Changes

Microsoft Windows allows users to define network "shares" which Williams student use to make their pictures, documents, music, and movies public. Back in the old days of 2002, [[WSO ]] set up a service called [[Phynd]]. This was a tool that efficiently indexed and searched a Windows network using only Windows networking protocols. It lasted about three months before the recording industry sued another college campus and WSO took it down as an act of self-preservation.

Luckily, as mentioned above, Phynd used only defaul default Windows networking protocols. The upshot is that you can ''still'' search the Williams network for media. Here's how:

Note that this search is highly inefficient and will take a long time. You might want to start it up before class on Friday so that your computer generates a list of music/movies for the weekend that will be ready when you return. A good tip is to remember the name of the computer where you find a lot of stuff. You can access computers on the network by name by opening My Computer and typing ''\\computername'' in the Address Bar. It's also possible to [[How to connect to a network PC from an Apple|connect to a PC from a Mac]].