What about paying attention and doing your assignments in school instead of goofing off? I mean, how well you do in school will affect what school you get into and ultimately how much money you make in life. Good students will do well in college and in their careers. I have a very high paying job and can buy any video game crap that I want.
i'm not on about during lessons, but at break/lunchtimes.
And i don't want to play flash games, every other kid thinks they're geniuses (genie?) by using google translate to play some crappy flash game. I want to play Minecraft and possibly even Steam games and such (almost definitely not possible). (But would it be possible to install a game (not steam) onto a usb drive and play from that?)
Anyway, @Originality:
QUOTEYou've said they monitor everything and keep logs. Proxy servers won't work well under such an environment. Setting up your PC as a remote server is almost exactly the same as using a proxy. The only difference is there's a slim chance you can get away with a remote desktop sharing site (I assume apps like LogMeIn would be blocked), in which case you'd be doing nothing more than streaming input and display from the comp. This is also easy to discover/monitor/block, so you won't be able to rely on it.
- You're right, no way can i use a proxy, it's basically out of the question.
A Live Disc is unlikely to work for anything other than local games (you probably won't be able to get internet from it), and you should know the limits of the support for games on Linux. It is easy to stop that being possible in BIOS, but that depends on if BIOS has been set up for that (I don't know enough about ghost image installations to know if it can set up BIOS too). As you said, it'd be obvious if a teacher looked, and there's no real way to hide that.
- Might work, but i don't like the risk of the librarian (she's a ninja i swear ) of walking up from behind
A Live USB environment is another possibility, similar to a Live Disc, but I've never managed to get it working. It's also easy to prevent.
- Same as above
You could try the most common method - hack an Admin, but that's easy to detect and can land you in a lot of trouble (even if you show the Admin in question how you did it).
- Too obvious,plus i'd be dead, not only from teachers but parents too.
My own method when dealing with monitoring programs is to use a specially designed overlay. When an Admin attempts to monitor the computer I worked at, it would either show a frozen desktop image (making it look like it was on but the user was AFK) or just black-screen him (my preferred version, since it would make him think there's something wrong with the system/service and not suspect me straight away). There are also virus-esque programs to freeze logging protocols, but I never used them because I wanted to leave evidence (what's the fun in hacking school computers if you don't leave evidence as a means to getting the Admins to fix up the holes in their security).
- I like this idea, freeze a Wikipedia page or something, but they can tell who's logged on and have live feeds (i'm 99% sure on this) so they would see me opening the program up in the first place
Bottom line, unless you're good, it's easy to find out whenever you try and do something you're not supposed to. And if they're good, they'll catch you anyway. For every trick a schoolkid stumbles across in trying to get around security, a technician should already know about them and find ways to prevent it as part of their job. They work at it all day (in theory), where as kids famously give up if it's too hard.
Better solution: take a laptop or tablet of your own to school to play games on. You'll have to hide it from kids and teachers alike (both like to confiscate your shiny toys), but there'll be nothing to stop you playing games. EDIT: Actually, as FAST suggested, a handheld is a good idea (runs along the same lines anyway), and is easier to hide from teachers.
- Not really an option, I wouldn't be allowed my my parents, the school don't have wireless, well i think they might but i have a desktop not laptop anyway. And i don't want to bring portable in, god the amount of attention i'd get "Caught your lvl. 30 Pikachu yet?" [/bully_voice]
