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First off, West Virginia University IT dept. is the most paranoid dept. i've seen anywhere. By the end of last year they had it so that if two computers weren't on the same router, they couldn't see each other at all.
The WVU help desk charges $15 (or at least they did) for any computer that they have to "crack the case" inserting NIC's making sure a PCI NIC isn't in a ISA slot...or for that matter making sure a laptop nic isn't shoved into a floppy disk drive....yup seen it happen. For just normal OS type troubleshooting, it's free. What I've done is gone around and charged $10 for whatever is wrong. IT didn't like when they heard about this, but eventually when they saw how many people they didn't have to deal with, they didn't care.
A few other notes....DCHP does save headaches....WVU's network setup is extremely simple once the NIC is in the computer and drivers are loaded. Turn computer on, open browser to any page, network registration page comes up, reboot, off you go. WVU allows Non-window and Mac OS's but does not offer support. They also tell freshman to get a 3com card.
And as for being labeled the "guy who can fix my computer" 0.25% of the female population are/or are interested in geeky stuff, and half of them don't speak english. So, you can fix her computer, but not be a "computer guy" So, after that you just have to deal with beating the label of "guy who can help me with calculus"
At West Virginia University, the only computers you can connect to in any way other than using http on port 80 are the ones on the same router as you. You can not ftp or telnet to any computer (other than one on your router) that isn't a University specified server.
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First off, West Virginia University IT dept. is the most paranoid dept. i've seen anywhere. By the end of last year they had it so that if two computers weren't on the same router, they couldn't see each other at all. The WVU help desk charges $15 (or at least they did) for any computer that they have to "crack the case" inserting NIC's making sure a PCI NIC isn't in a ISA slot...or for that matter making sure a laptop nic isn't shoved into a floppy disk drive....yup seen it happen. For just normal OS type troubleshooting, it's free. What I've done is gone around and charged $10 for whatever is wrong. IT didn't like when they heard about this, but eventually when they saw how many people they didn't have to deal with, they didn't care. A few other notes....DCHP does save headaches....WVU's network setup is extremely simple once the NIC is in the computer and drivers are loaded. Turn computer on, open browser to any page, network registration page comes up, reboot, off you go. WVU allows Non-window and Mac OS's but does not offer support. They also tell freshman to get a 3com card. And as for being labeled the "guy who can fix my computer" 0.25% of the female population are/or are interested in geeky stuff, and half of them don't speak english. So, you can fix her computer, but not be a "computer guy" So, after that you just have to deal with beating the label of "guy who can help me with calculus"
At West Virginia University, the only computers you can connect to in any way other than using http on port 80 are the ones on the same router as you. You can not ftp or telnet to any computer (other than one on your router) that isn't a University specified server.