darkzar99
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Ok, I will post it here once I sit down and take the time to write it, hopefully within the next week or so
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As far as i know there is no boot menu key, one isnt displayed but I didn't rent that computer this year so its not that important to me right now
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Ok thanks eveyone, actually i was going to write it and sign it as one of my parents but actually I think this way would be better if I did it with my name, then also gave her contact information for my parents in case she needed to contact them
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What a bunch of pricks!!! Even with the school laptops, nothing is going to stop knoppix or another boot CD from being able to take out the network at classroom range.
Fortunately I live in a smallish town, and we have a great IT department, its just that the most computer savvy students (me) can always find a workaround, and by the time the average noob finds out about it, its blocked up.
I happen to be freinds with the district administrator, after job shadowing him for a day, which is kind of a good way to pentest the network without getting in trouble. I get thanks more often than not,
Our district has almost all Mac computers, which are great for schoolwork, and run UNIX, so hey I'm not complaining. On day I get the bright idea to old <apple><s> on startup. Whuddayaknow?
I get into sigle user mode, or unix command line, and basicly have the power to do anything.
I tell my administrato, and he says that it is unlocked because its a pain in the ass to fix something when it breaks if you disable single user mode. Since nobody in the district knows jack shit about unix, besides myself and the admin, there isnt really a problem there.
[end of pointless story]
Actually, there is a super high secuirty BIOS password and removing the CMOS battery wont clear it, the only way people have found to clear it is to short the pins on the motherboard, even teh default "dell" bios password doesnt work, so CD booting is blocked, it only allows HDD, even when you disconnect the HDD
My laptop got seized last week; I'd love to stand up for myself like you say moonlit, but they make us sign a contract which pretty much gives them the right to do anything.we sort of have something like that, its called the internet and network usage agreement, I refused to sign it, but even if you dont sign it the rules still apply to you, which is stupid
They really can't legally take your stuff... Especially since, although in your posession, your parents bought.I'd change my MAC and change the name of the laptop to match what your other one was...
the reason i got caught i think was because I changed the MAC address to match that of the one they loaned me, but I didnt change the name, so the server thought it was legit but when they looked at teh logs they found out
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Ok, I am going to send an email to the head IT person of my school district, I need some guidelines on what to say and/or how to say it, I want to sound like I am being serious and so that she will take me seriously, any suggestions? See my other post if you don't know what I am talking about
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Also, don't rely on the "teacher's permission" to do anything related to the network, as they likely have no more right to make that call than you do. If you can, get a written statement of approval by the highest IT authority in the school (and keep a copy with the computer). If you can't, don't connect your own computer to the network.
actually the teacher that would do it is one of the network administrators at my school, and my parents are supposed to talk to the hightest IT authority of the county about it also for this year
also the thing that they dont get is, they told me that if i do this then it opens the entire network to me so i can do whatever i want, they also said the only way i could bring my own computer is if i purchased a laptop the exact same model with exact same specs and paid them to put all the restrictions and software on it, but the thing they need to learn is that if someone wants to screw with the network nobody can stop them, no matter what computer they are on, it doesnt matter, by them giving laptops to every student they are opening the network to everyone, it just takes more steps to gain full access
So what do you have to say for that?
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but you see, thats the thing that pisses me off, there was about 8 other people in the entire district, about 5 of them went to my school, and they did the EXACT same thing that I did, but just so they could play games and not get caught, and they LET them do that even though the administration knew about it the entire year,
moonlit: if that happens again this year i am not going to let them take it, that was back in the day when i didnt stand up for myself as much as i would now
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Ok, here's what happened, last year:
The school that I go to lets us rent laptops to use throughout the schoolyear. The software they put on them and all the restrictions really make it horrible. They say that they help you learn more but in reality it makes education worse.
I kept getting tired of the computer breaking and having to have it in repair for a week or so, meaning i could not do any work on the computer at school.
