CeeJayCee

This semester I’m taking a course where we have to design a fully autonomous robot that can play a 2-a-side game of football.

For this course, we have been designated a work bench and four desktop computers in one of the labs. One of these computers is not configured on the university network and is a standalone machine we have built ourselves (dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu) - therefore, you cannot use your regular login details on this machine. We usually leave this machine running with the screen locked and a note on it stating that it is not for normal student use (the lab, in fact, should not be used by other students either… but some students apparently still do).

When we returned to the lab on Thursday afternoon, an exchange student had restarted the machine by pressing the power button on the front (the only way to restart it from a locked screen) and attempted to boot into windows and login with their usual university login details. They were sitting at the administrator login screen, looking very puzzled as to why they couldn’t login. We promptly asked them to jump.

We now have a slightly harsher note on the computer screen: