Microsoft has NetMeeting installed on every OS except WinXP and anything under Win95. This is how I get access to my Windows 2000-based computer all over campus.
My laptop in my dorm room has a static IP address, and I have NetMeeting configured to accept remote connections. So, from any campus computer (they all have NetMeeting installed because it's installed by default) I pop in my IP address and away I go! Log in and my screen pops up.
It's extremely useful AND a great trick - start playing an MP3 remotely OR print something. it's great fun. AND useful. AND free. Sure, it's Microsoft, but hey, that's life.
Those 6 little letters (which stands for MS Development Network Academic Alliance) have become quite popular in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at my school. They offer:
- Visual Studio
-.NET Enterprise Servers
- All Microsoft operating systems, SDKs, DDKs
- Betas, new releases, updates
- Visio Professional
- MSDN Library (Documentation, technical articles, code samples)
etc. etc.
It's a lot of software, and it's all free. This just happened maybe a month ago, and the software "library" has been close to checked out of the popular software ever since. Everyone knows it's an obvious ploy to get students dependent on MS software, but a good majority don't care - we're going to need to know it for industry, we can use Linux in our spare time. But it's expensive in the real world, we get it for free, why not?
Yes, Microsoft is evil. But free. That's life, eh?
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My laptop in my dorm room has a static IP address, and I have NetMeeting configured to accept remote connections. So, from any campus computer (they all have NetMeeting installed because it's installed by default) I pop in my IP address and away I go! Log in and my screen pops up.
It's extremely useful AND a great trick - start playing an MP3 remotely OR print something. it's great fun. AND useful. AND free. Sure, it's Microsoft, but hey, that's life.
Those 6 little letters (which stands for MS Development Network Academic Alliance) have become quite popular in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at my school. They offer: - Visual Studio - .NET Enterprise Servers
- All Microsoft operating systems, SDKs, DDKs
- Betas, new releases, updates
- Visio Professional
- MSDN Library (Documentation, technical articles, code samples)
etc. etc.
It's a lot of software, and it's all free. This just happened maybe a month ago, and the software "library" has been close to checked out of the popular software ever since. Everyone knows it's an obvious ploy to get students dependent on MS software, but a good majority don't care - we're going to need to know it for industry, we can use Linux in our spare time. But it's expensive in the real world, we get it for free, why not?
Yes, Microsoft is evil. But free. That's life, eh?