So AOL gets 7 million for this... can I sue of at least 1 million for the AOL disks I get in snail mail once a week? They would save that much money by just not sending them to me.
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I know the feeling. I worked for the "Resnet" on my college campus for 3 years. Here's a couple ideas we did to calm the storm and major headaches.
1. As stated before... hand out pamplets with instructions. They should only call for help as a last resort.
2. We had webforms to register your machine and recieve an IP. Our campus ran on a generic DHCP where IP's were handed to specific MAC address'. And each student could only have 2 IP's. This was all done on the web.
3. We made minimum requirements for machines we would support. Must be faster than P133's.
4. We would only officially support Win95 and higher. If you were using linux or any other, you were on your own and should know how to do it yourself. But there were a few of us that were linux savvy and willing to help.
There were quite a few other things we did that helped out. Installathons at individual dorms at certain times.
I know the exhaustion of having to deal with these problems. We were a team of 10-12 people that covered our entire campus.
Good luck... and boy and I glad I graduated and don't do that anymore.
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So AOL gets 7 million for this... can I sue of at least 1 million for the AOL disks I get in snail mail once a week? They would save that much money by just not sending them to me.
I know the feeling. I worked for the "Resnet" on my college campus for 3 years. Here's a couple ideas we did to calm the storm and major headaches.
1. As stated before... hand out pamplets with instructions. They should only call for help as a last resort.
2. We had webforms to register your machine and recieve an IP. Our campus ran on a generic DHCP where IP's were handed to specific MAC address'. And each student could only have 2 IP's. This was all done on the web.
3. We made minimum requirements for machines we would support. Must be faster than P133's.
4. We would only officially support Win95 and higher. If you were using linux or any other, you were on your own and should know how to do it yourself. But there were a few of us that were linux savvy and willing to help.
There were quite a few other things we did that helped out. Installathons at individual dorms at certain times.
I know the exhaustion of having to deal with these problems. We were a team of 10-12 people that covered our entire campus.
Good luck... and boy and I glad I graduated and don't do that anymore.