My school's student computing center is jurassic..

[deftron]

I need a way to get files off my laptop to the computers in the Computing Center at my school.

My laptop doesn't have a Floppy drive.. so I was going to get one of those USB pen drives.

I remebered the computers in the Computing Center had front USB ports so I thought that would be the best way
to go... considering pen drives dont need drivers or anything

Well, tonight I realized the computers there are running NT ! ARGhgh..

NT still doesn't support USB, does it?

Damn, now I gotta get a serial or USB floppy drive.

I was going to inquire about just hooking up my laptop to the school network, but all the people
that work in the computing center are like computer security nazis, and dumb, too (I've overheard their conversations), so
I figured no chance anyways.. I got yelled at before because I needed to print a Word file I had emailed
to myself (student email account). They have a sign, NO DOWNLOADING ATTACHMENTS. And actually blocked downloading
attachments on the machines.. I added the domian for the student Webmail to IE's trusted sites, and they went ballistic.

What is their problem? The main concern they need to be worrying about is dumbasses putting spyware on the machines..
I swear every one of them has XUPITER as the home page, and tons of Gator pop ups and crap.

 

[notfred]

My school has free wifi for any students.

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: notfred
My school has free wifi for any students.

Bastage!

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: deftron

Originally posted by: notfred
My school has free wifi for any students.

Bastage!

Also, if you don't have a wireless card, there are ethernet ports in the student union and most of the labs you can use

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: deftron

Originally posted by: notfred
My school has free wifi for any students.

Bastage!

Also, if you don't have a wireless card, there are ethernet ports in the student union and most of the labs you can use

Ditto for UW. No matter where you are on campus, you're within 5 minutes of a wifi point (17 or so total).

 

[Walleye]

how about this? host it on your webspace, geocities if ya have to, then go to it while on school computers? then d/l it, and use it! that's the way i get homework assignments i forget to school is a briefcase that connects automatically to my FTP client to my webspace. really pretty cool stuff.

 

[777php]

I'm posting from my campus's WiFi connection right now.

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: Walleye
how about this? host it on your webspace, geocities if ya have to, then go to it while on school computers? then d/l it, and use it! that's the way i get homework assignments i forget to school is a briefcase that connects automatically to my FTP client to my webspace. really pretty cool stuff.

I was mainly talking about typing something while I'm at school (on the laptop)

and printing it there.

 

[chiwawa626]

What are the files that u need to download? Are they executables, text...??