that is how I got around all the internet filters in our high school. nothing makes you feel more like a hacker than punching some numbers on a calculator while all your friends watch, and bam, you're browsing forbidden websites while they all say "whoaa!"

Same thing happened to me in 1998 but in tech school. Good times. ;)

For those who are curious how the conversion was done: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/IP2Integer.jsp