In the good old days of windows 3.1 for workgroups they (school) provided us with VB, so we just re-wrote the windows manager and set it to run at login in place of the windows program manager,
we were able to run anything we wanted, and the world was good...
mostly they didn't really care if we 'hacked' our way to a few extra privellages so long as we weren't damaging things.
in fact I think that they probably looked at it as a good thing... we weren't causeing trouble or headaches, we were getting ourselves more computer literate than other people and we were using the programming tools when we were 13 that they were having to teach people three years older than us in computing A-Levels
that's not so much the case now...
to be a 'hacker' and proove your worth is now frowned upon...
go to school, do your work and only your work... drink the cool aid.
don't step out of line or proove you know more than the teacher or 'specialists' that came along to implement the computers and networks else you'll get labled as a social miscreant and sent packing...
in the good old days being a hacker in school mostly wasn't about breaking things, and everybody knew that...
now being a hacker in school is generally taken to mean that your going to break stuff...
Damn media and their generalisations...
you can't even make a Game level map of your school anymore without threat of explusion/psyco analysis/rubber walled cell.
rant over...
realise that i was coding my own window manager before some of you here could walk... [before some were even born
]
off to get myself a horlicks...
I'll stop now.