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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Had a 6th former come into our office this morning to convert some work from Office 2007 to 2003 (we're still running 2003 at school, few of the kids have noticed this yet). He's quite a nice kid, so we were chatting away when he said that he'd opened an email from someone, and now Norton keeps blocking him sending emails entitled "Enlarge your penis". He'd been into his local independant PC place, and they'd told him that the *only* way to fix it would be to format the drive (and they told him he wouldn't be able to back anything up either), and that they'd charge him £80 for doing it.

He left my office with addresses for AdAware and AVG, and instructions to remove Norton. And a recommendation to avoid that particular PC store (it's one I know well. At one point they knew their stuff. It seems they're employing PC World rejects now).

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[museology.livejournal.com]

Computer services at my college told a professor that she couldn't have a printer because other classes use that classroom, too, and if they lent out ONE printer, they'd have to lend out 100 (one for each class), and they couldn't afford to do that.

Some "tech" people need to be burned. :\

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, there's not even *any* sense in that :(

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Man, that is so much fail.

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering why he wanted to send emails entitled "Enlarge your penis", though.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should've phrased that better. It isn't intentional :)

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see what you mean now. :)

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

"6'th Former"... is this elementary school, post-doctorate, tech school....???

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

British High School...6th formers are 17/18 year olds :)

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

*ahem* - *English* high school...

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that too :p

[stimpy.livejournal.com]

age 16+ elective education in the UK.

At 16 you have taken your exams and can be done with school and enter the workforce. Otherwise you can choose to take 2 years more schooling of a few subjects in depth but without the cost of college (I took maths, physics, and chemistry).

You usually do not have to wear a uniform anymore if you did before, and you have a few classes a week instead of five full days.

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

I run an intranet and should have an email permanently on hand saying "shun Norton, download AVG,KTHXBY."
Norton motorbikes on the other hand are super cool.