"Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > Did you end up figuring out who this person is, or not?
I never did other than the fact that he probably goes by the name of Jon. I would really need to have access to the logs to determine who logged in at that lab by that name. Otherwise it would be more work to determine who the person was. I have to agree my University is Windows only and a good lab tech, or administrator should of detected it right away. That is why I am not surprised that people get away with this, 97% of the computers I log onto have outdated bioses, and older versions of software that is not patched. For example that computer had a bios version of A00, an old Dell probably 5 years old, with a crt monitor, and a dusty keyboard with a manual rollbar mouse. That is why I was surprised that networking was not working. Parentally someone has setup something correctly, I give credit to Novel as the University uses their software for networking. I can't even get a ping, but I did not try a static IP address, just ifconfig, and dhclient to see if I could talk to the router, but no dice. Whats even more funny is this was located in the math building, and the lab is supposedly run by the math, and computer science department. I use to carry around baby wipes, to clean the screens, and keyboards of the computers I used. It's kind of funny, you would think that the lab techs would do that on occasion, but no one seems to bother. I do notice that if you do clean a few screens and keyboards, students seem to want those computers more. I only use the labs to save on printing ink at home, even with that I use one ink cartridge every 3-4 months. I was talking to one of my professors she was telling us that the department was forcing them to use outlook as their mail client. You would get in trouble if you used another client, or any unauthorized mail agent such as webmail, Goggle or other such stuff. So I am not surprised that students get away with this stuff, put what gets me is my University is trying to do Microsoft on the cheap. You would think that Open Source would have a really good hold at a place like this, but it doesn't. What I mean is they the University wants everyone to use Microsoft but they require the students to purchase the license. In fact the University bookstore does not sell software, in order to get a student license you need to go to an office in a basement and fill out a special form then pay the student price, then take back the receipt to the same place then they will give you the discs. I have even thought about writing a professor .doc howto to tell students and professors of how to use Open Source software such as Open Office, and how to use tools such as catdoc, and Goggle to do papers and projects. As an example I was sent a .doc file of like two sentences that took up 25 kilobytes, no special headers, or frames was needed after saving it to .txt it was like 8 kilobytes. I mean the professor could of just c/p it to an email but had to use it as an attachment. I mean I could really write a ten page howto, just to explain the benefits of not using .doc and ppt, how pdf, htlm are preferred just to not confuse students. Oh if your curious about what University I attend it's the University of Memphis, not that it makes any difference. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
