In that class Howard would send us to a classroom where a computer was having problems and we were to fix it if we could, or call him and ask if we couldn't. We also created accounts for students. An account is where the student writes out their name and a password they want, and we 3 would use this program and make an account for each. Mine would be "jreed" for Jason Reed. Everyone's was like that; first initial and last name, up to 8 characters. We had certain things we had to do for each student, like every one we had to check the box next to "student membership" which gave their account access to the "student" network drive which was the H:\ drive. Then a folder was created and when they logged in with their name, they could access their folder. It is quite useful if you have to save something on it and open it up on any computer in the school.

Then I got to thinking...

Howard never watches us when we do it. So I made an account for myself, another one. I already had a "jreed" one since I was a freshman. I decided to make myself one with a better name, so I made "Kakarot". My original thought was to log in with that name in like the media center and have my friends see it and wonder how I got mine to be a cool name. Then one of the kids who was in the class with me brought up what if we added some more access rights to ours. I took the idea further and added the "teacher membership" and "district office membership" to mine, so now I had all 3 of the types. When I would go to the media center and sign in as kakarot, I would see the H:\ drive, but along with the kakarot folder in there, I saw every single student's folder as well. I could view their files, delete, modify, whatever I wished. I didn't do anything to them though. But there was also another drive, which contained every single teacher's folder with their files in it. Grades mostly. And I could also get to the district office's files, including all of Howard's that he kept on the network, but he kept most of his stuff just on his computer so I couldn't get to that. Oh well. Basically I could delete almost everything on the network if I wanted. I admit I did copy some DBZ pictures from some students; folders for my own, hehe.

Grades was a problem. Sure I could see all the grade files, but they couldn't be opened in notepad or anything. I figured that they needed a program called "Grade Machine" to open them, and I found it on the teachers' server. Obviously Howard gave all teachers access to that folder on the network as well as their own. I opened it, but I couldn't get into it. Well, it opened, but it wouldn't show any of the teachers' folders when I did "open". I figured out that Grade Machine has a login of its own. Howard had put all the teachers' login names in Grade Machine so you could only get to the stuff if you were logged in as one of the teachers, because he obviously didn't put "kakarot" in the list, lol. So I have access to all these files and can't do anything because kakarot isn't registered with Grade Machine. Well, that's easy to fix. I knew Mr. Osborne's login name and password, since I was his student aid for the media center, so I logged in as him. I went to Grade Machine and could now access the files...........but wait. I could only access his! What's going on? Oh yeah, I'm logged in as him so I only have access to his folder, so I logged in as kakarot while still in the Grade Machine program, and then I could open any teacher's grades, hehe. Very unlucky for me, it turned out all my teachers used Macintoshes and a different grade program. Grade Machine was only for the teachers who use a PC. Darnit! One of my friends, Tony, was getting a B in his typing class because he didn't do an assignment. If you read my messed up dream entry, he's the one who cut my arms off. I changed it to an A+ for him, but that's the only messing with grades I did. That changed his grade to an A.