I honestly don’t know if I will make it through the school year or not. The network has been driving us absolutely insane. Especially me.
First, I teach webmastering. Have the time the internet isn’t up. Oh, did I mention we don’t have a textbook? Everything we do, we got off an online site. Well, that works really really well, when the internet is down. Or, you have to push the F5 key 5 times to actually get a page. Not exaggerated, I’ve counted.
Second, I teach computer science. When you do a search on a computer science topic, half the results are blocked because the site is a blog or a forum. I hate to tell the network engineers this, BUT all the good technical writing is done on forums and blogs.
The latest? A little piece of work called squid that gives us a weird error message when we try to upload a zip file. I did a searc on it this morning and this time, about 80% of the sites related to the error message were blocked. So I dropped it in the hands of my server guys, who I’ve overworked on another problem earlier this week.
I have been having my students zip up their VB programs, and send me the whole directory, but we can’t do that now.
Oh, and does it help network performance. NOPE! It’s the worst it’s ever been.
9 more days.