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Ruth

27th April 2004, 10:39

When i was at college, they banned the use of IRC and the forums on the library computers, so of course everyone still used them, but then they disabled them. So i left college.
I think tbh, the only thing i looked forward to was getting to use the college computers to spam, it was sitting at the college computers i worked my way into the top 5 posters, and i was one of the reasons he staff disabled post counts, so as soon as college disabled it, i lost all motivation and went to get a job instead.

Optimus

27th April 2004, 10:50

so u went to college just to use the net connection?

waster :)

Mamacita

27th April 2004, 10:57

Perhaps you should have chosen a course you wanted to do, or change if you soon found the one you had started to be crap, or perhaps even... tried?

Ruth

27th April 2004, 10:59

Well, no, not just for the net, i did have lessons every now and again, but i lost intrest in them quickly, so being able to doss on the computer made college worth going to.

And then i met boys and was introduced to beer and parties and i decided i need money to go see more boys and to get more beer and to go to more parties so i got a job.

Ironically, i find the more i work, the less money i have.

Wish i'd stayed at college now, put the work in, stuck at it, made life worth living, but i just, tbqfh, cnbfa.

:(

Optimus

27th April 2004, 12:23

if you cant be arsed to put the effort into something, dont moan about not doing it...

Kahless

27th April 2004, 13:12

On our college network, multiplay forums are filtered. One USB key and installation of Mozilla later :D

GeeDee

27th April 2004, 13:14

Your college have one **** network if that evades their filtering policies.

TimmyNoShoes

27th April 2004, 15:00

All colleges have **** network resources, i think its actually on the agreement policy that they agree to uphold its ****ty standards.

oxy

27th April 2004, 15:05

mmmmmmmmm BEER

Kahless

27th April 2004, 19:06

Originally posted by GeeDee
Your college have one **** network if that evades their filtering policies.

RM network. Don't need to say anymore.

LordPhil

27th April 2004, 19:30

I don't see the point in going on the net much in 6th form / college. I decided that the time used to post pointless comments would be better spent down the pub or in bed (that included ICT lessons) :D

Mingtea

27th April 2004, 19:55

Originally posted by Kahless
RM network. Don't need to say anymore.

ahh yes RM.

One floppy disc and poledit later....

Steadders

27th April 2004, 20:07

how can i get irc at college? ;)

as for doing work, i dont think so.

college is clearly not the place for work, and if it is, its not during lessons.

btw, did anyone else do AVCE ICT?

LlamaMan

27th April 2004, 20:29

Originally posted by Steadders
how can i get irc at college? ;)

There are some online java/CGI IRC clients available, otherwise get a shell account and telnet/ssh in and use BitchX or some other text mode IRC client

If they removed 'telnet' from the start menu and disabled 'run' then typing 'telnet://' in the browsers address bar usually does a good job of getting a telnet client open, if it needs SSH then you will need 'putty' or similar and most schools/colleges block you from downloading exe or zip files, the solution - upload to free webspace and rename, then download the renamed file and rename it back to the original...huzzah

Brings back memories of getting MSN at school *cackles*

Steadders

27th April 2004, 20:45

the technitions at our college do scare me a bit...our college has a pretty high budget IT centre, best in the south aprently.

all the computers run on novell (http://www.novell.com/)

they seem slightly dappy though, so i could proberbly get away with the ol' "i didn't really know what i was doing, it just did something when i pressed enter"

which almost worked at school...

LlamaMan

27th April 2004, 20:52

I got away with using a DOS disk to get around some of the restrictions using the 'accidental' excuse before :D

GeeDee

27th April 2004, 21:08

Originally posted by Steadders
btw, did anyone else do AVCE ICT?

Unfortunately so, and believe me I feel your pain. :)

Biggest load of crap i've ever done. I just managed to stick out the 2 years, but that course was certainly not one of my better decisions.

If your in your first year still and have the same opinions about it as me, i'd bin it and take computing (or anything else besides AVCE). Thats probably what I should have done in hindsight. However if you think you can stick it out & get the work done, good on you. :)

Giles.

Steadders

27th April 2004, 21:16

i'm not finding it to tough at all, the work is easy, and when i finished my work/doing it later, i just play internet games or spin around on my chair (always fun)

the modules im good at (the ones that are mildly creative and actually involve some thinking) Im getting A's in, and the rest C's, so i dont see the point in dropping now, since were getting AS computing "free" as well, were covering all of it this year anyway.

(those 2 subjects being web design and programming btw :p)

what did you find so crap about it? other than not learning anything of course...

Jedi180

27th April 2004, 21:30

i did the AVCE in ICT at college, although it was the 18 unit advance jobby. found it was a complete waste of time, learnt sweet FA, but it got me into uni, so thats all good ;)

GeeDee

27th April 2004, 21:44

Originally posted by Steadders
i'm not finding it to tough at all, the work is easy, and when i finished my work/doing it later, i just play internet games or spin around on my chair (always fun)

Oh no, my compliant was not against it being tough. I just can't stomach "ok, here's two weeks to create a letterheard for an imaginary company. Now write 10 pages on how you created it" - and on and on and on in the same way.