I got tired of this because it had been about 3 monts into the schoolyear and it had to be in repair about 5 times already, for software issues and hardware issues. So my parents and I decided that this had to stop. So I was going to use another laptop that I had at my house at school. So since they use MAC address filtering on the school network I had to change the MAC address on teh wireless card on MY laptop to connect to the internet at school
This worked for about 6 months until they caught me, the technology specialist at our school came to my class and had to take my computer, and they was like "how did you get yoru computer to connect to the internet" and I said "changed the MAC address", and I told them that the only reason I brought my own computer was because I wanted to be able to do my schoolwork not only at school but at home as well, because they have a domain set up so your documents by default are synchronized with their server so 90% of the time you cant access them at home. They told me that they had to take my computer because using your own computer in class is the same thing as a cell phone (to them)
So then that started everything and for the rest of the schoolyear I had to go to meetings about it and stuff and I think it calmed down a little bit, but now its a new schoolyear and they told me before that they do allow students to bring their own computer as long as they dont connect to the network, basically because they dont trust us. So I am in a class that uses our laptops this year, I didnt pay to rent one, and we need Internet and Command Prompt (which is blocked) so I may need to change the MAC address (with the teacher's permission) and get back online. thats why i wanted to know
btw the pepole are n00bs, they say you cant bring your own computer and be online because its like having a cell phone on in class, but they WILL let you bring one but NOT get online. It is stupid and I am not going to give up, as of right now I just take my ThinkPad and I am remaining offline, but I needed to know because I may need to get back online this year sometime, just dont know when yet.
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Someone told me that here in the United States, it is a federal crime to change the MAC address on a wireless network card, I told him that I didn't think this was true because I have done it before and have gotten caught (long story) but didnt get in trouble...so am I right?
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already searched google, no luck, everything is too outdated, myspace just recently encouraged users to switch to flash player 9, as in i think a few weeks ago or so
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http://www.epicgaming.us/n64_oc/howto.php
yes i have seen that, the instructions are not very clear for the n64, and it looks a bit outdated
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I'm not sure who else would like this but I would love to see a full complete guide on overclocking game consoles, (Preferrably N64), I have seen some guides on the internet but none are fully complete and its sort of hard to figure out everything when it is either in German and google can not translate or it is just partial tutorials. Just an idea, I dont really expect it to be in a show anytime soon though.
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You were correct Sparda, it was the hardware rendering not being used, i used the guide i posted before and now x-moto runs great and the video is like it should, thanks! however i am not using the ati drivers, its the fglrx i believe is what its called
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no from ati.com, if i reinstall the drivers according to the ubuntu wiki would that make a difference?
edit: i will try this: https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/hardware.html
i ran the first command and it said that 3d accelleration was not enabled so something isnt right
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Ubuntu, so how can i determine what is causing it or how can i fix it
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ok i installed x-moto and the game does play, but it is extremely slow, its like trying to play tuxracer on an old pc, the sound in the game skips a lot too
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it is choppy, or i guess you could say that the framerate appears to be super low, i guess you would say that it is rendering the frames too slowly so it ends up skipping some, the audio is fine but the video looks horrible, like i said before this video plays fine in windows, im thinking that it has to have something to do with the drivers because the screensavers are running extremely slow too
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Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection
if you need the code from the xorg.conf.original file i can post that too
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here is the device and screen sections, im not really sure what im looking for, or if it is all correct, like i said before, when playing video in vlc media player at normal size the video is almost as good quality as playing in windows (not 100% best though) and when i full screen or change size it starts looking like lagging streaming video
heres the two sections:
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X700 Pro (RV410)" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:6:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X700 Pro (RV410)" Monitor "SDM-S74" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
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ok i got linux all set up on my computer now, and I downloaded the latest drivers from ATI for my card, and also installed them, but when i watch video in VLC in full screen mode, the video plays as if there are no dirvers installed. how can i check to see if i have the latest drivers? or is there a different set of drivers that are recommended to be used in linux?
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i havent installed it yet, im getting ready to
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Ok, i have 2 hard drives, in a computer, when windows was on it I would use the master drive as the c: drive and use that to store all programs on, and the d: drive (slave) for all my data, (pics, music, docs, video), when i set up the 2nd drive, where should i set the mount point? also if it is in e.g. /DATA if i have to format the master drive to reinstall linux or something will the slave drive still ahve all data on it?
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