Then use something like Unlocker to delete them, and then kill the registry keys after a reboot.

Thats how I fixed it.

"22-year old student beats shit out of 65yr old ex-marine teacher"

yep. great headline for tomorrow's paper. thanks but no thanks....I showed a little respect for the man, even if he was wrong.

I would have, but I was more scared that he was some Cold War relic who was about to pull a knife on me. For his age, he's still built well too...like hits the gym everyday.

I had a weightlifting class and I would see him there too.

Ex-programming teacher who liked technology but refuses to use Macs (aka he's a windows-lover), so yea....he probably never even knew linux existed. He pretty much taught straight from the book and powerpoints, and has beeing going through the motions for the past 4 years or so since this class was given to him.

He's on his way out though, and so am I, so I could give two shits. I'll show the elder some respect, even if he's wrong, cause it would suck to get fired over it at this point if I were in his position.

And I only think he knew what photoshop was because a teacher pulled it up on a few of the computers at school to give him a demonstration. We have it on 5 of the lab computers.

Indeed. Maybe get a superbowl commercial talking about how linux/open source/open office/etc break you free from microsoft yet are still backwards compatible with them.

And then someone make Ubuntu idiot-proof edition, where, over time, Ubuntu slowly weans you day-by-day into how to do common linux operations. Over like 90 days, changing from an XP Desktop clone into a normal install of ubuntu.

Or we could go get chips and dip :)

Its a local community college near pittsburgh, and honestly this teacher is on his way out, and this is my last semester, so I could care less at this point. Gimme my diploma and let me go to Pitt lol.

And btw, THANK YOU for being the only person who didn't assume that I was talking about high school. Who in the hell has Networking in high school anyways? haha

The school is a good school, and at 3000$ a year there are MANY people taking their online courses.

You fail so much.

"The students are minors, a.k.a they have no rights at all."
-I'm 22

"You surely wouldn't argue against a parent's right to not confiscate their children's possessions."
-Well that's a failboat of an argument there if I EVER saw one.

"Teaching is hard enough, after all kids just want to have fun, and for most, fun isn't learning."
-I can't recall a computer class that was not fun. Even java lol.

"It is important for the power dynamic in a classroom that the teacher is largely unquestioned. We have no right to question a teacher's actions to maintain order in her own classroom."
-So you're the fucktard that agreed with the 90yr old history teacher when he said 'the earth is flat'! Hi Steve!

By the way, it was just an eee 901. O_O

Classic quote #2...."Theres no way a computer could be that small, unless you're some sort of hacker or spy".

The teacher's age is somewhere between 60-70...He's an old dude.

Even better:

I had a Networking teacher confiscate my laptop, which was running ubuntu, cause he thought I was running some hacked version of XP. A friggin computer teacher. Had to explain to the dean of students what linux was, provided several wiki pages, and pleaded my case before two department heads. Two weeks later, I get my laptop back and the teacher still thinks I'm doing illegal stuff on there. Classic quote from my interrogation.... "What is this Gimp? Is it some hacked Photoshop?"

So yes, they do exist. And they're growing more stupid by the moment.

Gundam 00's solution (orbital ring of solar collectors that powers 3 orbital elevators) seems slightly more feasible, but eh....that's probably just my anime-infested mind telling me that.

I mean, solar energy will always be there. And creating a planet-sized ring of solar collectors could probably power an elevator if you use the 2 cable idea (one for guidance, another for energy)...

Now if we could only harness trapars....

yep. deft was being daft. not deft-like at all.

VLC is fine if you don't care about preserving the quality of the format, or if you're too braindead to install proper codecs. Or if you want your integrated subtitles to look like shit, unless you run a nightly build with a few tweaks.

Honestly, I've found that Zoom Player's codec downloader and auto-configured silent install work the best for everyone, from the common person to the hardcore encoder to the obscure format enthusiast. Its a nice little stand-alone exe that, when run, will actually update your codecs too if you don't have the newest version.
http://www.mediafire.com/?emxigti2dwh

The hard-working people of the REAL open source codec scene (ie none of the ones you mentioned) are who I want to look at this.

The best part is that this is a real page...

What does it say on it..."Courtesy Page"?