Lenovo awarded NSW DET netbook contract

FINALLY this is needed to happen along time ago

What a complete waste of taxpayers money - most kids already have access to a computer at home. These underpowered Netbooks wont be much use apart from messenger, facebook and porn. They are too slow to have parental controls working affectively.
Watch for them to appear on Ebay soon - sorry it was stolen as the excuse :(
This is a rediculous ongoing cost that the nation cannot afford. Let alone Lenovo being able to provide the huge warranty support required. There is simply no fall back position if this fails and giving it to only one supplier is simply foolish.
Another big plus for China - Rudd will be pleased :(

What a waste, when a small Virtualised desktop environment would have worked from the PC at home. No Notbook to carry, support or maintain- no virus management from out of hours surfing..it could have been a great strategy. If only they (Govt and Public Servants) would do their jobs, and not try to be IT experts as well, we may have had a chance!! Taxpayers money slips away again.

i am really excited

Awesome Computers

this is brilliant im year 6 but i realy feal sorry for 10,11,12.

my big sister is getting one and i want one too :(

questions ??

Can you use your internet at home on these notbooks?

and do they come with photoshop?

Alternative?

I think that instead of issuing students these laptops, they could give us some sort of stimulus package for student laptops, that way we can purcahse our own laptops suitable for us and is better for our economy ;)

This will be HILLARIOUS.
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This will be HILLARIOUS.
I mean seriously. I'm in year 8, and It took me half an hour to hack the school PC, only thing left to combat is the DET filter. They made a petty attempt at disabling CMD, but they didn't disable batch files. and these school laptops, Can't we just ophcrack them from a USB-connected DVD-drive, then use the admin account to system restore the PC and shove windows 7 on them? free laptop :D
I've already seen one, and the desktop layout is horrible and cluttered, and it's quite laggy. My only real concern is that I've heard that even from home internet, it's still DET filtered. Hoping this isn't true.

Internet on this Laptop

This is really awesome, Does those laptops have wireless internet instead of connecting of wires and stuff?

To anonymous(THIS WILL BE HILARIOUS)

You're a fool. First rule of hacking-You can never ever be too paranoid. Don't post how you hacked the netbooks up here..coz then theyll disable it. The people who havent got it yet will get it wit bat files disabled *aka* well be screweed through the roof. And btw, I believe Windows 7's lsass.exe is well equipped to deal with ophcrack and similar programs (FYI-lsass stores your password and thats what ophcrack attacks.;I think cain & abel can get through though...I've hacked my sister a couple of times

i got my lenovo :D it is alright with dream waver and more!!!

Worthless

The netbook they gave the yr 9 are s***tier than my wheezing Portege m100(PenM 1.3 1g ram). Why coldn't the goverment give us a $650(lenovo S10 RPP) gift card to get a good notebook.

i got my laptop =] seems pretty good, its got 2GB RAm and 160GB space. for some reason evn google is blocked at home >.> but anywayz, i have lenovo comps at skewl too and their like crap and shit but da laptops r like 50000000000000000000 faster.

will i get a laptop

iam in year 6 just like you so will get a laptop in year 9??

I find it really quite interesting...

I find it really quite interesting that all of the "younger" posters of previous comments seem to lack any semblance of ability to use the English language!

I think that the funding for these netbooks would be better served by being used to fund teaching of more effective spelling and grammar.

What a joke!

EYES

These kids eyesight are going to die before you know it. Staring at a very small screen for the whole school day wont be nice.

And a big waste of money for the constant replacements as they get stolen/lost/damaged and cost of providing them to new yr9's constantly and also the cost of the electricity going to run them and the cost of the (eye) health effects.

Kevin Rudd and his ill-thought out expensive plans. I doubt school grades will change at all because of the laptops, most students already have access to their own home computer which is probably better then these ones anyway.

Im in year 9 i got my laptop about 3 days ago... .bat files are hopless they are completely blocked, .exe files are almost fully blocked but there is a way around them... so games like UT or CS, counterstrike, open them regular it says this file is unable to be opened, after that you right click and run as admin... :) but now mine wont run as admin :9 and it comes up as blocked... Yes the websites that are blocked at school are still blocked at home and everytime your log on your have to put E.G Harry.Potter1@DETNSW and then your password...

LAPTOPS

im am curently in year 10 ad think it is shit that only yr 9 gets the laptops ad not yeas 10,11,12 but im not worried much cause they are not good any way they are really slow and it has no dvd drive and what is the use of a laptop when all the good parts o the internet is blocked.for $650 they could of spent a little more and got a HP laptop insted but its the goverment they can not do anything right im going to buy my own laptop and nt have to put up with all blocked sitesand the rest of the crap.ps school sucks.

I wonder

Will reinstall the system using a port cd drive alert school?

So true...

I think you've hit the nail on the head with that comment.

I cannot help but think that this taxpayer-funded 'educational spree' could potentially be spent better elsewhere.

Utterly disgusting!

Agree

Yes, I agree, the government should support those students who are studying for & completing their HSC. And, as for the technology, hey, they're Windows-based computers, therefore they already can't run the programs fast enough for proper use, even though they're brand new, no need to wait three years for them to slow down. Honestly, if the government was going to do this properly, they would've forked out the extra for Macs & only supplied years 11 &/or 12 with them. That way they'd only be for the students that are serious about their education. You mentioned that you are doing software design, my mum is currently studying a similar field at Uni & told me that they don't even look side-ways at Windows due to their lack of performance & reliability, & Macs are all they use. What better way of preparing year 11 & 12s for the future then supplying them with Macs, that way, especially within your field of study, the laptops could actually be used for something useful after year 12, instead of instantly becoming more landfill, just as the pathetic Lenovo ones will.
That way, supporting dedicated students, as well as mildly reducing the amount of plastic waste.

I'm in year nine & am receiving one of these laptops next term, & even i think the government's 'Digital Education Revolution' is ridiculous.

oh really?

Oh, you know me do you? Obviously not, because i AM someone who takes care of my belongings, my laptop will NOT be broken. Yes, I do agree with you that they will break regardless of whether the platform is Mac or Windows, but that is just due to the physical manufacturing quality of the machines. Whereas my previous post was ONLY based on the quality of the operating systems. Get my own point of view you say? I have my point of view, I like Macs better, not because 'Mum Said So'. I have one myself, as well as a Windows laptop. It took a week for the Windows laptop to slow down to a pathetic speed, with literally no other programs other than stock-standard. But on the other hand, all three Macs, we've had for years, with plenty of applications & you barely notice any slowing what so ever. The main reason why I had stated that Macs would be a better alternative is that they are a LOT more reliable & WILL stand the test of time. No, they are not perfect, but in MY opinion they are not far off it. If they want students to be able to have these laptops for the rest of their school years without being slower than the government themselves & actually be able to run the programs included with the machine from day one, then.....Mac.

