[Gllug] Schools Software

[Aaron Trevena]

On 08/04/2008, Matt Blissett <matt at blissett.me.uk> wrote:
> John Winters wrote:
>
>  > Agree with all the rest, but cordless keyboards and mice are pretty much
>  > a no-no in classrooms because they will migrate around the room at a
>  > ridiculous rate.
>
>
> I remember (back in the 90s) my dad supergluing the plastic latches that
>  kept the balls in the mice to stop the balls from being nicked.  Wireless
>  mice wouldn't have lasted two lessons.
>
>  (And I remember people swapping the keyboards and/or mice and/or monitors of
>  adjacent PCs. "Sir, why's my mouse moving on its own?" "Sir, I'm moving the
>  mouse but nothing's happening!")

I remember sun terminals at uni having that problem, but much more
interestingly you could ftp audio files direct to each ones speakers,
or run xeyes, etc on each persons X server. Of course that stopped
after the lecturers and security guards got fed up with an empty room
of terminals all screaming or making "error" noises.

A.

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