A few days ago in Spanish the kid that site next to me ("bob") mentioned that he used to go to a school where everyone had a laptop at school.
I said that I wouldn't want to go to those schools that much because many of the kids believe that they know a lot about computers but they really don't
He said that everyone there was good at computers *blah blah*
I asked him a simple question: How do you disable the IP address on a computer
You know what he said?
THAT YOU HAVE TO INSERT A DISK TO DO IT!
I said no and then rephrased my question to set the IP address in Windows XP to 0.0.0.0.0 (I admit I only know how to do it here, not sure about other OS's though)
He than said that the IP address was all hardware and it depended on the type of computer (like on an IBM you had to insert a disk *blah blah*)
He also stated that the IP address was the most unique thing about a computer (no it isn't dimwit...)
I told him that on most it is constantly changing (unless you have a static IP of course) and he still denied it. To prove it to me he went to a nearby computer in the classroom and went to one of the IP sites (myip.com or something like that) then he reloaded the page a FEW SECONDS LATER and said, "See, it didn't change!"
At this point I was pretty POed at his refusal to accept anything I said about it being OS specific (the worst part is he always asks me to do something or program something for his ti 84+ se calculator which he carries around in a 'pretty' black and orange case with his cable at all times - I think that most of us just carry the calculator and a link cable (atleast me))
Later he seemed to support Macs and hate PCs so I told him that Macs are now PC's when they switched over the the intel processor (to make it sound fancier I said switch over to the x86 processor architecture ) He claimed that the only reason they did that was so they could run the "inferior operating system and programs"
And then he started to say Linux was bad to
The best part was when I asked him to tell me about a language he knows and he told me about a language called Batcave (never heard of it, have you?). I said I had never heard of it and he said, "Of course you haven't it's being developed by (insert name here) at (insert college here).
He then led me on a path about how powerful a language "terminal was" That sounds an awful lot like a command-line, doesn't it (I don't really use macs, I only used them 4-6th grade cause my school had them)
I mentioned that it was probably like a .bat file for Windows and that Terminal was Mac specific he claimed that if you had one mac on server you could use Terminal to take over the entire server (I doubt it would be that easy, but probably could happen)
P.S. He may have been right about the Terminal and Batcave stuff, but on the IP stuff and Mac not being a PC he was so off
EDIT: I did find something on batcave, but I doubt he knows how to use it http://www.consiste.dimap.ufrn.br/projetos/batcave/
I said that I wouldn't want to go to those schools that much because many of the kids believe that they know a lot about computers but they really don't
He said that everyone there was good at computers *blah blah*
I asked him a simple question: How do you disable the IP address on a computer
You know what he said?
THAT YOU HAVE TO INSERT A DISK TO DO IT!
I said no and then rephrased my question to set the IP address in Windows XP to 0.0.0.0.0 (I admit I only know how to do it here, not sure about other OS's though)
He than said that the IP address was all hardware and it depended on the type of computer (like on an IBM you had to insert a disk *blah blah*)
He also stated that the IP address was the most unique thing about a computer (no it isn't dimwit...)
I told him that on most it is constantly changing (unless you have a static IP of course) and he still denied it. To prove it to me he went to a nearby computer in the classroom and went to one of the IP sites (myip.com or something like that) then he reloaded the page a FEW SECONDS LATER and said, "See, it didn't change!"
At this point I was pretty POed at his refusal to accept anything I said about it being OS specific (the worst part is he always asks me to do something or program something for his ti 84+ se calculator which he carries around in a 'pretty' black and orange case with his cable at all times - I think that most of us just carry the calculator and a link cable (atleast me))
Later he seemed to support Macs and hate PCs so I told him that Macs are now PC's when they switched over the the intel processor (to make it sound fancier I said switch over to the x86 processor architecture ) He claimed that the only reason they did that was so they could run the "inferior operating system and programs"
And then he started to say Linux was bad to
The best part was when I asked him to tell me about a language he knows and he told me about a language called Batcave (never heard of it, have you?). I said I had never heard of it and he said, "Of course you haven't it's being developed by (insert name here) at (insert college here).
He then led me on a path about how powerful a language "terminal was" That sounds an awful lot like a command-line, doesn't it (I don't really use macs, I only used them 4-6th grade cause my school had them)
I mentioned that it was probably like a .bat file for Windows and that Terminal was Mac specific he claimed that if you had one mac on server you could use Terminal to take over the entire server (I doubt it would be that easy, but probably could happen)
P.S. He may have been right about the Terminal and Batcave stuff, but on the IP stuff and Mac not being a PC he was so off
EDIT: I did find something on batcave, but I doubt he knows how to use it http://www.consiste.dimap.ufrn.br/projetos/batcave/