Oh yeah, the school admins were always (probably all around the world) a special bunch of people. From complete bureaucratic permission junkies, to those who op

Oh yeah, the school admins were always (probably all around the world) a special bunch of people. From complete bureaucratic permission junkies, to those who opened the doors for curious students to hack around, experiment and in general just talk shop with a grown-up (of sorts). At the time, I felt it was so hard to find people to learn from, everyone was just playing games or hating computers. So those people could (sometimes) be a beacon of light in a not-so-nerdy world. In another school (where IT was much more advanced, likely a lot like you've encountered), I put a file called DukeNukem.exe on the school-wide network share, and it didn't take long for people to discover it. It just showed an error, game needs some extra permission, and asked you to enter the password to try again. Well, people did that of course and the game didn't work. But another file on the network drive collected EVERYONE's password, one after the other, it took a few weeks until they caught me. They were able to use some Novell admin ninja something something to figure out who placed the file there and again, I was kicked out of IT classes, no other harm.