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I love it, I played a ton of AoE in HS but we played a lot of StarCraft as well. The matches in SC (for us at least) went a lot faster so we would play that ins
by joshstrange 8y ago
I love it, I played a ton of AoE in HS but we played a lot of StarCraft as well. The matches in SC (for us at least) went a lot faster so we would play that instead. They had some kind of child protection software on all the computers (They used macs) so you could only launch a handful of programs logged in as a student. I managed to find a workaround.
You couldn't open System Preferences but Safari (much like Internet Explorer) was deeply integrated into the OS. You could open the settings in Safari and change the default browser to... say... terminal. Then you could open up Word (or any app as you'll soon see), type "http://google.com" http://google.com", hit the space bar, then click on the link Word automatically created. The system would then launch that URL in the default browser which you had changed to Terminal. This instance of Terminal had elevated privileges. You didn't have root but you could now run "open /Volumes/StarCraft/StarCraft.app" (You could launch Terminal directly as a student but it wouldn't let you open things). We played a ton of SC that year in "study hall".
Our study hall teacher questioned us about it but didn't know much about computers, was a bit of a pushover, and accepted the answer of "Well the computers let us run the game so it's not dangerous/disallowed". Good times.