Ok, so you agree that Macs are not a good option, right? Why not? I would love to hear your opinions about this subject.

Iv'e been searching for various hacks and once i booted the laptop in safe mode by holding f8, now it wont let me but so far i have only got flash games working. if you skewls laptops arn't infested with flash game yet they will work on them. gadgets do work aswell though now the site 4 them is blocked but i think you can get them off other pc's.

if any1 has found any usefull info or hacks plz email me or add me on msn.

sick-ass-metal@hotmail.com

On a positive note....

My sister just received one of the DET netbooks, and in my professional opinion (formed after more than a decade of IT experience) I am fairly impressed.

The Lenovo S10 machines have a better build quality compared to most netbooks, and the software build that the DET techo's have shipped the machines with is quite solid. Colour me pleasantly surprised that they shipped the machine with Windows 7 Enterprise!

Now all we need is to get the kids to stop trying to "hack" the bloody things, and get them to concentrate on using them to better their education!

Well, that's my 2 cents worth... flame away! :)

sigh...

Hmm, i agree that these laptops should go to better use, but i want to clear a lot of things up -

If you drop out, you don't keep the laptops. You have to complete year 12 to keep them (while we are in possesion of them, they're not ours yet). Also, someone said "how do I hack exe files?" thats not really hacking, but you can right click the exe then run as administrator - why am i saying this? i don't know. Also, in 2 and a half years time, we'll be doing the HSC. They want us to stay in school, without making it look to obvious. They couldn't give it to those already in yr 11 and 12 because they thought that anyone could just go into a public school just for yr 12 stay for like 3 terms, do the HSC, there you go, you just got a free (albeit -low quality-) laptop.

Also, to that kid in yr 10 that said we don't deserve them; you're right, no point arguing, but DON'T BLAME US YOU IDIOT! It's not like we get everything we ask for, ok, they gave it too us, we didn't specifically ask for it, its not our fault you guys missed out, i'm very sorry.

P.S. Don't call us stupid, based on the fact that we got a laptop, and you didn't, thats very very immature of you.

And lastly, before you even think about wasting your most important years of education trying to hack and play games, have you considered just waiting 3 years, until they take the locks off the laptops? Hacking is hard, and takes a lot of knowledge. You're going to fail miserably, and when i comes to the HSC, your going to make us look really bad. So just wait, because either way, you're only going to get an unblocked laptop in thress years time, but if you avoid the temptation, you'll still find your education was worthwile. Wow, cmd is not blocked? yea, good luck, you'll need it.

Also, in relation to programs, it comes with almost every educational related program (Adobe, office '07 + more) so that if you ever do like multimedia, or digital imaging, you'll have the required programs (it was otherwise hard to do homework, if any at home). I just don't understand the fact that these so called custom made laptops still have MSN (blocked) and iTunes (if you have any movies you get like a 1-2 hr detention after school, as for music, they don't seem to care at all; why?)

sigh... (Part 2)

I'm back again, just to clear some more things up -

If you're in year 6 right now, you will be recieving a laptop, althogh if you get the same one as us (lenovo s10) i really do feel sorry for you, because it is really slow. Sell it on eBay after year 12, for hypothetically speaking, $250 (if you're lucky), save up $750 of your own money, and buy a laptop that can play actually use microsoft word without lagging for 5 minutes every time you try to paste a small picture in, or type at a slightly faster than normal speed.

If u think we cant spell cos we type like this, well then ur just misunderstanding us. Of course we can spell properly, it's just we have the brain power to switch between social text, and normal text. Don't think that just cuz some (most nowadays) of us think its sooo cool to type like this, doesn't mean that the youth of today has completely lost the english language.

Also, i've noticed some people talking about taxes. On a completely unrelated topic, isn't it kind of unfair to just keep spending (e.g. I don't understand pensioners, whats superannuation for if you get pension, please explain to me, no one teaches you this stuff in school, please excuse my harshness) then expect the later generations to pay off the debt? In another decades time, i heard we will be paying the highest tax ever seen, yet when we're older, we get no pension (even though it is a pretty small amount to live on, but better than nothing)? We do get a laptop however...so uh, that evens thing out right rudd?

Hacking

go to your command prompt

type: ipconfig /flushdns [enter]
ipconfig /release [enter]
ipconfig /renew [enter]
gpupdate /force [enter]

it might ask you to restart so just press 'Y' then 'enter.' Only works in schools wi-fi and will stop working once you shutdown so keep it on hibernate.

Enjoy :P

cmd

you can only use this hack when you are connected to nswdet so i guess you cant do it in the holidays..
press start
search cmd and open it( a black screen will come up)
type
gpupdate/force
something kool will happen and then when it says restart y/n or log off y/n just type n. you can acess all your .exe files if you just right click and run as admin now. you owe me millions of dollars now

ya mum

i agree school sucs but the laptops r awesokme so neerrr.... n ha ha u didnt get 1

oy wong topic

IT admins did not come down in the last shower...

It's absolutely hilarious that these school kids think that they know better than the IT admins.... Of course they're going to know if you're using the machine fo purposes other than what you're supposed to - the machines are loaded with enterprise-grade security software!

Not to mention the fact that the network administrators have been working in IT for more than a few minutes!

hacking is ssooooo easy

i hacked my year nine laptop in like 10 mins. it soo easy and now msn works and the intrnet isnt blockd at home. apparently the government doesnt know how smart we year nines are.

A Reminder

Just Remember that After you finish Year 12 the Image of Windows 7 or Whatever is on them at the time gets wiped. You end up with a blank HDD. There is no removing of locks or anything. Just a clean and easy format. Also remember that the school you go to has it's own proxy, so it is practically impossible to get to blocked websites. Believe me I hate this as much as anyone else, I just thought i would remind everyone.

Laptops are stupid

i agreee with youuu
Im on it now
And u cant go on any games
What if the teachers say free time.
What are we going to play dumbarses?

.EXE

To run any exe, simply run it as administrator.

You dont need a password or anything

I dont think you can install games though, just copy the entire installed game across to your laptop and run the .exe

ive got WC3, doom 2 and quake working, as well as firefox

Laptops

Guys, you are all guinea pigs. We are all watching what you do so when they roll out to other years we can block even more stuff.

One teacher [in pilot] program took his to New Zealand via air and the DET contacted the principal asking if they knew where it was. Yes it has a GPS.

It is also a Blue steel machine which means they can bring up your desktop at any time and look at your HD and desktop wallpapers etc.

At our school we have smart board software that shows all computers connected on a main computer so we can see what you are doing..