I think a tiny amount of the VB was stuff I hadn't covered at school; everything else I have been doing for years and I wasn't the only one in the group in the same situation.

Originally posted by Steadders
the modules im good at (the ones that are mildly creative and actually involve some thinking) Im getting A's in, and the rest C's, so i dont see the point in dropping now, since were getting AS computing "free" as well, were covering all of it this year anyway.

Well done, your probably getting it taught to you in a very different style than I got. My course culminated with the two deputy principals literally yelling at me because, "they believed I had the ability to 'hack' their network and cause damage" and therefore they did not want me bringing my laptop in any more and wanted me to to sign a piece of paper stating that i would 'be good', to which I took great offence, as they had absolutely nothing that i'd done in the past to put against me.

Seriously, well done for sticking the work out. I could have coped with the insane write ups & mark scheme if I was learning something at the same time, but I wasn't even doing that. They even asked me to teach them how to do the hardware module and set up the machines for it; they didn't have a clue.

Interesting to know it's being taught much better elsewhere.

:)

Giles.

Steadders

27th April 2004, 21:50

that sucks, im glad im being taught fairly well, but i see what you mean with the letter head module, 7 assignments all using different fuctions of microsoft office...great....

but my teachers are good as well, particualy one who is sort of an old techie, he was on the orignal team that invented the hard drive, so in most lessons i spent a fair bit of time talking to him about old hardware and how it all came about, very interesting really :)

andyf

27th April 2004, 22:16

Mmm college what a lovely, distant memory that is.

Strangely, it seems I went to the same college as Afty. Think we missed each other by a year or so.

First year was BAD. They had Windows 3, which meant dubious Winsock utilities and old old slow clunky netscape. And a 64k line, shared by lotssssssss of pc's

I quit at the beginning of the second year. Which was a shame, because they got a 3mbit microwave link to a better network. Never mind, it was still Windows 3 and nutscrape :) BUT we could play Network Quake 1 :)

edit - oops, I did actually do some work at college - an "advanced gnvq in Business and I.T." ah well.

Zenith

28th April 2004, 01:08

I got on with my course lecturer so she was generally okay with me "abusing" the PC facilities as long as I got on with *some* work in the session.

FTP was blocked at the proxy and yet it seemed that my account (and ONLY my account on the Computing course) had FTP access to Internet. I set up an FTP server on my home PC and just mapped a shortcut to it in my college network drive. Whenever I was doing work at college, I was actually saving it direct to my machine at home. I wouldn't be surprised if my lecturer had "Had a word" with the Systems people to allow me certain protocols out of the proxy.

Oh yeah, I also used my micro-installation of Phoenix which the proxy server didn't know how to deal with. :)

Killy

28th April 2004, 05:30

I did AVCE IT and stuck it out for the two years, unfortunately i'm easily distracted so i didn't get a very good grade :)

but screw that i'm now doing the ccna which I hopefully will be able to do something with :p:

Brains-Lans

28th April 2004, 08:00

Well I did the AVCE IT with Giles, but managed about a year and then went '**** this'.

I am now 3/4 of the way through a CCNA and intend to keep paying out for 'real industry qualifications' until i get the experiance i want.

Steadders

28th April 2004, 18:41

oo, no slacking today, had 2 peices of coursework to hand in!

the excel module is so stupid.

i spent about 4 hours making a fairly basic Excel program, then we spent the last 4 months documenting it in 65 pages.

it would have been quicker to send the examiners a disk with the program on it.

LordPhil

28th April 2004, 19:25

I have two pieces of coursework to give in tomorrow. ICT is sorted but English coursework I need to get down too.

Steadders

5th May 2004, 22:48

opps, forgot about presenting information coursework...thats a D for me in that module now...

KBB

6th May 2004, 06:42

Bet you would have remembered if you werent playing games all day :)

tiSSue

6th May 2004, 07:50

im doing a BTEC ND, and its bearable, but i guess we're actually doing **** all atm, watching a few linux demo's then doing the stuff on friday! and we're actually only doing about 14hours a week now too!

oh well only about 7 weeks left lol

Kahless

6th May 2004, 17:47

Documentation shouldn't need to be written. Ever.

Aerodynamic

6th May 2004, 18:12

Originally posted by LlamaMan

Brings back memories of getting MSN at school *cackles*

I wanna get msn at college, got it all copied onto my account but im having trouble finding a proxy for it to go through..
It would seem the college lets students get information using IE through a certain ip on port 80 so i tried directing it to that but it says somethin like disallowed so perhaps the network will only recieve information through that ip on internet explorer :/
Tried port scannin the network for all proxy ports but ive tried 20/500 and it seems i can only get a response from the internet one..

