Cyberoam-our insti firewall which monitors all our activities on net whether be it from the college or the hostel. It restricts everything-you name it. It not only monitors how many hours we use the net per week-fucks you if you use more than 30 hours a week-but also blocks nearly 75% of the websites on the web. No not only social networking websites like orkut or websites with objectionable contents but also rapid share or and P2P.
I can understand that P2P can be used for cyber crime but then blocking it means you are not allowed to download ebooks which are either not easily available or else too costly for any student to buy but easily available. i dont know whether the ebooks from rapidshare are legal or not but does it make any difference if we are using that for learning-I mean who doesnt. Cyber crime in India is so prevailing and open that it is almost impossible to curb it.Just look at this- how many of home users have a registered version of Windows?
Today I was trying to download a Data Structure book on Java...so that I can finally study Data Structures...though we had the subject last sem,the prof was crap and we didnt learn anything-we expect one or two people who were sincere enough! But to my surprise and quite to my annoyance I was forbidden to do so.I always thought that an institute is a place where student advancement is placed before everything else but here the processes being in their right place is paid more attention.If I start writing about the non-desirable things that happen here to curb students' enthu then probably I will eat away all the space available on the Web.
I just hope that someone from the administration sees this post and makes necessary and ofcourse desirable changes to the existing firewall-I dont know but I may be rustricated if someone's reads this and oh yeah!punsihing students for little reasons is not alien to our insti...
Till it gets fixed,rock on guys...the insti itself doent want we should study so what's the fuck if we dont?
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