10 Years After

Can't Get There From Here

The computers at the library are very limited in what they can do. In fact, they appear to be set up to discourage anything beyond browsing the web. That's not a problem for most students I bet. However, this afternoon I wanted to be able to make a few notes while I was here and print them out. (Normally one can only print out Web pages here.)

Frustrated I stumbled on a way to do this. When I tried to launch a powerpoint presentation I gained access to a list of applications : Acrobat reader, image preview, IE, Paint, Notepad, Media Player, and Word Pad. I entered my notes into notepad and then printed them. the only other solution would have been to email them to myself and then to have printed the email. That's a lot of wasted ink and possibly pages. Hey, I have to pay $0.05 per page - and in the library the fees come off your ID card not the $24 a semester of printing fees you get in the computer lab. And, well, the format just looks crisper.

Now you know.

It would have been nice if I could have accessed my student web page from here to save the file on the lan, but that was disabled as well.