Suggestions anyone? Using Windows 200 pro if its any use :)

KBB

6th May 2004, 19:10

Go out and socialise ;)

Steadders

6th May 2004, 20:01

i played frisbe for 6 hours in the sun :D

Aerodynamic

8th May 2004, 13:11

high_towe

9th May 2004, 19:49

you lot have it easy, try and go to uni and do no work like ur doing atm. You will find out that its a very different story. *me bangs head on desk*. Only two pieces of 50% coursework for tomorrow morning am. I can do it, pass me the red bull.......

TE-Hellfire

9th May 2004, 19:53

Originally boasted by high_towe
two pieces of 50% coursework for tomorrow morning am

Check dis shiznit out muzza facka:

I had a 14 page A3 visual project to create analysing the city centre of Cardiff, with maps, extensive text and drawings. I was given over 2 months to do this.

I began the night before it was due in at 7.30pm and finished 9.30am the next day, handed in and passed. :)

Kids at school have it MUCH harder than Uni students.

Steadders

12th May 2004, 10:35

ugh, im so bored, so far today i've had 2.5 hours of playing on internet games because ive finished my work. SO bored.

Pingman

12th May 2004, 15:11

Originally posted by Jedi180
i did the AVCE in ICT at college, although it was the 18 unit advance jobby. found it was a complete waste of time, learnt sweet FA, but it got me into uni, so thats all good ;)

Thats the ****er im doing, its so ****!
steaders what colelge do you go to?

LordPhil

12th May 2004, 20:15

Got me ICT coursework back today and got an A, while the average for the class was between E and C so im quite happy :)

Zeuseh

12th May 2004, 20:59

ill be the odd one out :D

BTEC ND In Media: Audio / Radio Strand :D

Miez

12th May 2004, 22:27

Originally posted by TE-Hellfire
Kids at school have it MUCH harder than Uni students.

Um? Do you mean Uni students have it much harder than school kids? or is my life going to get a lot easier next year? :)

Jedi180

12th May 2004, 22:58

lots of people do think its easier at uni, but it certainly isnt for me !
college i thought was fairly tough, but not uber hard.
My course at uni is so intense, if you miss a couple of lectures, ur screwed, they steam on ahead with the rest of the course and you have to spend alot of your own time catching up :)
It might be easier on other courses, but this year just gone, has been so hard for me, i've never looked forward to the summer so much before :)

Steadders

13th May 2004, 21:23

Originally posted by ping-man
Thats the ****er im doing, its so ****!
steaders what colelge do you go to?

alton college, hampshire. its got great IT stuff, all P4s with plenty of ram, graphics and 15" TFTs (2 rooms with all 17" TFTs)

Kahless

14th May 2004, 18:24

Originally posted by Steadders
alton college, hampshire. its got great IT stuff, all P4s with plenty of ram, graphics and 15" TFTs (2 rooms with all 17" TFTs)

You're lucky then.

Witney college - complete crap systems. 833MHz, 256Mb RAM running Windows XP. They take half a lesson to log on. And are then really slow and have loads of problems.

her0n

14th May 2004, 18:31

Peter Symonds College > Alton College :rolleyes:

TimmyNoShoes

14th May 2004, 18:43

Alton has colleges? i figured it was just fields, forests and a theme park.

tiSSue

14th May 2004, 18:44

ye, shame its a different alton!

Pingman

16th May 2004, 16:01

they blocked all caht programs at my college so i use netmessenger or something, its a webpage based version of msn messenger. But omg does it lag like a whore, about a 2 min delay in sending replys to people lol. Still, better than no chatting. All i need to do now is get a web version of IRC k thx

Aerodynamic

16th May 2004, 16:12

Originally posted by ping-man
they blocked all caht programs at my college so i use netmessenger or something, its a webpage based version of msn messenger. But omg does it lag like a whore, about a 2 min delay in sending replys to people lol. Still, better than no chatting. All i need to do now is get a web version of IRC k thx

http://www.mouselike.org/index.php?mouselike=liveexec

you may find alot of G/K-lining going on but if you find a less busy quakenet server then youre sorted

Nivek

16th May 2004, 16:51

cheers for the link

Pingman

17th May 2004, 00:58

omg you are the man, i am trully in love with this web page irc i jsut tested it now and i will most certanily use it at college !

Aerodynamic

17th May 2004, 13:56

GeeDee

17th May 2004, 16:35

Originally posted by Aerodynamic
http://www.mouselike.org/index.php?mouselike=liveexec

you may find alot of G/K-lining going on but if you find a less busy quakenet server then youre sorted

It makes no odds which quakenet server you connect to; quakenet has no k-lines; it's g-line only. The way it works with public cgi-irc servers is that 6 users connect, it g-lines you for 2 hours; in 2 hours you will be fine again until 6 users connect. Repeat. Mouselike will be g-lined 95% of the time, especially as it's now been posted on this public forum.

Your best bet is to set up your own cgi-irc. It's freely available here (http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/) - but you'll need a *nix based box to host it on. And if you do host one, password protect it. :)

Giles.