My bad :p Hard to get on bos at work sometimes! Everything thats been said is right. All courses that you do as part of your degree, electives or not will count towards your WAM.
Your WAM is weighted by the units of credits its worth, and not by level. So a 3uoc gen ed is only worth half was...
In 1811 you only ever use Excel and Access, there's no point teaching you guys linux at all, so in the first lab you're told you change your default session to WinXP.
And even then, you'd be surprised at the amount of people that fail miserably to follow the instructions to change the default...
No, the USB-to-Ethernet adapter only turns a USB port into an ethernet port if your computer doesn't have one, its doesn't turn a hard disk into networked file server.
I use it all the time - very few problems.
Get drive thru, pop online with eeepc in the parking lot and enter the code from for the CRV competition straight away :p
Most newer network cards support something called Wake On LAN (WOL). The network card isn't actually completely powered off, but if it receives a special packet it can power on the computer.
The other option is to set up a new computer which can act as your file server, and you can have your...
Re: Most Useful/Useless course at UNSW
I really have to pick more than one in each case....
Useful: COMP3421, 9018, 9321, 9322, 9517
Best: COMP1711/1721, 2021, 3211, 3421, 9018, 4411
Worst: Circuits and systems (ELEC2031), Discrete
bwhaha
Because in the week 1 lab they assume everyone totally sucks and wanted everyone managed to set up their account without doing real work (surprising how many can't set up their account) - but it always backfires.
If the father's computer is configured to be a gateway then the other computers can access the internet via the 56k modem. But if you're talking about a plain textbook scenario then no they other 3 nodes won't have access.
If the laptop isn't connected to anything then it can't communicate with...