I defend my chosen genres and ramble about school.

[zorpisuttle]

There's a thread on the St. John's class of 2011 facebook community about what books we can't live without (and are therefore planning to bring with us) and everyone appears to have such literary tastes- some of these people have the entire AP English syllabus on their must-bring list, it looks like. Whereas I am planning to bring a whole bunch of

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[dwh]

Actually, it could be argued that fantasy is the purer form of literature- unsullied by the ways of the world, and not required to conform to society's demands. Furthermore, it allows us to ask moral and ethical questions that may not necessarily be possible in the real world, but have applications to real situations.

Of course, you're talking to the person who has an entire bookcase full of Star Wars novels and doesn't leave home without the original Timothy Zahn trilogy.

And what do you mean their network doesn't support Vista? That just sounds silly to me... you ought to be able to get internet regardless, because let's be honest, the protocol doesn't change between one operating system and the next (really, it doesn't. I swear. Do you want to know about DNS, HTTP and WWW? I've been reading about it ALL AFTERNOON). I bet it just means their tech support guys won't know what to do with it, or if they have programs they might not be guaranteed to work on Vista.

Psssh. The beautiful thing about computer network technology is that it's platform independent. The operating system figures out what to do with the network, not the other way around. Tell them they're dumb.

[zorpisuttle]

In a word: Word.

Also, your internet-savvy heartens me greatly!

[dwh]

Let us hope this translates into a good grade on my networks final!

[zorpisuttle]

It shall. :D I decree it.

[jkhuggins]

What she said.

Seriously, though, in IT-speak, what St. John's probably means is "if you have problems with Vista, you're on your own". They'll probably give you IP access and allow you to register your MAC address just fine. But you won't be able to call them and ask them for help if anything goes wrong.

I can understand this completely ... Vista is a big deal, and IT departments don't want to say "We support this" until they're absolutely ready, and that includes making sure that all of the officially-endorsed software works on Vista (a decidedly non-trivial precondition).

[zorpisuttle]

Yes, that's about the impression I got, I just didn't know what "network support" actually meant. Thank you (both) for shedding some light on that. :)