[nukem]

Well my team and I have been discussing this a lot. And we have taken in all of your considerations. Right now I am using my own IBM Thinkpad T40 running Gentoo Linux but as it is the school dosnt really like that being in the building, im not allowed to connect to the internet or even have the wireless on(and yes it does come on when I boot it up). Its pretty hard doing this since we have at least two new programmers I need to train and one laptop. I read in one of the post someone said "as long as you have notepad" well I looked and its blocked! I also recently heard a story from a student on student console who asked the tech department to install a copy of some software that the student console was going to buy. They refused because "the school needs a school license" when he asked about an open source solution they said "all open source software have security volubilities and we would still need a site license"(I find this ironic because the latest versions of Novell which they are running use SUSE Linux) Obviously these people dont have a clue. Our last shot is that the school may have some old dells and we are requesting them but if we cannt get those im not sure how strong our programming is going to be this year. No one else has a laptop and the team wants the money for parts, food, travel, not really for programming.