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Tekkie®

posted for all of us...

On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:16:05 -0600, wrote:

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:45 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/9/2016 6:13 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:

You can use Thunderbird as a portable version on a flash drive and take
your groups with you and not have to be confined to using GG.
That works if the USB ports are not blocked by the security settings.

Bingo!

No external media allowed.

I can charge my smartphone via USB but that's about it.

Some commie outfit trying to keep the spies out eh. I'd not last
working for a big corporation.

For a brief time I worked at a "temporary job", a company where I had to
use a computer and contact a list of businesses, to make sales of their
products. This was in 2001, and we had Windows 2000. We could access the
web, but they had most popular websites blocked. (for example ebay). I
learned that it was blocked in the HOSTS file. But we could not modify
the settings within Windows. I easily got around that, using the DOS
command line, and within minutes I was able to access any website. So,
while others were sitting there bored (between our actual work), I was
shopping on ebay and looking at humorous pictures. I began saving some
of those pictures too. which would get everyone in the office laughing,
because I found a way to also send those pictures to others on the
intranet (not internet), which was just within our building.

The boss never caught on to this the whole time I was there. Soon this
job (being temporary), came to an end. Before I left, I wanted to clean
up my computer, but wanted to save those pictures. We could not use a
floppy (I tried) in those computers. That was simple enough, I just
emailed all the pictures to my own email address at home. Then I had to
once again go to the command line (Dos) to delete the pictures and
restore the original HOSTS file (which I had backed up). When I left
that job, the computer was the same way I got it.

I was always surprised the techicians who maintained the network never
caught on, however if they did, they probably just looked at those
humorous pics and laughed and never said anything to the management. I
actually think they did know, because one of them was always cracking me
up with jokes and I rarely saw him do that with other employees.

I'm sure its not as easy to tamper with modern operating systems, but
Win2000 was pretty easy to tinker with.

I am amazed that the people today seem to think the time they get paid
for at work is theirs to dick around on and that they seem empowered
to modify software on a machine they do not own to do it.

+1 In the skool system I worked for the teachers would take them home for
months and use their home n/w. They would ave their spouses 'Oh he works
with computers and knows what he's doing'. They wouldn't even bring them in
when they had an in-service and it was required. They would come over and
beg for one to use. Never tell a teacher or administrator no. All clouds
descend upon you. We had one boss that we had to ask for every individual
case whether to re-image it or try to fix it. Then the teacher would stand
there like 'what's taking you so long?' and pouting. It was THEIR
computer...

I will stop my rant here before all nod off.

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Tekkie