Big Brother will just keep watchi and controlling. Be thankful you have a really big word processor and MP3 Player

they were supposed to be imposible

as you have obviously heard these computers are supposed to be immposible to hack, but my dad whom is in the IT industry unblocked it a matter of minutes.

Please help

I just got my laptop a couple of days ago and i cant access msn on my laptop. can someone please help me how to access msn?

please send me an email dr34m_repz_n95@hotmail.com

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!! =]

Try PHproxy jp on google den u click the frist thing on the page tht says PHproxy den yu go on the top right hand coner and click on the URL den yu type the whole address for the website

Useless

I got one of these DET Netbooks somewhat last term. Seriously, these things haven't enhanced our education, they've merely corrupted it. As I speak, I see about 3 people in front playing games, 2 watching movies and another trying to hack it (failing though).

All the computer did is was made the periods bludge lessons. Also, weren't we fine without these laptops before? Woulda saved a lot of money, which we could have used for better reason.

If you REALLY want to make use of these netbooks, stop trying to hack it and use it for educational use. These netbooks were given to you as a gift.

Well that's my rage moment.

Games

does any1 no how to play counter strike on these laptopsmor how to hack them

laptops

i can go on all the websites and play all the games but i can't access msn messenger. so, please help me.

the answer

you dont have to be a genious to unblock any site you want and to use msn messenger...
i was stuffing around with my new laptop after i got it because all the blocked sites were annoying me,sites for school work were even blocked.
so i went into control pannel, opened system and security, clicked network and internet then internet browsing, then advanced up the top, then ticked all those boxes thats were unmarked and pressed ok.
worked for me and my mates.
:)

LAPTOPS

GO AND STUDY AND DO WHAT YOUR SUPPOSED TO DO ON THESE LAPTOPS. I THINKS IT'S STUPID. THEY MONEY SPENT COULD BE GOING TO SOMETHING SO MUCH BETTER LIKE A HIGHER WAGE FOR NURSES, TEACHERS AND POLICE OFFICERS. NOT FOR A KID TO LAZE AROUND IN THE MDDLE OF CLASS WHILE THE TEACHER IS TEACHING, PLAYING GAMES AND MUCKING AROUND. SHAME ON YOU.

How did you do it?

I'm in year 9 as well and I've been trying to figure out ways to hack in to my laptop. To run .exe's and unblock websites.
Can you help me and tell me how you did it.

Thanks.

your either a teacher or a complete nerd ROFL

Okay seriously. I've had a laptop for ALL my years of high school so far, and the first we had (since year 7) was going to finish in year 9 so we can breathe the fresh air of paper and pen again.

But no, we get these government laptops right in the middle of year 9.

I honestly don't care about laptops anymore at school; we're the technology generation and this is what the government feeds us. Just suck it up and USE THEM. I don't care if you hack, study, play games or watch vids. If you had paper, you'd still be doing that amount of school work. It's not like we have a choice anymore.

If you guys want to use your breath on something, rally against the idea that of doing our HSC on laptops. HSC ON LAPTOPS. Are you kidding me?

Stop '09 Year 9s being the guinea pigs, tell them to do it to the Year 7s or something but NOT US.

Year 10 Dropouts

Just letting you know that if a student recieves their laptop in year 9 and chooses to drop out at year 10 then they DO NOT get to keep the laptop, it gets handed back to the school.

bored in class....!!

wow...people are actually fighting for the laptops? it's fun reading it...lol

Do they really need them?

Are these laptops really needed? Or could the money be put to better use? Like helping with funds to rural schools.. Or lowering the price of university and tafe etc. I understand that times are changing and computers are a big part of our society now, but what happened to the good old fashioned text book, pen and paper?

Most households these days have atleast one decent computer, so is it really needed for the students at school?

msnnn

someone tell me how to get msn to work, our skool got it today, thankkk youuus so much !! ^^

Hacked!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah sup, i hacked my PC in about 2 days.
believe it or not, i also managed to overclock it to 2.43Ghz and also the video card i managed to overclock.
and now because of the enhanced performance i can run Fifa 08 on it. its really good.!!!!!!!!!!!

guys jeezs u carnt ublock them using programs on the computer the only way to unblock it is to open up the laptop and take out the hard disk drive and replace it with a new one then off a home computer download windows xp pirated editon and install it on ur laptop but dont worry if u want the original setings just pop the origanal hdd back in

Easy Instructions

Heyo,
Could some please tell me in simple words how to unblock facebook/you tube/msn at home or at school? Thanks plus how do you get msn working on these stupid mini latops.
Thanks
:)

You're not wrong about spelling!!

It's

THEIR laptops

not

THERE laptops.

does anyone know if the det portal emails work with windows live mail on the new laptops?

All you can do is see your school's TSO, because, he's the only one who can "fix" it.

and when I say fix it.
I mean, diagnose a problem, then send it away for repair.

Re: Office 2007 - word operation not allowed

Hi,
Got a free trial of office, and word is not working
it says "word operation not allowed because selection is blocked"
it has been working for the last 8 months but just stopped now????
Can anyone shed some light?
Please help

Running exe programmes

To run exe programmes simply right click on the programmes shortcut and select run as administrator

as to blocked sites, there will all ways be proxys you just have to find them.

try in command prompt. type in gpupdate/force and that should unblock some computer softwear

Oh dear...
Many of the

Oh dear...

Many of the comments could really use a spell checker.
People might take you seriously if you actually learn how to spell and stop using 'leet speek'.

this laptop isnt all that great.. they also put windows live messenger on it and that too is BLOCKED!!

most people are more concerned of what they have on their screen savers than the education lol

Uh, how're you supposed to boot off a disk without a disk drive, genius? you could do it off USB, but you can't access the BIOS.

I can't belive they tried to call these laptops "unhackable". Hah, that just means a challenge to people our age! It is really annoying that they've blocked as many sites as they have, but thats easy enought to get past. What I think is sad is that people are trying to unblock facebook and msn. Is it really so terrible that you can't talk to your friends in another class? You wouldn't have been able to anyway if you'd never been given the laptops.

Also, using the fact that you get to keep it after year 12 s an incentive to finish school is stupid, too. They're powerrful for netbooks, but netbooks aren't very powereful, and at the rate technology is advancing, they're going to be waaayyyyy out of date by the time we finih high school in 3 years.

LOL

Note:
In this chat, whoever is against hacking and crap, is indeed a teacher, ISO, DET member or a Downie who is trying to be a nerd who is trying to be a smart ass

These laptops are so slow.
everything is blocked
and they keep breaking

also a guy in my class did work out how to overide the operating system, working fine for a day untill he go suspended.

Work out?
Lol I bet he

Work out?

