On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
I don't think you'll find an off the shelf cable for doing
that. Most of them look like network devices to each of
the computers.
I couldn't really tell. I saw this
http://www.sewelld.com/UsbCable.asp
and assumed it was the USB equivalent of a null modem cable.
Maybe it's just ethernet over USB - it _is_ called a bridge.
Can't the teacher just take a floppy or a cd, or a USB
Storage device?
You'd think so. I've been dealing with this school for 5 yrs
and whatever I ask they say no. Now I just try to fit in
with their rules and don't think of normal ways of doing
things. The computers are setup according to rules set by
the administration and there's no changing anything, except
by them and then at no notice. The rules say you can use an
AlphaSmart and that's it. However it's worth trying again.
They can only say no.
One year the science teacher and I tried to follow the path
of the sun through the sky for a year at noon (the path is
an analemma) by marking the end of the shadow of a flagpole
on the blacktop of the playground (with a dot of
spraypaint). The kids would see this on the playground and
start asking questions about the earth's orbit, the seasons
etc. The school said "You're not allowed to desecrate school
property and if we'd wanted this in the curriculum we would
have had one painted for you already." We did it
surruptitiously last year, with black marker pen, which
looked like oil smudges. No-one noticed (including the kids)
but if you joined all the dots, you could see the analemma.
However during the summer, they re-blacked the blacktop
covering over a year's work. I'm doing it again this year in
a playing field, pushing golf tees into the ground under the
grass. No-one's noticed yet.
Joe
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