SiteKiosk at Navy Pier
Alright. I am currently on this kiosk (owned by the wonderfull Ice Creme people Haagen-Dazs, damn germans) at Navy Pier that is letting me access the internet. Of course, the first thing I did was check my email. The second thing I did was try to figure out how to extend my time past the 30 minutes I bought (for $4 I might add, thats $12/hour for those of you less inclined with the Math)
This machine runs SiteKiosk, which is essentialy Windows with just about every feature you could think of blocked. It blocks out all the keys that would let me access a menu, and when I did manage to get access to a disk menu by loading a .pdf document and trying to save it to disk, it popped up with the “This Function has been Blocked” window. Bah!
So I tried crashing IE using one of those “Crash IE” sites you can find on Google. All it would do is reset the terminal right back to where it was and pop up Norton Antivirus with a warning that the Trojan “Crash IE” had tried to execute. God damnit! Then when I try to go into the Norton “Help” menu I am stuck again with that damn “This function has been blocked.” Ahhh!!!
I bought a ticket to this 75 minute long Chicago Architectural tour. Well, I didn’t buy it, Loyola Bought it with the bank’s money that I will be repaying for the next thirty years. Yet I am seriously considering coming back here with more money trying to get this thing to let me access something more than this rebranded IE. God damn germans, with their secure terminals.
