Errr...?
15 years ago
So, I went on Spring Break....several weeks ago. When I came back, my campus' internet wouldn't allow me on. My help desk told me this was the first computer with this sort of error they gave back that they couldn't fix. So after weeks and weeks of trying to figure it out, they just said "screw it" and let me bypass the normal security protocols. It's still under the normal blocks/restrictions/etc, but now I don't have to install their cruddy software. Yay~
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*giggle*
Glad to hear you got it working there again, even if it was through round-about methods. And sounds like you got the better part of the deal anyway. No "nanny software" on your machine sounds like a good thing to wuff.