Lol I bet he leeched of a tut which was exposed by Wizkidd, and then later removed.

Hacking Is Impossible

So Tried every thing, well give up or you'll get busted mate I've got one of these year 9 student laptops, and my mate at school got busted for hacking into DET with it it.

So we have to go to year 12 to keep them

internet

The internet works ok at home but doesn't work at school
what going on with these foolish people.

Help

I don't want to bacome a hacker. I only want to access the messenger site so I can get it working. This looks promising, but I don't want to try it without knowing how to delete history.

If anyone has a quick and easy way to do this, and can explain in easy english (I don't understand techniqual terms), please tell me.

To an DET people reading this, I'm not a hacker, but it's your fault that I have to resort to these measures. Sorry.

Personall, I think the DET should just open that one site so we can get it working.

Otherwise, it's just some sick, cruel joke put in by the DET.

No one's that mean, are they?

no way

no, for one taking a pic of you when u open it is illegal and also would take up alot of memory for the det. thats lyk over 500,000 pictures every day. to look at one by one. lol, and also thay can not see all of your files and watch any of your videos, but they can see logs of your files, (in other words they can see the names of all the files and their extentions e.g. .exe .mp3 .mov, so on) so things that you dont want them to see, just name it something completley random.

What's the point of distrubuting laptops to every 9-12 grader in Australia? What ever happened to those government ad's trying to encourage people to get out and be active? Although the laptops do a great job of shutting everybody up in class, I've noticed. All the kids seem to be so absorbed in the game they're playing or the movie they're watching. The teacher's assume we're all doing our work. I'm sure DET will discontinue this method of learning as soon as every 9th grader has done their HSC and the results come out a lot lower than now days.
If they haven't noticed already, technology is already taking over and ruining our lives. Soon every person in the universe will be able to hack everything and anything, it's all just a matter of time. Before you know it, we'll be starting to raise kids who each own a phone, computer, laptop and ipod at the early ages of maybe 7 or 8.
I guess it wasn't a very smart choice of theirs.
I'm a 9th grader by the way.

Reply to "do we really need them?"

They come with a lot of programs that are quite helpful. You are obviously in need of some proper grammar yourself.

I don't see what the problem is with spell-check.. It tells you when you have spelled something incorrectly, does it not? Would you rather just make the mistake, or make the mistake and be notified ASAP about it?

If the teachers were actually doing their job and watching over the class and teaching then there would be no problem with people only playing games and doing no work. If a student is caught playing games, the teacher's can confiscate the laptops. Teacher's can also compromise - Work first, games if you have finished and your work is completed to a satisfactory/decent level.

I have not seen any huge issues with the laptops regarding internet at my school. We can even access the WiFi in the playground.

If you think that we do not need them, then that is your opinion. IMO, I think they are great. Despite the websites being blocked, they can be quite handy. I prefer typing to writing, I feel as though I can communicate better, and everything gets done quicker.

As for everything being blocked.. The government and NSW DET is just under-estimating and doubting us. They are also making the assumption that we would just go on sites that are inappropriate. Fair enough though, there are always some douches that would do that.

If you have a computer at home, with MSN, Facebook etc - Then why are you complaining about not having them on our laptops? They are, after all, for school work.

Lier

Look.
Everyone in my class has been working much faster and has been learning more in class now and play games in the last 5minutes of the period. The laptops have actualy helped a lot more than you think but you just have to learn how to use them. OK

Kevin Rudd Needs a Financial Manager!

Honestly, spends a billion here, a billion there...and what have we to show? 15 yr olds with tiny crappy laptops. Kevin Rudd has put Australia right back into a financial crisis and everybody thinks "isn't this new Prime Minister great? He has given all these kids laptops, all these people stimulus packages and sent politicians on a well deserved break." Yeah well, sorry to break it to you people, your taxes will rise and you will be thinking "oh, I wonder why".

John Howard put Australia in a great financial position and then Labor gets power and bam! We're all in debt once again. Do you see any other countries spending a pointless $5000 on a laptop for tens of thousands of students? No, I don't think so. Money could be so much better spent on infrastructure and making Australia's recreational and physical life so much better. Schools already have computers so why give each student an individual one when they also have their own at home? dumb dumb dumb. The Education Department need a good kick up the bum. Australia's education is terrible and they think giving students a cheap slow ass laptop will raise grades? LOL.

Australia needs to compare themselves to a lot of other countries and stop thinking we are top of the food chain. We are not expanding or progressing at all. Everytime and new shopping center is building or renovations are occurring to a local shopping center, everybody wines and complains saying they don't like change and all this crap. Take a trip to Singapore and you will find out that we are living in third world. The amount of construction and work happening is unbelievable and the pace. Yes, they import workers but whats wrong with that? Why can't Australia? I watched a Mc'Donalds built and open in 3 days. It takes a week here to just put up bloody scaffolds.

I can go on forever. Please get Liberal back into power and change the Education system! Maybe take a tip from the genius Chinese who now are home to the country with the most billionares produced (I am not Asian). Funny we make fun of them and say they live third world.

Hope Rudd reads this sometime and good ridents.

O_o

I am on my laptop now. I am scared because there is big det people in the offices watching what i am typing at this very moment... watching, waiting, just for that little slip of the keyboard...

btw, one of the reason that lenovo gave them to year 9 students is the warranty only last 3 years.

Right now i feel like throwing it at the wall and getting on my ipod or a proper laptop because the keyboard is crap and the little mouse pad thingy cant be turned off when you type so every now and then you tap it! and cause an error.... and then when you try and backspace the error you press the '=' sign!!

i better not say any more or the little det people might get upset....

dogfight_f15@hotmail.com

Im so scared

The NSW department of education sucks balls.

EXE files

Uh dude, you can just right click on it and run as admin without all that BS.

lap-tops

Soon As I Escape:

Mate you can't open the lap-top the screws are different way hard unless you use your strength with a screw driver...

It worked but now I have a new problem...

Thanks. It appeared to work but now I have anew problem. Whenever I try to dign in it comes up saying "Your contact list sin't available at the moment". I did what it told me to do but it still won't let me on. I'm so close though so I'm not giving up yet.

Thanks whoever you are. It seems much more promising then it once was. I owe you one! =D

det filter

yes the filter is at home as well i think its somthing in the laptop thats filtering it

Fail

Congratulations, you just lost the game.

It doesnt work

ok is there anyone that really knows how to access msn??

Yeah the "thing" that filters the net is called Bluecoat.

