Re: [ProgSoc] Email convention

[Antony Mawer <antonym@nospam.optushome.com.au>]

Andi Halliday wrote:
> I can so relate to that. I can actually quote my school's sysadmin as saying
> "I don't know what I'm doing." (he was highly incompetent) and somehow i
> don't think that playing CS and Q3 from yr 9-12 helped the network much,
> especially as we configured the netowrk to suit us. schools have a habit of
> killing computers in stupid ways. but that in itself probably stems from
> ignorance.

Oh, don't I know it... The company I work for looks after the IT side of 
things (to varying degrees) for about ~230 schools in NSW, and we'd all 
be millionaires if we had a dollar for every time one of the schools 
tried to do something themselves to save a buck, and wound up creating a 
horrid mess.

Of course, this is where the problems come in, and things sooner rather 
than later start to fall to pieces. Contrasted with the schools with a 
competent admin, or those whom we have regular service contracts with, 
where things tend to run reasonably smoothly.

And yes, you pesky little brats who riddle the computers with warez'd 
games and viruses are a real nusiance ;) The number of times we've been 
building images and found games "hidden" in the various \windows\system 
directories...

Mind you, I remember back in my early high school days I inadvertantly 
ended up causing havoc by being bored and poking around on the Z: drive 
that mapped to our Netware server. There was this fun little command 
called SEND that I found I could send messages to other workstations. Of 
course, it wasn't long from then until everyone found out, and the poor 
ladies at the front office started complaining about all the popup 
windows they kept getting when kids decided to use broadcast messages.

Oops! :)

They soon "solved" that problem by renaming the .EXE to .EX~. It never 
stopped us copying it to a floppy disk and renaming it back... it 
stopped the 0-clubies though.


-Antony


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