Just how stupid are lecturers these days...

JohnCleary

Just got this email from a COMPUTING lecturer. He also deals with audio visual projects etc. and claims to be a guru at this kind of stuff.....

A couple of times recently, students have altered the display settings so that the image you see on the monitor is flipped by 90 degrees.

This means you have to essentially turn the monitor on its side in order to use it.

A couple of things:

- Never turn the monitor on its side, use another PC or inform your lecturer. These monitors were not designed for this and can be damaged.

- The altering of the image is not happening accidentally, someone is doing it. Just so you know there is a camera in the room but also any changes to the display drivers are registered on the PC in a number of areas, with your Student ID, time and date stamped in most cases.


The cost of getting a monitor checked out would be a couple of hundred, the cost of replacement much more than that plus formal disciplinary proceedings against the student who altered the image.

The next time it happens, the person will be detected.


I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I did reply to his email with this image attached: http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/1582/original/picard-facepalm.jpg

Long Onion

FAS much?

Korvanica

And he is allowed to teach?

This is more suitable

Ri_Nollaig

why cant you just tilt your head?

amacachi

Just like that message, I'm not being sarcastic in this post at all.

The Chisel

JohnCleary wrote: »

Just got this email from a COMPUTING lecturer. He also deals with audio visual projects etc. and claims to be a guru at this kind of stuff.....

A couple of times recently, students have altered the display settings so that the image you see on the monitor is flipped by 90 degrees.

This means you have to essentially turn the monitor on its side in order to use it.

A couple of things:

- Never turn the monitor on its side, use another PC or inform your lecturer. These monitors were not designed for this and can be damaged.

- The altering of the image is not happening accidentally, someone is doing it. Just so you know there is a camera in the room but also any changes to the display drivers are registered on the PC in a number of areas, with your Student ID, time and date stamped in most cases.


The cost of getting a monitor checked out would be a couple of hundred, the cost of replacement much more than that plus formal disciplinary proceedings against the student who altered the image.

The next time it happens, the person will be detected.


I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I did reply to his email with this image attached: http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/1582/original/picard-facepalm.jpg

Joke's on you, mate. He's clearly taking the piss in order to deter people messing with the display settings, by pretending they can be detected.

JohnCleary

The Chisel wrote: »

Joke's on you, mate. He's clearly taking the piss in order to deter people messing with the display settings, by pretending they can be detected.

Unfortunately, he's being genuine. I know this because I had him as a lecturer for 2 years :rolleyes:

Yes, he's scaremongering, but i' be confident that he didn't know the AltGr trick and reckons that the display was altered in Display Settings.

With the permissions (or lack of) that students have, you can't change Display Settings. Why claim someone is doing something that they can't?

RandolphEsq

JohnCleary wrote: »

Just got this email from a COMPUTING lecturer. He also deals with audio visual projects etc. and claims to be a guru at this kind of stuff.....

A couple of times recently, students have altered the display settings so that the image you see on the monitor is flipped by 90 degrees.

This means you have to essentially turn the monitor on its side in order to use it.

A couple of things:

- Never turn the monitor on its side, use another PC or inform your lecturer. These monitors were not designed for this and can be damaged.

- The altering of the image is not happening accidentally, someone is doing it. Just so you know there is a camera in the room but also any changes to the display drivers are registered on the PC in a number of areas, with your Student ID, time and date stamped in most cases.


The cost of getting a monitor checked out would be a couple of hundred, the cost of replacement much more than that plus formal disciplinary proceedings against the student who altered the image.

The next time it happens, the person will be detected.


I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I did reply to his email with this image attached: http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/1582/original/picard-facepalm.jpg

I don't really get what's going on here

pickarooney

A couple of hundred quid for someone to press Ctrl-Alt-UpArrow... are these guys on government contracts? Not to mention 'much more' for a new monitor.

brianthebard

JohnCleary wrote: »

Unfortunately, he's being genuine. I know this because I had him as a lecturer for 2 years :rolleyes:

Yes, he's scaremongering, but i' be confident that he didn't know the AltGr trick and reckons that the display was altered in Display Settings.

With the permissions (or lack of) that students have, you can't change Display Settings. Why claim someone is doing something that they can't?