Now they blocked games on our laptops i try to run as administrator but it still says blocked by group policy. Is there any other way of running games

Also "Run as Administrator" doesnt work anymore it still says blocked. Can anyone fix this thanks.

make urself an administrator account 4 full privliges

I think these laptops would be so much better if they were unblocked at home, and blocked at school. Hotmail is blocked, and i think its stupid. Hotmail would be a great way to send assignments to teachers instead of the portal.det, as nobody even uses them. It seems that they trust Google more then Microsoft. Lol.

the education matters not what china earns who cares the students need education and theres more learning with laptops than papers if kevin rudd stops the laptops than that would be one of his biggest mistakes ever made

i agree with her she has a point with the spelling, the auto spell thing is used heaps with school students and they will probs grow up thinking thats how yooh spell a word and get it wrong on a report or something

The only bad thing about these things is that nearly every site is blocked at home using your own net. fair enough if porn and that stuff is blocked but why did they block online games and other websites that aren't innapropiate?

Many of the commenters here seem to be focused on what they personally want from these netbooks, and not on what they were intended for, and who actually paid for them.

There is no question that the DET policies are not perfect and that they need some refining and tweaking, but foucus on the productivity aspects in getting changes done, not on which chat programs, games and whatever many students *want*...

THANKS FOR THE LAPTOPS HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

yer i reckon plus the private schools can run exe files and go on any sites they want to, why aren't we allowed?

I'm a comp eng student and my brother recently got one of these laptops. They are pretty good actually, however the various scare tactics they have put in place with the information nights and letters home etc. are hilarious.
I also find it funny that they have hidden C: when you can just access it from IE. Why bother hiding it in My Computer? >.<

Also, they rant on about how you're not allowed music, video, etc ... you can't install stuff on them, my brother has iTunes on his somehow (not sure if they come with them but if they aren't allowed music then wouldn't it make sense not to include iTunes?).

Anywho, wouldn't an easy way to bypass it to run a version of Linux that can be run from a flash drive/external HDD and then run games from that OS or would that not work?

I'm interested in getting these to do something they aren't allowed to; I don't believe this information should be restricted and personally, I think year 9's hacking it and finding out more about how the systems work should be encouraged. That's educational and it might motivate dero kids to actually learn something that will help them in life. :)

Of course, playing games in the middle of class is downright stupid - teachers will catch you, etc. However, if a teacher is to catch a student playing games, instead of punishing them they should be encouraged to develop their IT and software knowledge. Ever heard of trying to develop gifted and interested children/people rather than suppressing them and restricting information? That is what teachers are supposed to do! Encourage students to learn!

I think the interest a lot of kids have in hacking these laptops should be encouraged and taught. Knowledge in software systems and how computers work is extremely interesting and motivation to get into these industries and acquire this knowledge definitely SHOULD NOT be discouraged.
The whole ideal that 'hackers are bad' and people are bad for bypassing software systems is just implemented by computer illiterate fools and/or people who don't want society to develop.

agree with zoe ^ -.- ^

STOP asking about how to play games and use MSN you BLOODY JUNKIES. THESE LAPTOPS ARE FOR LEARNING, NOT FOR BLuDHGING! THATS WHY THEY CALLED IT A EDUcATION REVOLUTION!

comment 193 Just make me want to shoot someone that just needs to be shot so does comment 192 even though that is completely off my topic so i say screw private schools

also the site has my e-mail adress which puts me at risk of my laptop being taken off me but who cares they have so many problems comment 195, 196 or 197 (not sure mabye another one) says how to access C:\ and install games which ive already done i mean honestly these
"scare tactics" they use on us SUCK
the fact the private schools get better makes my blood boil just because they have more money gives them more internet access?? WHAT THE HELL my brother has a laptop i can use at home so even if they did take away my laptop i can still keep making complaints but seriously i think that the fact that rich panzys get better just sucks.

Follow my instructions on comment 198, HURRRPP DURRRP. Little kiddies need to understand that you DON'T need facebook and crap. If this is the next generation, Australia is screwed. Patience is a virtue, learn it idiots, the laptops were introduced as an aid to do your assignments and notes in class on. Not to stuff around at home talking to all your little internet friends. Don't like it? Don't bloody use it! As simple as that, but when you grow up, you'll look back and think "F*uck, I was a dumbarse"

Have fun, and follow my instructions on comment 198 if you want unrestricted acess. That's if, you can even find the jumper lawl. Dumarses :]

okay so i got my laptop last year, everyone was having a rave about how excited they were to get them. You cant log in to for eg, myspace,facebook or msn, yet they installed msn on the computer, such a waste of my 2g space. I find my laptop to be hopeless and find myself writing out most work by choice. The only good thing about these computers is the fact theres a camera in them. Macs wouldve been a better alternative, speaking from experience with using both computers. I wouldnt of chosen this laptop in the shop and wouldnt give two cents if i lost it in one. Take the laptops back and give us cash so we can buy our own. Theres no way of having gratitude towards the government for this, and now that we are being run by julia, its a joke even more.

haaaa im on the laptop now and i think its preetty cool (: just wndering how to haaack the thingg? DOES ANYONE KNOWWW !

Okay so I'm in year 9 and I got my DER laptop a few weeks ago. As has been said above, you only get to keep the laptop if you finish year 12.
I don't know about other schools, but at my school all of the years above and including year nine [9, 10, 11, 12] have received a laptop. As well as most of the teachers.
I know that many people don't like the laptops, mainly for the reasons which have already been outlined; they're slow/laggy, a lot of websites are blocked on them, and they can simply be a pain in the butt- all of their updates etc.
I have to admit that I did come on here to try to find a way to get past the blocks on my very laptop, not out of "disrespect" or "ungratefulness", but because I do not have my own computer at home. I know I wouldn't access any sites I shouldn't be at school, but I can't vouch for other fellow year nines. I mean for god's sake, primary games is blocked on mine! Do they think I'm going to sit in history and play crazy taxi? But what annoys me more is it isn't blocked on other student's computers.
So I found how to get around filters with a proxy, the only problem is, all of the proxy sites are blocked as well. But, a part of me is glad they are because I would more than likely be tempted to access Facebook at school.
So pretty much, I'm 50:50 about the laptops. But I'm sure that we would all be complaining about not having them if the government didn't start the DER.

Anyways, time for me to shut up ;D

This is a message for the people who gave us these laptops.

I'm currently in Year 10 and I have a complaint! A few months ago, the government (I think), the Board of Studies, and/or you guys, or whatever, decided to block my school's (Morisset High) ability to run our games as adminestrator when right-clicking them. THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS!!!!! IT IS AGGRAVATING!!!!! TREMENDOUSLY HORRIBLE!!!! I doubt that ANYONE in my year OR in year 9 would find this technologically murdurous indecency riquisit by a long shot! I am far beyond ASTONISHED that you would even DARE do such an aggravating monstrosity to our laptops!!!! And also, HOW DARE YOU BLOCK SO MANY WEBSITES!?!?!?!?!?!? I was going to look up some cheats for my video games and then the site was BLOCKED!!!!!!! And so was U-tube, MSN, E-Bay AND the places where you can download the really cool games! I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!!!!!

how did you get exe's working?

