1337 haxxor June 18, 2008

Some categories: geek. Some tags: , . And exactly 5 rambling responses.

That’s what I am! Just managed to work out how to (finally) get .exe files running on the college network. Annoyingly, Firefox (much wanted, because the “real” option is IE7), has to be reinstalled every time, and it also involves the physical removal of the network cable (and replacement). Here’s what I did:

  1. Login as usual
  2. As “personal settings” are loading, yank the network cable
  3. WIndows loads as normal, but no network drives appear (also, C:/ drive is not there, as normal [we're not allowed it!])
  4. However, because normally My Documents links to the file on the network drive, but this time there is no network drive, it gives a form of acess to the C:/ drive, where there is no .exe file ban (like the network drives)
  5. Plug network cable back in, connect, download Firefox, install in My Docs and go!

An annoying proceedure, but when you get an entire moning with -not one- lesson, you have to think of something!