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(Leo is an amalgam of myself and another person as the story we submitted was modified for privacy reasons).
The most interesting thing was the patterns you could see with various teachers and pw reset policies. Some had themes like seasonal, others would take the current month and tack-on a number.
I ended up getting expelled for using that domain admin account to poke around. Had to transfer to a different school and was perma-banned from touching a computer for the rest of my time there. It ended up being a blessing in disguise, I had a lot more fun and grew up a lot at the other, larger high school. I still recall my guidance counselor helping me setup my classes for senior year... "ok, yeah and we'll put you in programming for your elective... OH WAIT... you aren't allowed to be anywhere near a computer, ceramics it is". Ceramics ended up being a blast!
I really enjoyed the 'security tools distribution'
There was a time that this was the easiest way to install Debian.
Klaus Knopper is a hero for creating it. Clever guy.
At one point in the very early 2000s my HDD failed and I was diskless for a while. I used Knoppix to be able to run things using a floppy to store my configs. I've been using Linux as daily driver ever since. The necessity to do a trial by fire made me pretty good at it and helped me in my professional life as well. Thank you Knoppix.
Similar but with a 16mb usb drive for my settings and apps. Ran pretty well since I only used an msn clone, web browser, occasional types assignment and some Winamp clone. Had an an external hdd for my media do it covered everything and just worked. Boot times didn’t matter cuz it was so stable.
I feel a bit bad about that.