Someone needs to stop lying about this. The thing is crippled down to half its use. What they're giving us is a virtual typewriter with limited tools NOT a computer.

We're going backward...not forward.

No way would a parent, kid or teacher buy this netbook as is if they had to pay around $500 for it. Doesn't that tell you anything?

Pretend-computer=pretend technology=pretend learning.

how do i get into the photoshop elements folder; i want to install fences.

The only way you can really get around everything is by swapping out the current hard drives, and replacing them. this can be done with a 160GB portable HDD. There is a program that gets around BlueCoat. it called puTTY. complicated to get started, makes your internet slow, but there are no blocked sites whatsoever. The only thing I can't do is overclock, if someone knows how to, or knows a website, please share it.

P.S. Don't bother trying to lay games unless they are really old (your quake 1 & 2, UT 1 etc.) They lag to crap because DirectX 3D/OpenGL have been disabled. Only things that run smooth are videos and the previously mentioned games.

P.S.S. DET,

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

end

there is a game that runs smooth. Ultimate Vice City 2.1
i can work it on my laptop. i sell the game for $5 each. made already $15 in one day! and tell me more about this puTTY program. and where to download and how to use it.
thanks in advance :D

can you send the link of the download?

wow

Does any 1 noe how to unblock dese school laptops

is this a good idea? If i get a portable hard drive, and I installed windows 7 Ultimate onto the hard drive. and run the computer using that hard drive, would i be able to do anything i want? go on any site? play any game? and if it would work, would i get in trouble?

To every moron who can't think for themselves:

Are you guys retarded or something?!?! Don't you realise that everytime one of you post a new comment that tells others how to bypass some blocks or something that usually needs 100% admin rights, you give that information to the government??? If the government knows how we all bypass certain blocks, they will just put up some more blocks that take even MORE effort to bypass. And if we bypass those blocks, the government will just put up more ADVANCED blocks and so on, and so forth. And eventually, if the government has no choice, they might just take the laptops back and use tax payers' money on something less high-tech. So THINK about what you post on this website. And stop asking for tips on how to bypass blocks. They made this comment-posting part of the website for a reason.

oh yea one more thing this is a pretty funny forum i quite enjoy reading you guys comments lol

I can run any .exe files on my laptop. please tell me the proxy. i tried to make my own but they blocked it straight away.
PM me if you kind enough
pm me at: karlos1223@gmail.com

PS: I will not tell anyone at all if you do tell me
kkthnxbye

srsly, what's not blocked by the det????

and the det email is down so often, but can't get into any other email,what in the hell are they thinking?????
why are those email blocked anyway????

run a program called freegate, unblock anything

Go to http://us.dongtaiwang.com/loc/download_en.php and download the pro edition. Remember it only works at home

ME: they have logs what sites you have been on.
want to know how to delete these logs?

YOU: yes please

ME: ok, in internet explorer, write this in the url bar:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/#Status
then press reset status. and magic. deleted the log on the sites what you have been on.
NOTE: Delete regularly because theyupload the logs to the server every now and then, so remember to delete the logs regularly.

YOU: ok thanks man.

ME: welcome mate

I'm suprised it the large dislike towards the laptops. I'm on one now and find it extremely beneficial towards my school work. The people claiming they are underpowered and are easy to hack, have you actually used one? They are well worth the money.

I am in Y9 and I believe that these laptops can be partly benificial towards schoolwork, but, the amount of secrurity they put on them is ridiculous. Seriously, its a joke

There is this AWESOME rap song on comment 225! Read it and tell Morpheu$ J what you think of it.

P.S. Morpheu$ J, you are an awesome rapper. Ever thought of going in competitions? Or maybe Australian Idol?

Can someone post a guide on how to run .exe files please? :/

252 it doesnt work

You can also run exe files by going into the c drive by:

1. Right click the desktop
2. click new
3. click shortcut
4. then in the box that pops up type "c:" without the quotes.
5. Then once its made it will be somewhere on the desktop
6.then open c drive and click windows
7. once in windows find the folder called system32
8. once you have clicked on system 32 find a folder called catroot2
9. then right click on the second folder something like {f750e6c3- ECT
10.click on create shortcut
11. it will say cannot create shortcut here place on desktop just click yes.
12.put all ur .exe files in here and they will work

Can someone tell me how to program a virus that will disable DET and the government?
It some info.
BTW, these mo-fo government people are ruining our youth. As is the Board of Studies people. Stop doing what your teachers say. Take a stand and show that us teenagers have a right to choose for ourselves. Take a stand and start thinking for yourselves. And take a stand for THE FUTURE... OF TEEN RIGHTS!!!
Stop listening to adults who think they can boss you around just because they're older than you. Disobey every mo-fo who thinks he/she can order you around.
Beat up midgets and take their lunch and money.
Abuse teachers and civilians who think they can just tell you what to do. Graffiti on school grounds. Put porn on your laptops. Rip up your textbooks and smash the school windows. I'm not kidding here, I am being serious. So tak a stand and prove that you have a right to choose.

Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know a latest proxy that actually works on these laptops? & is there a way to run msn without getting the usual error?

`i THINK THIS IS A FREEMASON WAY OF SPYING ON THE KIDS.
THE KIDS HAVE A BUILT IN WEBCAM? WHY?...
WHY SHOULD WE HAVE WEBCAMS ON OUR LAPTOPS THAT WER JUST GONNA BE USING FOR WORK & THATS IT?
&& WE HAVE OUR OWN SOURCE OF WEBCAM AT HOME?
YOU WANNA KNOW WHY?.. BECAUSE THEY WANNA SPY ON US KIDS. AND WHY SHOULD OUR PARENTS AND FAMILY PAY FOR MOR TAX FOR A USELESS SOURCE OF SHYT?

