Thursday, February 25, 2010

Se-cuh-ri-dee

Well, on our computer, we installed deepfreeze, and created an image of our computer, to be rebooted whenever the computer shut down. Unfortunately, this conflicted with our use of GPEDIT.MSC . Because deepfreeze resets the computer, gpedit settings could not be saved. If you tried to do GPEDIT, the you could not deepfreeze, because you didn't have the permission to save and access/install the package. Through an interesting amalgam of both, although I'm not sure of the specifics, we limited computer rights and created a deepfreeze on our hard drive. So our computer was relatively secure. When we went to hack the SuperTrooper's computer, we used OPHcrack to try and find out their admin password. Unfortunately, booting to this cd, or something else we did early on in the competition messed up their computer. We used ERD commander to edit the registry from a live CD, and changed to path of the wallpaper to get it from the C:\ drive, where we saved our logo. It didn't work that way. We booted up and the background didn't change. Then the computer froze again. So we decided the only way to fix this problem was to do a repair install of XP. We did this, waited for 20 minutes, only to have the installation freeze. We assumed that the only logical path of action would be to reformat, which was against the rules. So near the end, we sat for a while, then we told T the situation, and he ended the contest, because it was really supposed to be over anyway. So we tied with the superlosers, and the now 4 stooges.

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