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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Jan 2007 22:45
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Sitting at school, doing a little research for a marketing plan, and I came across a Q&A with Scott McNealy.

Top 10 Excuses for Not Turning in Homework
10. Tech support for my PC was offshored
9. Had to delete it to make room for iTunes
8. Still hand-writing it, productivity suite license too expensive
7. I emailed it... didn’t you get it?
6. Couldn’t afford HP ink cartridge
5. T%k t% lng 2 QWERTY – txt 2 U instead? Translation: "Took too long to type on regular keyboard, can I text it to you instead?"
4. "Cut and Paste" keys were worn out
3. Plan on "open sourcing" from kid next to me
2. Busy writing the "I Love You Too" virus
1. The dog chewed-up my laptop


And some quotes from him I liked:
"All technology has the shelf life of a banana."
"All the wood behind one arrow."
"Without choice, you have no innovation. And without innovation, you have nothing."

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Xander
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Posted: 26th Jan 2007 22:58
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Number 7 happens here all the time, seriously. Our campus is supposed to be "high-tech" with all of the students issued laptops. Well, issued is the wrong word. Forced to lease is a better phrase to describe it. So the teachers use a lot of online stuff. "What, you didn't get it? It must have gone in your spam and got deleted. I'll send you another one tomorrow."

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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Jan 2007 22:59
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I hate college spam filters, cause more problems than it fixes.

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Xander
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 05:04
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I consider it a blessing. It can give you an extra day to turn in papers But now they have an entire online system with a dropbox...dang...

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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 10:05
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Is your online system as bad as ours? It's so disorganized and ugly to look at, plus all the "features" that don't work. I wonder if our new system is still based on Oracle stuff, that'd explain why it never works. Tech schools have some of the worst web design.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 10:13
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Out of those, this is mine:

Quote: "Couldn’t afford HP ink cartridge"


But avoid missing homework now, but I make the odd slip up, but I get away with it, I mean last week our philosophy teacher gave Ed and Pete a real telling off, then when they were working, quietly asked if me and Helen had done ours. Not fair I know, but when you consider they've missed 13 deadlines and we've missed 3 there's a difference

At GCSE my excuses consisted of 'Printer didn't work', 'Computer died', 'Here's half of it, I left the other half at home', 'Homework? We had homework?'. Simple as those, work on the scariest teacher of them all, except once, where she gave me a chance to hand it in late, then I was going to do it, during the day, realised I had got caught in something entirely else, went to her before the lesson to try to explain and then she gave me an after school detention. The next bit I loved was the next day, she caught up with me to get rid of my after school detention and got away with the whole thing. So basically I got out of an after school with a teacher that dishes them out like sweets/candy.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 13:54 Edited at: 27th Jan 2007 13:58
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Hmm. I would have thought it would be "My PC crashed and I lost everything". It's amazing how many people seem to have PC crashes that completely wipe out all data near deadlines Considering a 1gb USB key costs like about the price of a cinema ticket these days then its a total amazement to me that backup of important data was also not done in like 100% of these cases.

Personally I have 3 USB keys that I backup important data to every day, three external USB drives that I normally backup the same data to about once a week, and a DVD writer that I use once a month to do the same thing to a re-writable DVD, and a single write once every few months (chuck in fire proof safe for ultimate protection). Oh yeah and also my iPod and mobile phone (SD card) are used everyday too. That way I *always* have a copy on me too. Oh it's all zipped and passworded up with encryption from PKZip (you can't even see the files inside which as far as I can tell Winzip cannot do, plus nothing else can unzip it but PKZip). Can't be too careful...

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 14:56
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Quote: "Considering a 1gb USB key costs like about the price of a cinema ticket these days then its a total amazement to me that backup of important data was also not done in like 100% of these cases. "


I could not believe how cheap they are now, until I bought one, popped it in my USB port and bang up pop ads for a free month of Skype, discounts on verizon DSL etc, and this awful launchpad that scrolls ads you cant delete.

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Robin
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 15:16 Edited at: 27th Jan 2007 15:17
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I got a new 1GB usb drive for £0.99p on ebay a few weeks ago P+P was £9.99 (They were based in Guernsey!) but it was still a good deal I think. There were no adverts or anything preinstalled on it either.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 16:53
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Hobgoblin, that's 'cos you've got Autoplay enabled (you should never have it on in Windows... It's too easy for something to install itself without you ever knowing!).

Disable autoplay, then jump into the USB drive directory and have 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' and there should be some sort of 'Autoplay' file, and whatever programs the ads came from - delete them all, and she'll work just like a regular plug'n'play device

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 04:19
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I paid $45 for my 1GB last year. It is an OCZ dual channel, and various research of specs on several brands and models did lead me to believe it is the fastest usb drive on the market.

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Silvester
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 13:43
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I always say i had very much hurry to pack my stuff because i'd miss the bus,and i accidently trew it next to my bag as i think,or that i just forgot we had that lesson

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Cian Rice
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 23:10
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Number 7... always works. How I love it so! <.<

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