If the labs as a rewriteable CDROM (most do nowadays)
grab yourself a rewriteable and use windows to save the file to CD ... then run from that
i remember doing that back when i was at college, they didn't like it cause i'd download like 100Mb mods for Quake rather than research stuff.
But i'm not extirely sure what would count as research - i mean not alot of websites of info that are that large
I remember one time i downloaded the whole of polycounts models for Quake2 in an hour - then went into another one of the rooms where we'd installed Quake2 over the network and updated them all hehee
they hated me there i swear, Quake2 on the lower room machines - Quake on the CAD machines and GTA on the Powerpoint machines
whatever room we were all in we'd have some game to play when we got bored, made it even funnier was some of the tutors were morons and thought they were screensavers
some places have Zip Disk drives, i noticed when i was at Digipen and C-Sun that alot of thier computers has those as well.
Anything that can handle about 10mb should be oki for downloading, cause it'll bypass any writing protection cause its a windows operation
that said i'm surprised you don't have a HDD space for whatever you want ... i mean even in college i had a 150Mb drive on the network i could place everything i wanted, as long as i wiped it before Friday cause thats when they searched them for *ahembadsoftwareahem*
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