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January 17, 2005
Computing at DMCI
Hello, folks! I am in school. The connection here surprisingly sucks. Half the time, it is broken. Half the time, your computer freezes. The other half (there are three halves, what?), it sort of works. But right now, it sort of doesn’t work. When you want to download a “large enough” file, at first it goes relatively quickly (say at 30K/sec) but then it just as quickly slows down to (5K/sec).
Logging in takes like half an hour. Graduates might not be familiar with the “New System”. First, you have to wait for the Script Logic to load. It says “Registered to 15512 users”. Do I need to know that? Do I want to know that? No. Then why do I know that? Because the progress bar is always on strike. It simply doesn’t show progress. Then, when you do log in, you are bombarded by a McAfee security checks. You promptly close those.
Then you want to open the web browser. Once you open it, it takes you to the Cyberlinks page. The page takes 10 seconds to load and does not conform to the W3C standards. You wanna click the “STOP LOADING” button but the browser doesn’t listen. Finally you manage to type in the URL for blog posting. You write your entry and set the post status to “publish”. Except, it doesn’t get published (luckily it still gets saved, so I would have to republish it later at home).
There is this annoying floating language/drawing bar. Every time you minimize it, you get a dialog that this bar is actually useful, and tells you how you can bring it back. Also, it asks you whether or not to show the dialog again. You click the checkbox, but the thing doesn’t go away - it keeps coming back the next time you log in. How horrible.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at January 17, 2005 05:20 PM
Comments
You have my condolences. If the school spent money on computers instead of hiring inept teachers such as (in the past, fortunately) Ms. Shier, Ms. Stewart, or Mr. Prior, perhaps we could get stuff done.
Posted by: aSo at January 17, 2005 05:24 PM
Ya they are piles of garbage, i wouldnt buy them for 10 bucks. For my physics presentation, I brought a floppy disk with my presentation on it(because one of the computers ate my CD last time, like how those vending machines eat quarters)... then guess what? IT DOESNT HAVE A FLOPPY DISK DRIVE... and i was forced to logg on to one of the computers that have a floppy disk drive, which too me half an hour, send it to my email, took me another half an hour, and finally presented with the last 5-10 minutes.
Posted by: Eric C at January 17, 2005 05:35 PM