<p>umm you guys are silly... you request one, of course a request from a non @mit address is likely to be denied... :-P</p>
<p>there ya go, request away </p>
<p>oh and it really can be tricky to become an MIT affiliate if you're not going about in some standard way seeing as it gives you all the stuff I already mentioned, and the MIT Athena cluster combinations, ect, but if you can become an affiliate, good for you :-)</p>