Archive for the ‘Acedemic Problems’ Category

BBC Micro

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Dear baldmonkey,
I run several LANs with me as the administrator and the students and staff as restricted users. All machines are running either Windows 2000 or XP.
As part of the students’ I.T courses they need to demonstrate being able to change the system time, however restricted users cannot do this - only administrators. I’ve tried tweaking every setting in Active Directory but to no avail.
Is there away of allowing restricted users to do this, as I don’t want the students to have admin rights?
Mark

I used to like that Turtle game. That was good. It was like etch-a-sketch. But etch-a-sketch is shit because it doesn’t use a computer. I tell you what is good; Lego. Some people moan about how the pieces are all too specialised these days. They prefer the old days when there were only a few different bricks and you had to work with those. Not me. I fucking love Lego. The more different bricks they have, the better. I especially like Star Wars Lego.
If we examine your problem more closely, you want some students to do something without the risk of them being pricks. Students are pricks. Whiny, know-it-all pricks who know nothing. They are easy to mug though and are often stupid enough to carry lots of cash and iPods.
The chances are none of them will need to change time in real life. I wouldn’t worry about it. Tell them to just do it in Notepad.

Words

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Dear baldmonkey,
Is there a word that sufficiently describes doing or saying anything simply because you want to regardless of how charitable or selfish the act is/might seem?

It’s difficult to think of any act which would fall into this category. I’d say amoral. Or something like that. Either way, you are a moron for getting hung up on such an issue. Some people have real problems, you know. Like Jim Davidson. People like you are worse than cancer. I say this regardless of how charitable or selfish it might seem.

Exams

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Dear baldmonkey,
I have a three hour english literature exam tomorrow and am scared. What shall I do, life has no meaning and my insides seem to have frozen. Sometimes I get so tired that i can not even think properly and the cloud of responsibilty weighs heavy on my mind.
Yours
Richard

Chill the fuck out; baldmonkey is here with his top three relaxing in exams tips.

  1. Imagine everyone naked. Especially a young Felicity Kendall. Then imagine licking chocolate spread off her vagina. Nice isn’t it? Now, reach down and unbutton your fly. Once you have splattered the underside of the desk you are free to dance.
  2. Inject heroin. Invigilators may notice though. Make sure you have enough to go round.
  3. Send a mannequin in instead of you. Using mobile phones, send him the answers. Then, using remote control robotic arms, make him write the answers on the paper. In blood. And oil.