Playing games at work/school

[arizark]

i just wanted to know peoples ways of getting around your boss/teachers when working or schooling if your playing web based games like runescape. i work at a internet cafe so i dont have to worry about things like that but it would be interesting to hear people tricks that they use to make their supervisors oblivious :D

[pompey_spud]

Well, in school, we have a few games.

 

For example, in Spanish, when our teacher takes us out the room one at a time for oral practice *stop s[racist term]ing at the back*, she tells us if she see ANYONE talking, we have to have the practice in front of the class (which no one wants because we all suck, and it would be embarrassing). And so, we make orchestral versions of good songs by whistling, and general making noise without moving our mouths...

 

 

 

Oh, and in history, we play 'History Cricket' (imaginative, I know). Me and my mate, versus another pair of friends who sit opposite us always, the second the teacher turns his back, get out the scrumpled ball of paper, and our homework diaries, and bowl and bat away...

[Revenga]

Our computers are all installed with iChat or something like that and our teacher is an idiot and knows nothing about computers, so we all sit around and talk in chat rooms with each other. :

 

 

 

 

 

Our internet blocks almost everything, even the IP sites like Pimpmyip and all those sites that let you get onto any site.. it's lame.

[Zonorhc]

Back in high school, my software design class all had Quake (the original!) on our USB drives. When there wasn't any work that needed doing, because we usually finished all of that several weeks early, we'd fire up a 16 player LAN game or two in the room.

 

 

 

One time, our teacher joined in, too. She got pwned.

[pompey_spud]

Ooh speaking of computers, just before we broke up for half term, my and my friend were looking for a way to get the printer to work on a non-administrator computer (ie, the ones we use). And during that, we discovered how to actually get into the school's main servers, with access to everything, stuff like CCTV footage, and people's records.

 

 

 

So much fun to be had with a schools CCTV footage around the girls' boarding house...

[Zonorhc]

Well, okay, so my thing wasn't exactly getting around the system or avoiding the notice of teachers.

 

 

 

But it's close enough. We got our teacher to play Quake with us.

[The Dark Lord]

We just go to http://www.teagames.com or some other little site to play games if we have done all of our work. The teachers don't care.

 

 

 

Anyways @ Pompey Spud: British people are usually bad at Spanish orally? Where I live we're not that bad, but I just can't pronounce rr. :oops:

[pompey_spud]

 

Anyways @ Pompey Spud: British people are usually bad at Spanish orally? Where I live we're not that bad, but I just can't pronounce rr. :oops:

 

We ain't so bad at the oral, its just that our teacher's prefered method of teaching is to give us a giant pack of vocab, and tell us to learn it by 3 years later... -.-

 

 

 

And so, the entire class isn't fabulous at it.

[Bubsa]

I remember when I installed a Sega Emulator with a few classic games on the school computer's "K Drive", pretty much a drive everyone could access, I was a king :D

[The Dark Lord]

I remember when I installed a Sega Emulator with a few classic games on the school computer's "K Drive", pretty much a drive everyone could access, I was a king :D

 

 

 

I got an SNES emulator from a friend via MSN. lol

 

 

 

I only have Chrono Trigger for it though. :(

[____]

I remember when I installed a Sega Emulator with a few classic games on the school computer's "K Drive", pretty much a drive everyone could access, I was a king :D

When I was at school, myself and around 6 other people installed around 14 different games with network capbilities to it.

 

 

 

 

 

It took them 3 years to find them and even then they couldn't prove it was us since we never logged in with our own logins when we played.

[highlanders]

They block it. Proxys don't work. I can't download any program to go around the security, it's hopeless haha

[Guest XplsvBam]

I told everyone in school how to net send and how to change the administrators password. I almost got expelled :lol:.

 

 

 

No but really it was ridiculous. Microsoft has all these "fail safe" ways to access a computer so you don't loose your data, result is a very insecure OS.

[LeonardMart]

well my teacher doesnt give a sh** about what we do in class. we play rs, other minigames, chat, some ppl view "adult sites" and the teacher doesnt care hes cool 8-) he even gave me an adiminstrator account :D

[Bauke]

I can play RS at the university I'm on. Pretty neat. :) It's not officialy allowed, but I doubt anyone cares.

