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Originally Posted by Staz Ok enough about my Mother-in-law. Do you have any of those 400 undergrads that are that bad? Any horor stories? |
Wo forgot about this thread for a while.
The people at college haven't been giving me any trouble. In my position I'm not someone to piss off and most of them seem to be pretty computer literate. One girl got threatened by the RIAA for usin bit torrent and had her connection suspended for a while but I didn't get told about it till afterwards. Another girl has a windows 98 IBM thinkpad with a PCMCIA xircom net card - can I get the right drivers for it? yeah right.
Finally we had problems with one girl whos pc was only occasionally picking up an address from the dhcp server (on win xp home). I looked at it a few times then deferred to the college employees who are paid to do this stuff and know what they're doing. After a couple of days they came and checked the net cable and couldn't work it out. They basically said try someone else's laptop on it and see what happens. She doesn't talk to me much anymore...
I cna't see many horror stories happening because the most common faults are IP addresses expiring (which cna easily eb sorted over the phone) and if its more complicated they're all within 5 minutes walk.
Fresher's week in october will be a nightmare though. We have to check all their computers for virii and update windows and their AV before they can be connected. There's about 150 of them coming to our college. The guy last year said it took him all term to get sorted.