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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

Okay my mom just called me at school, I got a parcel in today from Amazon.com and *deep breath* THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll read the book AS SOON AS I GET HOME!!! [Party]

Posted by AntiCool (Member # 7386) on :

You darn well better read it!

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

You're welcome. [Smile]

Enjoy the book.

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

hehehe, I also learned today how to access my computer from school. Remote desktop connection. [Cool]

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

*blink* Your school permits Remote Desktop connections through their firewall?

Man, when I was a kid, I would have gotten so expelled....

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

Well this is John Abbott College, and we have a very kind hearted systems administrator named debby. She respects us, she wants to put ch burners on every computer in our 4 computer science computer labs.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I feel old. I'm a network administrator and yet have no idea what a ch burner is.

Posted by Quimby2999 (Member # 7044) on :

I feel confused because I think that was a typo. If it wasn't then I feel confused and stupid. And if it was and you realized that and were just joking then I feel like a confused, stupid, idiot.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

When I ordered my laptop I put in that I wanted a DC Burner and the dang Dept. of Homeland Security won't leave me alone.

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

[Laugh]

ya I mean CD not ch

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

Very cool Tom. Or I guess, to use a term you would understand, groovy. [Cool]

Posted by DarkKnight (Member # 7536) on :

I share your pain TomDavidson, I'm an IT geek for a K-12 school district, and keeping kids out of where they don't belong is very hard to do. Kids are very clever, and absolutely will think of things that adults would never think of. Good thing I stay in constant contact with my inner child [Smile]

That was a very nice thing you did too!!!

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

My boys, when in high school, found every way around the firewall they could -- even though I warned them they would have to deal with the consequences if they got caught.

It wasn't really so much that they really wanted outside the firewall -- it was just the challenge it presented -- to see if they could outsmart the IT tech. It is all a big game....

Farmgirl

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

"She respects us, she wants to put ch burners on every computer in our 4 computer science computer labs."

I'm actually kind of surprised that your four comp-sci labs aren't already equipped with CD burners. They're kind of standard equipment.

If she really respected you, she'd put in media card readers. [Wink]

j/k

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

Well that may go a little far. There's not enough money to upgrade all of the computers, so only one lab has its computers upgraded and the older computers thus cycles through. Lab A comps go to Lab B, Lab B to Lab C for example. But ya... I don't think I'm allowed to play games via remote desktop connection... If I get caught things might get messy though...