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Yup, our new school network ppl are officially not-very-good.

Yesterday, I found a new shortcut on the desktop. Naturally, I had a look at it - first I just ran it, and it tried to make me install Quicktime. So I started it doing that and went to have a look where it was pointing to, and found a new computer on the network, named LaCie_NWbox (might not have got the capitalisation quite right there). As it didn't show up under Network Neighbourhood I thought it might be worth looking at, so find-shortcutted to it. It contained three shared folders (which I thought were prolly drives) - one of them had the program the shortcut was to on it (LoTR movie-cash-in 'educational' software - I had a play with it later, but the utter pantsness of the 'colour in the characters' exercise that wouldn't even fill areas right disgusted me so I gave up), one of them had the Encarta CD in, and one of them had an info CD about the computer itself. Turns out it's a network server with a LCD display and web-interface admin tool, which serves CD images (which it, according to the documentation, it stores on it's massive 60MB HD - I'm *hoping* they mean GB). Read through some of the docs, and found the bit where it talked about the web interface and the default admin password. So I thought 'well, why not?' and pasted the network address into IE. At first it wasn't having any of it, but when I entered just the computer name it came up with the page it said it would. So I told it to give me the admin controls, typed in the defaults, and hey presto, one web interface for adminning our LaCie Network Box...

If I'd've wanted to, I could've - deleted everything on the box; changed the Administrator password so no-one could get in (and this *means* no-one, the highly limited LCD interface means no sorting it out from console, they'd prolly have to send it off to be wiped); shut down the box; renamed it so nothing could find it; deleted the 'guest' account so nothing could use it until restored; and prolly all kinds of other nasty things I didn't poke far enough to find out.

What I *did* is leave a calling card (in the form of a new admin-privs user, which will show up in the logs if they ever bother with them...), thinking I'd check back in a week or so to see if it's fixed.

After that, I'll bring it to their attention and see if they need any help setting such things up properly :-)

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More colour changes on my friends list - Firinel is now 'orange' writing (closest to autumn-orange I could find) on 'green', and Ahsu is black on 'brown, tan' because it was a colour that wasn't entirely wrong for her that I don't already have. (I'd got fed up of trying to guess who it was on their entries, 'cos they're often long ones that I couldn't see straight off...)

Also ripping some more CDs, but I think I was a bit over optimistic on how many I could get done tonight, due to forgetting I was going out. Don't really wanna go, but only cos I'm lazy.

Had a tired day today - pathetic, one hour late to bed and I may as well write off the rest of the week. So I wasn't as happy as yesterday, but when I remembered to be anything at all I was still quite happy, and being sleepy helped with lessons 'cos I was perfectly capable of not doing anything for as long as necessary...

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Some randomness from Talia:

( Warning - *very* random... mostly a collection of odd words )

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I found the autumn leaves I intended to scan, still taped to the page, all faded and spoilt. All the ones still on the ground are spoilt too, and very few were still on the tree last I looked, maybe none now.

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28th Nov

I found a shiny! My nana gave me it - a shiny new 2001 5p piece!
So I put it in the charity envelope. They won't really notice my shiny, or notice how shiny it is, but it made me feel shiny, and moods are one of those things you can give away without losing, and so are more important that shinies you have to lose to give.

But my shiny mood didn't last, 'cos I got bitten by the Uselessness Bug again. Grr. Why won't it just go away? Sure, I could be doing thisthisandthis, but I wouldn't do thisthisandthis very well but those are just excuses...grr. Mother said that it was better to just live in world for God like I'm doing already 'cos Paul in bible says to go and earn living instead of just holy-huddling and ppl often critised for not doing stuff I do by default (tell ppl you're Christian if asked, tell about going to church if asked what did on weekend, have nonchristian friends (could do with some christian ones but ohwell) etc) but I just feel that everyone says about dedicating all your time to God and I dedicate most of my time to schoolwork and net stuff, and the God bits get squished out. Grr.

./~ Some people say that each day's one step closer to death
I say that each day is just one step closer to life
To understanding and everything being alright
So in conclusion have I made my decision clear
With every passing moment of my life this year
Well not exactly so that's what I'm doing here
...
How do you break a habit formed in your mind?
...take the shells from your eyes
Then enjoy life and maybe even relax, even relax... ~\.

Song in my head this morning - One Step Closer to Life, by mxpx. Good songy. Yayness.
So much for the 'relax' part tho, I'm suddenly informed I have some computer graphics to produce by, uh, last week, and we have an unscheduled meeting tonight I prolly can't make again 'cos we're going out... and tommorrow I might have more unscheduledness. Ahhh, life. *grins*
And I've got precisely the wrong files on my Psion and accessible through school computers - want them to be the other way round... (ie ones on Talia on school network + vice versa). Still not unhappyifying tho.