On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:46, C Falconer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 18:47, John Carter wrote: > > Now I'm trying to "connect the dots"... > > > > Wife needs access to the 'net at home and at Canty. Needs it portable so > > she can just slip in a CD and connect something to a serial port. > > (Opening boxes tend to make the local BOfH's nervous...) Something like > > http://www.datahunter.com/serialan.html > > would do. (I wonder how much they (or equivalent) cost?) > > Regardless of what you want to do - whether you're allowed to or not is > the big question. Installing any unlicenced software is the block... > As a network guy I actively block unauthorised executable files - and > any network admin worth his salt does the same.
For comp. science students? Talk about being a B from H! I can just see the memo now, "Computer Science students shall do no programming, they will only be permitted to write treatises (in the abstract of course) on the classic works of the great Master's at Redmond." > Where do you live relative to the university? For home we'd have a dish pointing at the repeater on the hills. > I've been playing with > wlan/wireless and my best range with the standard aerial is 150 metres > out across the school fields. Within buildings I've had problems > getting a decent signal in the next room. There would have to be a repeater on campus, probably on one of the buildings. Or possibly in the labs. > How about this for an answer - get a GSM modem and get direct net access > on your laptop anywhere anytime with noone to tell you what can and > can't be installed on their machines. The call costs on cell phones are quite nasty, and a lap top is expensive and irritating to use. Not to mention she has to also access the course related stuff on the lab computers. > Or go without - net access is not required for study (or so they tried > to tell me...) Move over Third World. Here comes New Zealand! Dear God! In this day what more important resource for study can there be? Given the hard choice of 'net or library, I'd take the 'net. (You undoubtably need high quality in both to deserve the name University) -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Every time you say you don't believe in Windows taking over the world, a Microsoft marketing executive dies.
