borrow your guy's IT departments?
i need a new monitor, and the one at my desk 3rd hour is slightly tilted to the side, it might be tossed by them.

1. Press button on monitor
2. Find rotation on monitor button menu.
3 Move the (hopefully slider) to its normal position so your screen is straight
4. loving
PROFIT

[Aide33]

My IT guy stays in his office with his three monitor computer writing code for his impenetrable school network

You guys have it easy ._.

[Blooker]

Reading this thread fills me with the rage of 10000 suns

[Kalphiter]

"school's IT department"

All I needed to have read to understand the thread.

[fawkes..]

You can't really do that with a mac...

I assumed he meant with a PC, oh well

[dorkdotdan]

My school bought new dell computers with 3rd rate graphics cards with but one DVI output, then they go out of their way to buy DVI to VGA cables even though the monitors also have DVI inputs.

the motherboard also has a DVI output I should mention.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

1. Press button on monitor
2. Find rotation on monitor button menu.
3 Move the (hopefully slider) to its normal position so your screen is straight
4. loving
PROFIT

I meant it is physically tilted on the base, yes it is a flat screen.

[suburb]

Heres my school in a nutshell:

I do a majority of work in the video department/broadcast media department (they are the same deal).  I do extra curricular video productions as well as post production matters and organization of the video studio as well as helping out the broadcast media 1 class.  Our tech coordinator is pretty good when it comes to computer issues, but I have the amazing pull, if I find a way to fix the issue they actually listen and have actually come to me needing help.  I'm that guy in every class I have that if something isn't working everyone knows that I know how to fix something on the spot.  Sometimes I like to not help but only when theres subs, doesn't help if theres a teacher aide and they know me and tell me to fix it.  Other than that, our school has iPad 2's out the ass.  They bought, starting last year, 2000 iPad 2's with a 2 million dollar grant from the Minnesota board of education.  So far there is only enough for class rooms sets and a cart rentable out from the computer lab of them 40 or so.  Our broadcast media department applied for a grant and we got 13 iPad's as we didn't need more than that being as we don't have a terrible amount of use for them.  I've updated recently all 13 to iOS 6.  That was the biggest pain in the ass trying to get the passwords for the iCloud, as my teacher was supposed to know, he didn't, IT people, no clue was told they were supposed to know as it was their grant, ask the other grantees what the agreed account was, one gave me the email but no password, then I eventually got the password and had to log them all in after downloading the updates, took a while, I let them finish during thanksgiving break.  Other than that my schools IT department has a clue of what their doing but are complete website national socialist's.  This is the first year youtube is unblocked for students and last year they started but unlocking it for staff.  There is no way around their bullstuff website blocks.  You'd have to be loving solid snake to get past them and not have them see what your doing, unless of coure it's me and they don't care what I do on the network depending on the scenario.

TL;DR
School sometimes asks me for advice, website national socialists, I know because they have me do work for the school but I am not paid to do so except for extra-curricular activities.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

Can i have your life?

[Night Fox]

Heres my school in a nutshell:

you know you can just tell them "no," right
you aren't being graded for fixing their problems, or paid, which is exactly why you should tell them no, bc there is no way for them to punish you.
or, you could say yes, and just break even more stuff, but that's a much less moral solution so I don't suggest it

[suburb]

you know you can just tell them "no," right
you aren't being graded for fixing their problems, or paid, which is exactly why you should tell them no, bc there is no way for them to punish you.
or, you could say yes, and just break even more stuff, but that's a much less moral solution so I don't suggest it

Then again, I do get some benefits of being on the administrations good side and all that stuff.  It's nice when they let you get away with a lot of stuff in the school while others get in trouble for.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

I never got why Youtube was banned at most schools.
and still is at mine...