Share your best stories of being accused of hacking your school computer!
Anyway, my best memory of supposed school computer hackery was back in tenth grade.
My school gives out a MacBook to each highschool student, and the program was six years old by that time. The school hadn't replaced the laptops since. Needless to say, they're pieces of crap. My laptop had cracks all over the keyboard and trackpad, a common problem with older MacBooks, and the previous owners apparently didn't realise that manually rebooting a computer only makes a minor problem like running slowly, worse. I was scared that something would happen to all my files, because that thing could and would crash at the drop of a hat. In the first two months of tenth grade, it decided to finish itself, and make all the pain go away, I guess.
Luckily, I had all my important stuff on a flash drive, except for my music. It all went bye-bye. But, I knew a way to sync it all back to a computer from an iPod using Terminal. So, during a free period, I plugged in my iPod into my loaner laptop, told iTunes not to auto-sync (aka erase everything) my iPod, and opened up Terminal. After only 5 seconds typing in one line of code, the teacher behind me, an old, fat obnoxious man who didn't know anything about computers, saw that I had command line open and yelled at me across the room for "illegally downloading music", and hacking. He ripped my iPod out of my laptop, threw it across the room to his desk (missing it, by the way) and told me to go to the office for my "crimes".
I told the principal what I was trying to do, and, knowing that I was skilled in the computing arts, he let me off the hook. My iPod, by the way, was undamaged and I was able to resync the music on my computer. The teacher retired that year. Lousy old coot.
There's mine, what's your story?
Anyway, my best memory of supposed school computer hackery was back in tenth grade.
My school gives out a MacBook to each highschool student, and the program was six years old by that time. The school hadn't replaced the laptops since. Needless to say, they're pieces of crap. My laptop had cracks all over the keyboard and trackpad, a common problem with older MacBooks, and the previous owners apparently didn't realise that manually rebooting a computer only makes a minor problem like running slowly, worse. I was scared that something would happen to all my files, because that thing could and would crash at the drop of a hat. In the first two months of tenth grade, it decided to finish itself, and make all the pain go away, I guess.
Luckily, I had all my important stuff on a flash drive, except for my music. It all went bye-bye. But, I knew a way to sync it all back to a computer from an iPod using Terminal. So, during a free period, I plugged in my iPod into my loaner laptop, told iTunes not to auto-sync (aka erase everything) my iPod, and opened up Terminal. After only 5 seconds typing in one line of code, the teacher behind me, an old, fat obnoxious man who didn't know anything about computers, saw that I had command line open and yelled at me across the room for "illegally downloading music", and hacking. He ripped my iPod out of my laptop, threw it across the room to his desk (missing it, by the way) and told me to go to the office for my "crimes".
I told the principal what I was trying to do, and, knowing that I was skilled in the computing arts, he let me off the hook. My iPod, by the way, was undamaged and I was able to resync the music on my computer. The teacher retired that year. Lousy old coot.
There's mine, what's your story?
That teacher didn't talk to me for the rest of the year. 