Even if he does know, why would he go around telling people? Clearly the email is designed to stop it, not encourage it. Don't see the problem op, looks like the palm is on the other face!

iregk

If he knew what he was about you'd think he'd just disable the rotation on the video card.

Gurgle

JohnCleary wrote: »

The next time it happens, the person will be detected.

So... if you can detect them next time why can't you detect them last time?
(Never mind that a monkey could fix it)

That's clearly a piss take, OP.

mickoneill30

Gurgle wrote: »

So... if you can detect them next time why can't you detect them last time?
(Never mind that a monkey could fix it)

Registry auditing isn't turned on by default but it's not hard to turn on if somebody is messing about with the PC or group of PCs. Dunno about linux but that's not too hard to audit for a lot of stuff too.

A monkey can fix it, but a monkey can also catch who's doing it as long as the settings are set in the registry (I'd imagine they are).

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

JohnCleary wrote: »

Just got this email from a COMPUTING lecturer. He also deals with audio visual projects etc. and claims to be a guru at this kind of stuff.....

A couple of times recently, students have altered the display settings so that the image you see on the monitor is flipped by 90 degrees.

This means you have to essentially turn the monitor on its side in order to use it.

A couple of things:

- Never turn the monitor on its side, use another PC or inform your lecturer. These monitors were not designed for this and can be damaged.

- The altering of the image is not happening accidentally, someone is doing it. Just so you know there is a camera in the room but also any changes to the display drivers are registered on the PC in a number of areas, with your Student ID, time and date stamped in most cases.


The cost of getting a monitor checked out would be a couple of hundred, the cost of replacement much more than that plus formal disciplinary proceedings against the student who altered the image.

The next time it happens, the person will be detected.


I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I did reply to his email with this image attached: http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/1582/original/picard-facepalm.jpg

hahaha!
A few of us used to do that, back when we were in 2 year (in the same college as you). we used to turn the screen 180 degrees! I think I know the guy you are on about too.

Jesus Juice

Tbh,thats the worst facepalm I've ever heard in my life.
And I don't mean the type that made me lol.

Bob_Harris

Take a screen shot of the desktop, set it as the background, then delete all the desktop icons.

See how he likes that :pac:

LadyJ

I have a cultural care studies lecturer this year who, when we were discussing India and what they eat/wear over there, said "Yes and they love to wear feathers as well and the head-dresses".....

Cue shocked expressions and somebody finally saying "Eh...is that not American Indians?"

She seemed oblivious and told us it was all the same.

hal9000

Can someone explain to me what this means, one of my students keeps sending it to me?

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt353/logiire/picard-facepalm-1.jpg

JohnCleary

hal9000 wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what this means, one of my students keeps sending it to me?

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt353/logiire/picard-facepalm-1.jpg

Genius

Overheal

[quote=[Deleted User];62663374]That's clearly a piss take, OP.[/quote]
Honestly? I dont think so.

Unless someone had showed me that keystroke when I was in college, in a computing course, I wouldnt have known about it either.

In fact I cant get it to work on my laptop. is it just a dell thing or have i completely missed something.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

[quote=[Deleted User];62663374]That's clearly a piss take, OP.[/QUOTE]

No,
I went to the same college as John, so when I seen this thread, I thought it must be the same lecturer I had in 2nd year. A quick PM confirmed it!

We did the same monitor thing in 2nd year, same guy got pissed off.

Bob_Harris

Overheal wrote: »

Honestly? I dont think so.

Unless someone had showed me that keystroke when I was in college, in a computing course, I wouldnt have known about it either.

In fact I cant get it to work on my laptop. is it just a dell thing or have i completely missed something.

Intel graphics cards chips.

kaimera

hal9000 wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what this means, one of my students keeps sending it to me?

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt353/logiire/picard-facepalm-1.jpg

so 180 is the new 90 is it?

