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		dublinben on Jan 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook - for schools I haven't been in school for a while, but they rather discouraged any tinkering with the computers while I was there. Merely launching the command prompt was enough to be written up by a teacher. Trying to 'experiment' in any way would have gotten your computer privileges revoked.

bcoates on Jan 17, 2013 [–]

It's character building! If tinkering was merely hard instead of forbidden, it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.

meaty on Jan 17, 2013 | [–]

This times a million. Getting dragged up in front of the head master for cracking the econet filestore in my school was the start of my career :)

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