I suppose it was worth a try...or not

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:12 am

yeah...didn't really expect gamespy to be accessible at school...

oh well.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:07 pm

bummer, i was thinking about putting halo trial onto a flash drive and playing it, but i guess i wont be able to get connected

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:57 pm

It depends on the school district. Our school uses "Websense". School districts which use their own home-made system would be much more likely to allow access.

As for putting halo trial on a flash drive, I'm not sure if it would work, whatwith the need for registry keys and such. I just brought my laptop and plugged it into the network, and I was able to access the internet fine. The system blocks certain IPs and addresses, the gamespy server being one of them. However, it is likely that I could run a server within the school, and anyone else within the district could join.

From what I've observed, the servers and blocking systems within my school district work as follows:
They block certain IPs and domains
They do not allow outgoing traffic on certain ports
They do not allow incomming traffic on certain ports
Traffic destined toward certain ports will be blocked.

Last year, when I tried to access my computer at home via remote desktop, I was unsuccessful. Remote desktop uses port 3389 by default. I went into the registry and changed it to use port 21, which I knew would be acceptable for the districts filters.(21 is used for FTP transfers usually, so blocking it would be bad)

If a server outside the school district were to be accessible from within a school district, it would have to use one of a handful of acceptable ports. And clients would have to know the IP of it, set their ports to acceptable ports, and connect to it directly.

Rallos · Post by **Rallos** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:01 pm

-Laser- wrote:As for putting halo trial on a flash drive, I'm not sure if it would work, whatwith the need for registry keys and such. I just brought my laptop and plugged it into the network, and I was able to access the internet fine. The system blocks certain IPs and addresses, the gamespy server being one of them. However, it is likely that I could run a server within the school, and anyone else within the district could join.

You could probably bring the installer on a flash drive though

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:27 pm

no what u simply do is boot it form teh flash drive. copy and paste the halo trial folder onto the flashdrive and then it has all the files it needs to boot form the drive. i did ti with firefox before the comps at school had it but i havent tested halo, it might work

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:54 pm

Well I know it wouldnt work as easily with the full version of halo. The full version stores its serial in the registry. If it cant find the serial, it wont work.

and firefox has a portable device optimized version, just so you know.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:16 pm

Be happy. My school's computers can't even run Halo Zero...

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:19 pm

RaVNzCRoFT wrote:Be happy. My school's computers can't even run Halo Zero...

lol. =P

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:34 pm

RaVNzCRoFT wrote:Be happy. My school's computers can't even run Halo Zero...

True mine neither.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:14 am

My school PCs can't run shit all and the guy in charge is paranoid.

= avoid school PCs at all costs

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:14 pm

yeah. school pcs aren't good for much more than freeware games.

come the beginning of school i'll make a tutorial on the multiple fun things you can do at school, whether it's play freeware games, surf wherever you want, etc.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:20 pm

fishface617 wrote:bummer, i was thinking about putting halo trial onto a flash drive and playing it, but i guess i wont be able to get connected

a bunch of people did that at my school, and, for a while got a while with playing it on LAN lol.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:17 am

At Shawnee State University, Ohio, there is a room. And in that room, all the computers have 256mb graphics cards, 2 CPUs, and Battlefront 2. I call that room heaven.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:18 am

I hate you. >_>

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:56 am

Can you giant XBL party at school with T1 connection!

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:32 am

Hahaha, T1, that's funny, at least for my school... My schools server crashes at least twice a day, all of their "Tech Guys" are the dumbest people I've ever met in my life.