Line Up In Line, Line Up In Line

[pseudnik]

I have an hour to kill and no work to do. To make matters worse, you aren't allowed to listen to music, play games or look at porn on college computers. I think it's a bit much for them to ban all of my hobbies

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[edithmatilda]

On uni computers we had similar rules, and horrible right-click-disabled IE, so I ran Firefox and Winamp Lite on a usb drivethingy, with music on a CD as MP3s. I felt very Subversive and Cool despite being clearly very very lame and so scaredy that I kept an Educational Audio-Using Thing open at all times to justify earphones.

I find the whole restricted-computer thing a bit rubbish considering that I can't do academic work without music. (Or at all, but that is a different issue.) As if computers were tedious souped-up word processors instead of BRILLIANT SHINY TOYS. Booo.

[pseudnik]

I haven't even started moaning about having to use IE again. I did consider just downloading Firefox onto the college system, but I thought that might be rude. I didn't know you could run it from a USB drive thingy.

Nobody told me that people don't use floppy disks any more. The tutor acted like I wanted to scratch all of my work onto a gramophone record. He sent me out to buy a USB drive thingy, but I didn't really know what one was so I had to pretty much Lionel Blair my way through the purchase.

[edithmatilda]

I know you used to be able to, but I can only find instructions for Thunderbird now. Boo. Shall have another look when more awake. I think it was a basic install on to the USBthingy and then starting it with a batch file (oh the nostalgia of it!) wherein you specified where the cache and profile were so it knew to look for them on USBthing. I think Firefox may have become a bit big and fancy for that these days. Bah

[pseudnik]

I think he was trying to justify the fact that they had just bought a load of computers without floppy drives. They sent him off to the computer market and all he came back with was a handful of magic USB ports.