[hellbellz]

I have a better chance of finding a $1,000 bill on the ground than find a way to go through the internet proxys and crap like that from my computer. We can't even look on Google Images. :roll:

[Make7upu101]

I have a better chance of finding a $1,000 bill on the ground than find a way to go through the internet proxys and crap like that from my computer. We can't even look on Google Images. :roll:

 

 

 

We sort of have something like that. It's incredibly intense security. Wikipedia's even blocked.

 

 

 

Some kid in my sci vis class gave us all warcraft 3 on our flash drives so we play that these days. My teacher cares but doesn't do anything to stop us. The best advice I guess I could give would to keep your finger near alt+tab.

[xXru1n3dXx]

I told everyone in school how to net send and how to change the administrators password. I almost got expelled :lol:.

 

 

 

No but really it was ridiculous. Microsoft has all these "fail safe" ways to access a computer so you don't loose your data, result is a very insecure OS.

 

Net send is really annoying at our school. Everyone who does it thinks their a wizard. Funny though because some teachers are actually walking up to the computer labs to tell off the people who do it and threaten them with not being able to use school computers anymore.

 

 

 

As with games, I just use my flash drive to play games such as Virtual Cop. The admin (teacher) accounts have a program though that can see what all other users in a computer lab is doing, so thats rather annoying.

[Randox]

I recently found out that even though most filters will block game sites, the actual server addresses for runescape are not. I only use this trick if I'm stuck at my parents office for a longtime and want something more exciting than solitare. Also tip.it is blocked, but the fourms arent, which is nice :

 

 

 

There is more than knowing server addresses to play runescape, but I wont say what, that would be breaking the rules in this case I think ,might have alredy said to much :ohnoes:

[Faux]

I recently found out that even though most filters will block game sites, the actual server addresses for runescape are not. I only use this trick if I'm stuck at my parents office for a longtime and want something more exciting than solitare. Also tip.it is blocked, but the fourms arent, which is nice :

 

 

 

There is more than knowing server addresses to play runescape, but I wont say what, that would be breaking the rules in this case I think ,might have alredy said to much :ohnoes:

 

 

 

Can you PM me, I wanna know :o

[Nadril]

When I was in high school I'd sometimes play games when I couldn't be caught. Web page design was probaly the easiest class to play games in, everyone did it and class was a pushover class :/.

 

 

 

At work though I don't dare do it. Instead I just have some webpages opened up in tabs while I work. (WoW forums, TIF, Digg, Something Awful [i've been lurking there recently at work >_<])

[indy500fan]

But it's close enough. We got our teacher to play Quake with us.

 

 

 

Oh yeah, playing Quake 3 with my computer teacher was awesome. He wasn't all that great of a teacher, he knew a decent amount about computers but not much about teaching.

 

 

 

Interesting thing about high school was I ended up "going to the principals" office, which is like getting in trouble, 3 or 4 times. I've never got in trouble before, but people started naming me and this other kid whenever they got caught doing something they shouldn't be doing on the computers. Sure, all but one of the times it actually was our fault, when we told everyone who wanted to know how to get around everything.

 

 

 

By senior year we weren't telling anyone anything good anymore. We'd give them little things to play around with like telling them how to use net send, but of course we wouldn't tell them about batch files and if they messaged us to much they got it back hardcore :P .

[jjrox32]

At school, the security on the internet is pretty tight, but easy to break. Just use a proxy site to get to a proxy site to get to you're site :

 

 

 

Some kids save emulators and N64 games onto USB drives, along with Halo 2 vids. Mario kart is hard to control with a keyboard. :) The only thing you gotta watch out for is the Polish guy that patrols the room like it's a bank. For some reason which I don't know, the most dangerous part of tip.it isn't blocked (the forums) but the site itself is :-s

[indy500fan]

Everyone seems to mention USB drives, we didn't have those when I went to school so if you use them that is cheating :P . Ahh the fun stuff you had to do to get AOE2 to run when you don't have the rights to run .exe files :D .

[ThurinEthir]

My class often goes to the computer lab during Latin to play Latin games . But most people don't. My friends and I, we've sneaked on to a lot of games before...AddictingGames, RuneScape, Tribal Wars, Travian, etc.

 

Hint: Use tabs or extra windows. Unless your teacher is one who understands that kind of stuff, it usually works.

 

Oh, and I hacked my 5th grade teachers account once. It was fun.

 

(Now, don't tell my teachers. They'll get mad. And that won't be good.)