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"General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 01:19
by AgeNt_
today i have to get my laptop inspected by my college im going to and they have to check for illegal software. so just a general warning for you people who havn't made it there yet be warned if you decide to get your own laptop. this hit me today so i have to take all it off. please learn from this, thanks.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 02:21
by captainAngry
ROFL. At my school everyone had to rent a laptop from the school and we all had tons of illigal shit on there.
How would they know if something is illigal or legit? The answer? They have no way of knowing.
The only stuff you would have to worry about is maybe a torrent program (or limewire if you are gypsy). If you have cracked software like an entire OS or a copy of photoshop you downloaded, they would have no way of knowing if it was legit or not.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 03:07
by AgeNt_
they want the proof of purchase and the cd that came with it. they require you to not have vista home and charge you to replace it with office and they said it would have to delete it all. which im not doing so im going to upgrade it to ultimate because i dont want to lose all my files!
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 04:19
by Divine Fate
If I was you, I'd find a better college. Or just dual boot an accepted OS on there and run it like it's clean
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Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 04:19
by Liquid Death
I'd just hand them an old one that I no longer use.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 07:04
by Noodlefoo
Which college? I'm going to UT Austin in August and with as many people are there I don't know if it would be possible at certain schools to do it for everyone, at least a decent job of looking for the illegal files.
And what could they do to tell if you are lying if you just said you don't have one and take it with you anyway?
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 07:33
by BigJohn 308
AgeNt_ wrote:today i have to get my laptop inspected by my college im going to and they have to check for illegal software.
WTF???!
Tell them the reason you want a higher education is because you want to be a lawyer who specializes in
4th Amendment cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... _of_Rights
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 08:14
by giggles
thats absolutely ridiculous.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 08:33
by genie
If any "higher up" at my college asked to see my laptop to check for illegal software, I'd laugh, and walk away.
Screw that.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 07 Jul 2009, 08:49
by Sastora
Is it a private college?
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 08 Jul 2009, 05:10
by PhrozenFlame
Sastora wrote:Is it a private college?
If it was that'd be slightly understandable but still isn't that invasion of privacy? I'd do the same thing Liquid would but question why I still have it...
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 08 Jul 2009, 10:01
by captainAngry
Sastora wrote:Is it a private college?
I went to a private collage and had a laptop provided by my collage filled with illegal software.
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 08 Jul 2009, 05:47
by AgeNt_
im taking game design at brown college of mendota heights , there you have to have a laptop that meets minimum requirments of theres, so i met the requirments but i have to upgrade my OS from home premium to ultimate which is nice because my windows is screwed up on here. fuckin put me down 170$
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 11:39
by arkawn
tel dem u use lunix lik an internet h4x0r and dey ned 2 bun off
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 14 Jul 2009, 12:00
by g_e_oos
Not being able to have illegal software is one thing. having to upgrade your OS? That is complete bull crap!
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 04:03
by AgeNt_
there program that they use i guess doesnt accept any version of vista home and they said the developer doesnt want you using 7, i asked today. plus they said "since windows 7 isnt out yet you cant get a key and proof of purchase so i guess its also another no"
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 15 Jul 2009, 09:28
by D34THSPAWN
all i have to say is this is bs...they cant do that to you...legally they cannot do that
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 16 Jul 2009, 01:03
by AgeNt_
lol if i owned a college all i would use is illegal pirated software. even though people pay for it i would make enough money is if i did get sued i could pay them back
Re: "General Warning" for people heading to college
Posted: 20 Jul 2009, 01:47
by AgeNt_
just an update, i got my ultimate a few says back and it had 32-bit on it, but i needed 64-bit. so i ordered new cd's and i finally got them and it had me have to reinstall everything and i was like WHOW NOT GOING THAT ROUTE. so i contacted microsoft and they said the laptop i got from the company installed a corrupt version of windows on it and thats why it isnt letting me progress. so i have to backup all my stuff on my old HDD (thankfully i still have it) and reinstall and port it back.
gah pissing me off