SRSLY, I HAVE A LAPTOP & ITS THE SHYTTEST FUDGING SOURCE OF MY LIFE, ITS SHYT AND USELESS & IVE HEARD THAT MY PEDO IT TEACHER WHO CONTROLS THESE LAPTOPS CAN HACK THROUGH OUR WEBCAMS ANYTIME THEY WANT.... WHAT THEY ARE INVADING OUR PERSONAL PRIVICY ..... THEY ARE JUST PEDOPHILES... & ON TOP OF IT WHY THE FCUK SHLD WE SUFFER WITH BLOCKED INTERNETT AT HOME FOR? ITS NOT LIKE WE DONT HAVE OTHER COMPUTERS FOR EFFIN SAKES THIS IS JUST A WAY TO SPY ON LIL CHILDREN TO SEE THEIR EVERYMOVE FAR I HOPE JULIA THE RANGA TAKES ALL THESE LAPTOPS FROM EVERY SINGLE CHILD COZ I KNOW WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS LIKE,I KNOW HOW THEY ACT I KNOW EVERYTHING, IVE DID MY RESHEARCH!!!! THE GOVERNMENT IS ONE F'D ORGANISATION I TELL YOU??
WHAT HAPPENED TO BOOKS & ETC?
PENCILS THE OLD FASHION WAY?
I THINK I PERSONALLY THINK THIS IS A OPEN WAY TO HACK THROUGH THE WEBCAM AND WATCH THEIR EVERYMOVEEE!

I find all this funny how everyone whants to hack their laptop in fact i am typing this on my school comp. there is no need to unblock chatroom cause your usualy next to the person you want to talk to and there is no point in unblocking porn cause they can see what you have looked up through the blocking program bluecoat and you sickoes who whant to wackoff in class you could just import porn but you will get caught some guy at my school was found with 8Gigs of porn!!!!!!! Lastly if you ever want to run an executable file (.exe,usualy for games and such) you can put it all in a special Adobie file wich i will not disclose.P.S you cant install things that require acssess to a site that is blocked just bring all the folders (doesen't quite work for steam) also add me on steam GIANTgonads

I think the idea that the government would actually give out free laptops is ridiculous. There has got to be some sort of f**ked up catch to all of this.

I know right. And don't rip Big Black Bill. I think that money could have been spent better. Spend it on hospitals or other areas which are actually lacking in financial support. Laptops are not needed, and do not give as much as an educational bonus as some people might think... personally i still like the textbook.

i find the blocks the det has set in place is just rediculous everything exept for gov sites are blocked and the ones that arnt are verry new websites which havnt been discovered!
these are meant for school work... how are we meant to research when every-single-site you attempt to access is blocked!!
even the most innocent sites are blocked! some parts of wikkipedia are blocked!!!!! whats innapropriate about wikkipedia!! its a factual forum!! referenced for finding out what something is/how it works ect whats innapropriate about that!!

7/11 proxy wont work. been there. used that. got it blocked.
it sucked anyways. it was azn based so whenever u used a link it came up in azn language. so try to find a eng based server coming from a english speaking contry like our home aus!
keep trying!

to those of you who ranted on about the run as admin opt on your laptops, thanks!!!! it was known to everyone who needed to know before u ranted. now this years lattops have lost that hack function!!! if you find a cool tip, tell your mates in rl talk on msn bout it if u need to but dont go on gov forums to rant about it if you DONT want it blocked. to those of you who did, i give u a cyber slap!

I have mine (using it to post this comment) and its actually quite good, the only issue I have with it is the lockdown the DET put on it. Other than that its great, although as soon as it's mine to keep i'm gonna pull it apart and put a new processor in if I can

umm for one stop complaining..these computers int all that great.. i have only had mine for a year and they are all breaking already..p.s u cant get on facebook or msn or anything so stop complaining..they ar not that great.. get over yourselfs

i just really want to know how i can get msn on my school laptop,i have proxied it onc and it worked for a while and now it doesnt can anyone give me a proxy that works?

i know this guy and he has a site on facebook on how to hack the DET laptops. just search it and go to his link it shud work he also has the site for:
msn
games
facebook
and youtube
its great and im hooked i just put down the window when the teacher comes lol :)

The government can put these laptops where the sun don't shine. Btw anyone whos laptop needs to run updates, don't do it because it stops all exe files from running.

Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, of course.

Last year's laptops are crap, but I have to admit that they're still better than this year's laptops.
BTW, I am so jealous that you get a green laptop. Lol! I only have last year's one. It's red. :'(

This should help us find the opportunities we need!

yea, i want it, could u give to me?

Seriously, do you guys think that the Department of Education and Training will not read the posts on this website?

Ever wondered why most of these methods don't work? It's because you guys are giving them ideas, that is, ways to block even more content on these laptops, because you have just exploited a hack.

geez .

hahaha to the first comment. trust me these laptops cant be used for facebook, msn or porn everything fun is blocked. and yes we do have access to computers at home but to be honest having them in class is rather helpful

Everyone, exe folders have been patched. So any1 who hasnt switched on their internet at skool. DO NOT DO SO! Or else it will be blocked

the laptops are laptops

UMMM I THINK THE YEAR 8's are definetely geting their laptops but the year 7's might.. heheh u wanna know why they MIGHT get their laptops? It's a big maybe cos THE WORLD MIGHT END IN 2012 ... heheheheheh lol jokes that stuff is kinda BULLCRAP!!! Ayways G.L ^^
oh yeah one more thing, If you want to go on any site at home or school well your questions have been answered.
STEP 1: download TOR BROWSER at your home computer.
STEP 2: Download flash player aswell
STEP 3: Extract them and then put it inside the pluggins folders in the protable firefox which is in the TOR BROWSER. (check every single folder in firefox protable.)
STEP 4: Press and hold the shutdown button then turn it on again.
STEP 5: There should be Options on the startup that says "start windows normally, safe mode, safe mode with networking, command prompt."
STEP 6: Pick Safe mode with networking
Wait for it all to load then loginn.......
STEP 7: Run tor browser , it should work now since presets is blocked now it works.

FINAL STEP: Go onto the tools on the top then firefox settings then pluggins then to the tor loggo then options then allow the pluggins then restart the TOR BROWSER.

I used to use the presets folder but now it's blocked ... ^^ Good luck. e-mail me for more info.
STEP4:

Honestly, I think it's kind of a waste of money, and this is coming from a Year 9 student...
I mean, I'm on it right now, instead of doing my math homeork :L it's a distraction.
Like for real, the DET can claim its helpful all they want, but I swear all anyone uses it for in my grade is going on msn during class (yes, we've figured out how to do that within only two days of recieving it..)
Otherwise its just freaking annoying having to always carry and look after this slab, and having to constantly hibernate then restarting beteen classes. I think we've done less work since we've got them...like what's the point? only now we do our work in OneNote instead of actual excersise books...which is pretty crap anyway because when we have to study our netbooks might be crashing or updating or whatever. I guess I'm being overly negative. there are some pros, I guess, being that:

-we don't have to go to the computer room anymore
-comes with photoshop (good if your doing visual arts or pdm etc.)
-you can im people from different classes?

....that's it.

Also, a lot of people have touched on this, but the security is ridiculous. the DET really needs to work on building a better one, i mean we can access msn and facebook, but educational sites are blocked! my school's moodle was blocked for crying out loud!

this was overly long. i guess i just don't want to do math.

is safe mode the option u found around the exe blocking?

