My school's IT department

[suburb]

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

I will tell you the reasoning that is most common.  Bandwidth.  Even with how stupid that sounds it is completely stupid and they should feel stupid.  But then again a large portion of my school is still stuck in the 90's in some scenario.  I.E. the video studio built in 1994, still there.  Our lighting system runs on windows 95 with 15 mb of ram.  We run final cut pro 6, newest is X.  Our broadcast media department has had so little money our budget for buying updated microphones to interview people with was 20 dollars.  We just raked in 800 dollars from an indoor marching band concert I created and packaged up today.

[Ad Bot]

[Squideey]

omg ur so smart

[Night Fox]

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.

you'll have to pick one, I guess. personally, I would show them how to fix a certain problem themselves, the first time or two, and then refuse to fix that particular one anymore, and say that they should ask the person who knows, or to risk breaking something trying to fix it themselves

[suburb]

you'll have to pick one, I guess. personally, I would show them how to fix a certain problem themselves, the first time or two, and then refuse to fix that particular one anymore, and say that they should ask the person who knows, or to risk breaking something trying to fix it themselves

Then again, as I see it personally, it could be a gateway to a future job.  They have joked around before but sometimes seem pretty serious about it so in a sense it'd be smart to continue helping them out with what I can and impress them.

[fred da kiko]

My IT department is great, all the computers run fine and if there's an issue with one of the more advanced computers, such as the ones in the business ed or web design/coding classes the teacher there knows how to fix the hardware. There are smaller, crappier computers in some classrooms but most people never use them, and the ones in the media center are usually only used to write papers and do research, so the hardware is almost never strained.

[Kumquat]

Our school has windows 7 on every computer, except it has allot of disabled features and they set the style to windows xp.
Silly, "IT"

[Ben Grapevine]

The IT from my high school was this guy in his mid 50s that thought he was being all slick and modern but barely knew how to login to a computer.  He wasn't even the school's IT, he was the entire Minneapolis schools IT

[Trifax]

We have d630's standard for laptop carts, and netbooks to go with. They suck, but wahtever. We just got new PC's for the library and several classrooms. Here's the kicker:

My school is getting an ipad for EVERY student next year. We already have carts full of ipads in leather cases throughout the school, now we're going 1 to 1. Yes. It's happening. loving crazy.

[Blocki]

>get windows 7 recovery disk
>make bootable USB drive with it on it
>unlock administrator account
>log in
>????
>profit

Get the netbook/pc/whatever
Check whether it can boot from cd / usb
If yes, continue

Install ubuntu/whatever linux on cd/usb drive
Boot your computer from it and choose "try out linux", do not install it
Now use this to copy c/windows/system32/cmd.exe to utilman.exe (make a safe copy of this, you cant get it back if you dont!)
Shut down ubuntu and boot pc normaly
Click the "help thing" in the left corner, a cmd window pops up!
write in these 2 lines
net user administrator /active:yes
net user administrator blah
Close cmd window, restart computer
Now log on the admin account with the password "blah"
Do whatever stuff you want

Don't forget to delete the new utilman.exe and get the safe copy back because the cmd window is a huge security risk and yould also get you fired from school for hacking

[Maxwell23461]

what
WHAT

Nothing is different or wrong with vista anymore, chances are you haven't even tried it.

[devildogelite]

One of the IT guys from my high school is going to the same university for the same major.  At least I'm almost positive it was him, unless he had a brother. But he did talk about my high school and doing some IT there when he was in highs school.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

At least my school's IT department is smart enough to not upgrade to Win 8.
it suckssssssss...

[Maxwell23461]

At least my school's IT department is smart enough to not upgrade to Win 8.
it suckssssssss...

A faster OS on your computer, why the hell not?

[GEN.Fire Bird]

A faster OS on your computer, why the hell not?

It is far too new, and does not support 50% of the stuff my school has installed.
nor does the IT department understand anything about it.
I am glad.
I get to keep minecraft on their PCs this way(ThinkCenter's from Lenovo run it quite nicely.)

[Demian]

Reading this thread fills me with the rage of 10000 suns

Seconding this.

My school's IT guy is never there but then again, he doesn't have to. Anything hardly ever breaks. Oh and we have dual booting comps (win7/mac <animal> <number>) and our media lab is cooled by air conditioning. Our school's financial status is pretty average in Finland and a rich kid's pocket money by global standards.

Tech wise our school isn't so bad actually. Teachers aren't complete idiots either.