Saturday, February 07, 2009

Proxy Sites

Now,

Basically at my place of work we are blocked from using a number of things. We can't use any video streaming or audio streaming sites of any kind (exp. google video). I understand why this is; we have all staff and all the students in grade 6, 10-12 with laptops and we have our computer labs as well as our computers on wheels (COWS). If we were all streaming stuff our network would be HELLA SLOW and useless. Now because of course I think the above rule must not apply to me specifically; I was using a proxy site to bypass said issue. That was until I was caught by our super stealth IT department.

A few nights ago my colleagues were complaining that they couldn't access anything good. This is when I pipe in my opinions about why this is and then I mention my above incident involving Proxy's and the IT department, but there is now a new site that they can use to access the above things.

If you happen to not know anything about IT related issues or even what IT stands for. The best way to handle this situation would be to:

A) Make fun of the person for knowing about some very basic things on the computer, even if they are trying to help you because it makes you feel cool, even if you are not.
B) Smile and Nod
C) Ask for more information about how you can better surf at work
D) Stare at them blankly, pretend to be interested, all the while dreaming about the shopping trip you are going on tomorrow and the deals you will get.

B and D are the most polite
C might be pushing it
But it certainally is not "A"

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