Re:LOL

Audacity is not the worst audio recording software in the world. Perhaps more importantly, it is the best free audio recording software in the world.

While your copy might not be stable, I've always found it stable wherever I've installed the Windows version.

Also, most people don't realise how the DET work, because they don't talk to the one person sent from the DET to your school.

The DET work altogether, not just one person per school.

If the person from the DET blocks a website from Western Australia, it will affect every single school, so you can't say it's unfair that it's only affecting your school.

this is bulls..t ive tried alot of things and non of them work does anyone have the quickest and easyest way to get atleast facebook on the school laptops and it has to work this time so no lies please

Sup guys. i have actually cracked the BIOS password, i am a white hat hacker for android. det obviously does not have experienced developers, i mean i cracked my brothers in 30mins.. he now has Ubuntu 11.0.2 running on it, the tso doesnt mind.
maak31tra1n@live.com

This is outrageous. What a waste of money. The laptop will just makes thing worse.
When I receieve it for the first time, I was so excited. Within the next few months, it was games all day for me and my friends. It didn't help with our education. The laptop was really nothing. Since then, I have been not using my laptop and concentrated on my school work.
WASTE OF MONEY! That is all I can say.

The laptop will only be given to you after leaving school
without filtering if you finish year 12 in a public school system.

You must ask the TSO to remove the blocking when signing out of your school, or else the filtering stays (i think). Also, soon, I bet this website will say:

Blocked Site
The site http://www.amne.com.au has been blocked. It has been classified in the category/ies none.

To leave this page please use the Back browser button or enter a new URL into the browser
...

the lap tops are gay... im in year 9, tried getting into one of these and nothing works, seriously, they have spent more time on updating the secruity and blcoking all the sites then actually making the lap tops any good, we dont have to write and thats about it, its gay i mean wow all the kids are using USBs to get into the lap tops and put movies and games on em "immature people"
its like they dont trust us with facebook or youtube cause it takes us away from our learning.... stupid

well, as a owner of this school laptop proudly given to me from the government, I don't really think these computers are that bad. But the thing I hate about them is that it is so slow and you can't search porn, go on facebook or play games, unless u have a proxy. HAHA

the laptops itself isn't wat u would call "great" quality
its more like shi* quality.
i have a Mini 10 (x100e)
the plastic around the VGA port is cracked
the battery is cracked
a x100e is suppose to have a rollcage ours doesn't have 1 it just flops around like a floppy pieceof shi*

And these laptops LAGS
i just got mine remiaged and they added all the CS5 pakage which (sadly) makes the laptop even laggier I don''t c the point of putting them onto the laptops they r too laggy to be even used properly.

i tried to edit a video in premier and it is basically playing te video 1fps

opening 2 windows at once lags the computer

opening microsoft words takes 10-15-30-60 secs on my pc (depending on wat im running atm)

i am using the laptop to read this forum...
kinda defetes the whole purpose of blocked websites

WTF. this is a forum for school laptops, not Russian diets.

These laptops are worse than nothing. Everyone spends their time playing games (Tetris is "in" at the moment) and not learning anything. Everyone's handwriting looks terrible and all the teacher think it's good to set us work on these laptops. Of course, there's a few people who've forgotten their laptops, their laptops aren't charged or their laptops are just stuffed up. They then end up having to just sit there because teachers can't be bothered running off hard copies for them. Currently my laptop is stuffed up.
@anon: I got here by googling, "I hate school laptops"

These computers are a piece of junk, their so damn slow, and everything is blocked, even many earning sites.

yeer like that you can use internet at home but why are like all the good sites blocked does anyone know how to unblock them?????

@anon. (above)
I totally agree with you. Like, seriously, we have to carry our usual load of books (including textbooks) and then the laptop as well as our P.E clothing and such on some days. It's stupid to have to bring your books as well as the laptop. I don't get the point of it. It would be better if we didn't have to bring any books and substitute it with the laptop. Also, there are programs that i would LOVE to use, but they don't work. Seriously, what's the point? Things like MSN & iTunes are installed, but don't work. Either way, I personally think it's a stupid idea. We didn't even get the choice or the laptop. We had to sign the papers and then we were forced to bring it to school everyday; otherwise, we'd get into trouble. The DET is really naive if they think blocking everything will solve the use of using youtube, playing games or even going through explicit sites. There is a way through everything. I've seen it done with my own eyes and I'm going to try it soon enough.

reinstall windows drrr

itunes does work on my green 2011 school laptop and facebook and msn and the teacher doesnt care.

i agree i am a student they gave use apple macbook pros and they blocked all the web sites it sucks im gunna get some one to hake the server and mess ther lifes up

for those tying to impersanate the department of nsw. at least get the speeling right

the crap thing is about these laptops they block everything you can't even get information relating to school work that is blocked.
and plus when people finish yr 12 are they going to unblock it or they just lying.

the new lenovo x130e 's r alright but they blocked eveything '

pretty lameogameo
but whatevs,
i only have an issue with the DET PORTAL BEING BLOCKED.
WTF IS GOING ON THEIR CHAIRMEN MAO

ya it is weird i can't get into the student portal... Im in Year 9 and i was like so excited when i got the laptop then i realized half the sites i go to are blocked, no VLC or firefox... so yeah. And MSN doesnt work on mine either, or is mine just weird?

Guys, if you want to just unblock everything its very easy. Just navigate to your keyboard and press the F13 button. It automatically unblocks everything and leaves you with a smile on your face :)

I did h4x my bull sh!t laptop so easily... I gained administration access. And that will allow me to disable bluecoat and let me run .exe files... To all you script skids. I am not going to tell you... Go figure. Even if I did tell you... Your going to get caught so easily. So it's best only to "hack" these laptops if you know what your actually doing, don't even attempt if your an absoloute n00b. or a script skid. You need to be => hacker level, or else just wait till you finish year 12... Then you can gain access to all them pr0n sites you wanted to get on... lol sad wankers, get a life really. The hardware on them sh!t tops are useles...

YOU GUYS ARE SO STUPID. THIS WEBSITE IS MONITORED BY THE DET, AND EVERY TIME YOU POST HOW TO HACK YOUR LAPTOPS YOU ARE JUST GIVING THE DET AN OPPURUNITY TO CREATE AN UPDATE FOR THE LAPTOPS. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE ONES THE Appdata FOLDERS AND ADOBE FOLDERS GOT PATCHED.

why is every one wanting to "hack" there laptops and yes det people can see this website hell all i want is msn at home on my laptop due to the fact that my desktop pc is currantly not working ie the cpu is fried

ps det ......... i hate you guys

the bios password for x130e is nothing, just type enter, even though they ask for a password.

Awesome post.