How my pocket pc just made my life easier:

[delfuhd]

So, I was calmly plugging in my Logitech Webcam into my Belkin USB hub, and all of the sudden poof! all my USB devices are gone. (which includes my mouse, iPAQ, and a couple other accessories...) And I've seen this before when I kept my 3850 and 2210 plugged into USB ports together, and tried to connect both them at the same time (all the USB accessories just stop working).

THe problem was, I was speaking to a teacher online about an important assignment that is due in two days. So, without a mouse, or keyboard, I'm quite screwed considering I can no longer converse with him.

So what do I do? I pop out my 2215, PockeTop keyboard, and Linksys wifi card, hook up to my network, and it was like I had never left. All he saw was me sign off then sign right back on in an instant. I ended up finishing the conversation online with my teacher on my iPAQ, and managed to get all my desktop devices working within two or three reboots :lol:

[Jason Dunn]

That's a very cool story - nice to see the Pocket PC save the day. :D

[Vulcan]

Another reason not to use a USB keyboard.......

[PetiteFlower]

I was thinking the same thing :)

[IntegraPrelude98]

I am impressed your teacher was talking to you online!! I had a teacher this semester who said he just started to use email a couple years ago because the dean sent him an email and he never replied. He now says he uses email, but has never been to a website. 8O

[drop]

I am impressed your teacher was talking to you online!! I had a teacher this semester who said he just started to use email a couple years ago because the dean sent him an email and he never replied. He now says he uses email, but has never been to a website. 8O

NO... Seriously? How is that even possible? Never? The total determined lack of curiosity worries me. A teacher, no less. :idontthinkso:

[Falstaff]

Not many teachers really use the Internet much. As an example, my school just paid $50,000 for a webpage (I think the school was ripped off) with the centerpiece being a secure log-in section for faculty and students. Teachers can post assignments and course materials there. This has been running since August and there are maybe 2-4 teachers using it, only one uses it extensively. Non-technology teachers many times use technology in a limited fashion (some research, intra-school e-mail) or not at all. They just don't see the potential or don't want to bother spending the time when they already have been doing things their way.

[karen]

Not many teachers really use the Internet much. As an example, my school just paid $50,000 for a webpage (I think the school was ripped off) with the centerpiece being a secure log-in section for faculty and students. .

I'd say they didn't pay enough for a truly secure website. I wouldn't even get out of bed for less than that...Ok, I would, but I wouldn't even think of a project with that kind of funding problem.

[Vulcan]

Wake up and smell the coffee....The tech boom is long gone. The days of companies scrambling to get a web presence right away at any cost are gone. If you plan on making a living designing web pages your smaller customers by the rent.......

[PetiteFlower]

Now I graduated college in 1999, so it's been a little while, but even then a good half of my profs posted course information online. Some of them even had all the class handouts posted. The school was just starting to get on board with allowing course registration and grade retrieval online. I dated someone still in college a few months back and he was able to go on to his school's web page and get his homework, finals times, etc. Some classes had more info available then others but it seemed pretty great to me! I think the teachers are slowly coming on board with it; a few more years and they'll HAVE to.

I think it's definitely a help that the teachers no longer have to learn how to write a web page in order to have the class info up there, that was probably a big deterrent.