On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 11:47, John Carter wrote: > 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."
*sigh* No. I'm talking about the great unwashed pool of users who still run attachments and forward chain letters and install gator and gaim apps and and and ad nauseum... you know the ones. > > 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. The whole wireless community is doomed to short-range networks at best IMO. The concept of "free networking" attracts users who are after more than they put in. Would you share your gateway with Joe Random next door? > > Or go without - net access is not required for study. > 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 can't get a degree from the internet - and you don't require your own computer to access the uni's network.
