Sitting Here at skool, designing an OS, and Being a Geek

[keeper]

Have you ever done stuff at skool that skool is not for?
Design Apps, OSD. Have you ever got caught? I did!

I was at skool one day, in small business managment. i had a book in front of me, but i was not reading it. me and my laptop were having some quality time. i was designing my OS.

after i got caught, they took my loptop and in the next month i found my hard work and *life* on the net and all improved and stuff. the teacher who took it gave it to the computer teacher and he out it on the net for free gruttous!

have you ever had a at school experience?

[distantvoices]

There's a saying:

If one is so stupid to get caught whilst acting against the rules, he canna be punished enough.

Yes, I am merciless, lad.

Simply avoid getting caught if on "dark" ways. Keep the head down and act stealthy and silent - no bragging no hinting - you and only you alone.

I hope that you've learned this lesson already.

Oh, and btw: it's "school", not "skool". *winkwink*

[keeper]

i will now try to be steathy like beyond. so next time while at skool, i will do it right.

[CESS.tk]

Oh, and btw: it's "school", not "skool". *winkwink*

Oh, and btw: it's "cannot" or "can't", not "canna".

Hehe, sorry. I wouldn't normally mind. But if you're correcting people, you should expect other pedants to do the same to you.

[Oliver]

If i'd have a laptop then I'd certanly be caught at school when making my own game or website or whatever

[distantvoices]

@strangequark:
Here in vienna we say:"Geh mit deine eigenen schm?h hausieren."
*chuckle* Means: get your own jokes, lad.

I can afford writing in dialect for I know how it's written correctly.

[bubach]

as long as we don?t have lessons, nobody cares what we do (except hacking etc.. )

[mystran]

I've done plenty, but the funnies was when I designed a Line-of-sight algorithm for my (now old, never finished) roguelike project during a philosophy (or was it history, can't remember for sure, the teacher was same anyway) class.

Now, the funny thing was that I managed to get a good algorithm ready for implementation, and at the same time I had (for almost all of the class) an insightful discussion with the teacher and a few other students, being one of the people most actively following the lesson.

[distantvoices]

hehe ... I used to do paintings and drawings when sitting in school - and having to attend any talk of the teachies.

*shrugs* I 've earned good marks either way. They knew that I've listened to them despite the drawing, painting and doodling - it's just been that the stuff taught there didn't ... challenge me brain, so I busied myself with something else.

[eastsurfer]

studying in school now---a university in China.
and i have to study ,whether i like or not,from 7 years to 23 ,i must do. mostly we are teach to study for "our country,the sociey,the people",and .....now i even don't know i am study for what if i'm failed to get a job after graduation.
perhaps we(Chinese study)should taught how to survive in the world,first is "me",then others----No me,where is "others"?

only about half a year befor i graduate.....how time flies!
i will be involved into the society,it's just like a little boy come to a large city,happy,curious,excited,but he'll become a mature man,no longer a "BOY".

[distantvoices]

@eastsurfer:the difference between grown-up man and immature boy isn't that easy to determine.

Mostatime whilst growing up, I've found myself being just the same individuum as always, involved in a lifelong process of learning. Some say: suddenly I ve got grown-up. thats nonsense. growing up is a process. You get/achieve abilities. You learn.

It's sometimes the ability to be reasonable and to find consens with others in disputes which makes one appear grown-up. But mosta time it's like this: You make your decisions, whether they are good or bad, and you have to deal with the consequences of your decisions. If you can't - your bad luck, you gonna have a tough time to learn it.

[Kon-Tiki]

Was doodling and drawing around throughout secondary school. Teachers tried to catch me off-guard at those times, asking a question. They never did that twice, as I always provided full answer for them. Even once got a teacher to tear up a chapter in his cursus and tell us to toss it away, showing him how big a nonsense it is when he asked me a question 'bout it ;D

About that boy-man thing... asked that on a forum once. Answers were: "When you're 18." "When you're 21" and other such crap. Just shows all those people're not even boys, but infants. Even so, it takes more than being able to make the right decisions and accepting the consequences for whatever you chose, as you'll never call an eight-year old a man, while he can be fully capable of making rational decisions and taking responsibility for them.

[bubach]

Have you ever done stuff at skool that skool is not for?

right now i am using the schools broadband to download the newest Naruto episodes as fast as possible..

[dh]

There's nothing wrong with being a geek/hacker!! I drag my OSdev book around almost everywhere in case I have a few free moments of reading time. The rear cover of my english book (not the text book) is covered in my layer designs and other crap!

On a side note: does anybody know where one may find an _AFFORDABLE_ laptop that will run linux (GUI mode prefably but not really an issue)?? Thanks!

Cheers, DH.

[Candy]

On a side note: does anybody know where one may find an _AFFORDABLE_ laptop that will run linux (GUI mode prefably but not really an issue)?? Thanks!

Ebay or something similar in your area. I've got both my current and previous laptop at those places. Note, main thing that collapses is the harddisk, be sure to get either warranty or a second one. Oh, and back up your data often, of course

Serious note, expect these to cost about 150-200 euro's for one that can reasonably run graphical mode stuff. Expect more if it is supposed to run quick in GUI mode (esp. with X and stuff like Firefox or OpenOffice). You can try to find one that supports SDRAM SODIMMs and replace them with bigger ones, that should help quite a bit.