LouOB

Talk to him in binary code he might understand you then

1000101010011100111

TheZohanS

LouOB wrote: »

Talk to him in binary code he might understand you then

1000101010011100111

01110000011100100110111101100010011000010110001001101100011110010010000001101110011011110111010000100000011101000110001001100110

Donny5

LouOB wrote: »

Talk to him in binary code he might understand you then

1000101010011100111

010001100100000101001001010011000000110100001010

Donny5

TheZohan wrote: »

01110000011100100110111101100010011000010110001001101100011110010010000001101110011011110111010000100000011101000110001001100110

01001001001000000111001101100101011001010010000001111001011011110111010100100000011000100110010101100001011101000010000001101101011001010010000001110100011011110010000001100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100101100

Sleipnir

Years spent studying and then lecturing, and just because you don't know one particular key combination, you're labelled stupid by a bunch of nerds on the internet. :rolleyes:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8203/collegenerds.png

Davidius

kaimera wrote: »

so 180 is the new 90 is it?

No, pi/2 is the new 90.

Overature

you guys have picard teaching you, what are you complaining about

Bob_Harris

Hex is where it's at

41 48 20 69 73 20 6c 69 6b 65 20 77 61 74 63 68 69 6e 67 20 61 20 62 75 6e 63 68 20 6f 66 20 72 65 74 61 72 64 73 20 74 72 79 69 6e 67 20 74 6f 20 66 75 63 6b 20 61 20 64 6f 6f 72 20 6b 6e 6f 62 2e

General Zod

Actually, it is possible to log when changes to the display drivers are made. Whiule he definitely is scaremongering, it's not without a grain of truth.

Donny5

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Hex is where it's at

41 48 20 69 73 20 6c 69 6b 65 20 77 61 74 63 68 69 6e 67 20 61 20 62 75 6e 63 68 20 6f 66 20 72 65 74 61 72 64 73 20 74 72 79 69 6e 67 20 74 6f 20 66 75 63 6b 20 61 20 64 6f 6f 72 20 6b 6e 6f 62 2e

And you like it, too, don't you?

callaway92

am I missing something here?

Bob_Harris

callaway92 wrote: »

am I missing something here?

Binary Translator

The Chisel

Donny5 wrote: »

010001100100000101001001010011000000110100001010

Donny5 wrote: »

01001001001000000111001101100101011001010010000001111001 01101111011101010010000001100010011001010110000101110100001000 00011011010110010100100000011101000110111100100000011000100110 10010110111001100001011100100111100100101100

What made you think it would be funnier to post that twice in a row? I think we got the joke the first time.

zonEEE

got the same email from him

ejmaztec

If I had one of those emails, I would have printed it off and pinned it to the college noticeboard, sideways.

jif

my head hurts after reading that

phasers

Should have went to a good college OP

TheZohanS

The Chisel wrote: »

What made you think it would be funnier to post that twice in a row? I think we got the joke the first time.

Banned, re-reg

JohnCleary

ejmaztec wrote: »

If I had one of those emails, I would have printed it off and pinned it to the college noticeboard, sideways.

Is it wrong that I LOL'ed?

johnnyskeleton

I wonder who exactly in Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to have an option to flip the screen sideways, up or down must've been a high. But whoever thought that it also needed a shortcut that can easily be pressed by accident if you have a big clumsy right paw must have been out of their mind.

I've had a few friends ring me in a panic because they've accidentally flipped their desktop sideways, but surprisingly enough no one ever rings me in a panic because they can't turn it upside down.

Matthew712

So, I should pay more taxes so you guys can pay no fees to ar-se around playing child games?

Matthew712

A lot of hate and defamatory remarks in that reply. Interesting to note that he "taught" you though. But the question remains, why can't you smart ar-ses pay for your college fees to ar-se around on daddy's money instead of all taxpayers money?

JohnCleary

Matthew712 wrote: »

A lot of hate and defamatory remarks in that reply. Interesting to note that he "taught" you though. But the question remains

He 'taught' us in the sense that we had him as a lecturer. I won't go into the details (for his own sake), but i'm sure that the few here that know the lecturer will back me up when I say that it was a self-study subject (Because the lecturer was out so often)

why can't you smart ar-ses pay for your college fees to ar-se around on daddy's money instead of all taxpayers money?

You're just making a mong of YOURSELF with comments like that, I don't even need to defend myself. Good woman yourself

ottostreet

Matthew712 wrote: »

A lot of hate and defamatory remarks in that reply. Interesting to note that he "taught" you though. But the question remains, why can't you smart ar-ses pay for your college fees to ar-se around on daddy's money instead of all taxpayers money?

Do you not feel that you might be SLIGHTLY lacking in a sense of humour?