Printers, oy!

I went back to Unaka to fix broken computers. I fixed two that were loaded down with an ass-load of junk. I'm afraid to run Ad-Aware on them. I need to grab the IE 5.5 installer off my drive and put it on two others because they're still running Win95 and I don't feel like formatting and putting Win98 on them. After that, I installed a networked printer on a machine. I went down the hall to fix another printer that was just being funny. It's an HP and it refuses to print because the color cartridge is virtually empty, yet I set it to black and white only. I returned to the library where a printer wasn't working because someone turned off the machine it was connected to. On yet another machine, someone had turned off the printing of images from websites. I tried to fix it, but, by the time I had determined that to be the problem, the printer was printing random characters. Prior to it printing random characters, which from my experience also means a fucked up driver, it spit out a blank page even, which was a WTF? moment.

On the way to my English class, I suddenly thought of how the proxy for the public schools in Tennessee should work. The way it works now, the proxy blocks things like Google Groups, VCL, Geocities (no complaint there, really), LJ, and other things like that. It also blocks porn and stuff like that. It will occasionally block sites that shouldn't be. The way I see it, the proxy should scan the text of the page and block it based on the number of instances of "banned" words, i.e. sex, cunt, penis, etc. Image intensive sites would be flagged and a human would actually view the site and block/not block it. With sites such as LJ, it would scan each user individually. It would, of course, have a list of sites to always block.

I'll never know why I thought that up.