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Apple Tests Well in Education

Posted by pudge on from the gaining-market-share-good dept.

wongaboo writes "Business Week has some interesting insights into Apples in schools. I remember when I was in K-6 an Apple was about the only computer you could find. Then in high school there were some PC's around but it was still mostly Apple. In college is was just the reverse: all PC's and no Apples. Now they are giving kids in high school a laptop when they show up; will it be an Apple? Either way, it makes me want to be a kid again."

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  1. Re:Around here.. by pvt_medic · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember in high school all the student computers were Macs, all the administrative computers were PCs. A couple of the students who complained about the enequalness of this were allowed to help out the computer dept with keeping computers running. The arguments ended quite quickly when they saw how easier it was to maintain the macs despite the heavy abuse they took from students.

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  2. Open Source K-6 Texts by G4from128k · · Score: 2, Informative

    Schools could make better use of their investment in computers by using open-source textbooks or a wiki-like curriculum content system. Seems like a bunch of teachers could put together a great set of tools (like these college calculus texts) and eliminate the cost of paper textbooks.

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  3. Re:NYC public schools and Microsoft by zenwaves · · Score: 2, Informative

    When did this occur? I did have to convince people, but I managed to have my school's lab upgraded to Macs last February. http://schools.nycenet.edu/region3/ps133/pages/com puterlab.html Now if HP would just release RIP software for my Designjet . . . Jon

  4. Re:My experience in an Apple laptop high school pr by Graymalkin · · Score: 2, Informative

    AFAIK Panther doesn't have single file encryption like OS9 did. You can however make an encrypted disk image with Disk Utility and stick sensitive files inside of that. File Vault is nice and all but it encrypts your entire home directory. I much prefer the encrypted directories on Windows 2000/XP. Simulating that feature on Panther isn't too difficult.

    Make an encrypted disk image of whatever size you'd like and keep it in your home directory. Set the permissions to 700. Mount the image and make an alias to it. From here you've two two options with different levels of security. The first is to make the disk image a login item. If you do this whenever you log in the image will be mounted and you can put files on it until you're blue in the face or it runs out of space. When you mount it you'll be prompted for your password, you can store the password in the keychain so it doesn't prompt you but that isn't very secure. The second option is to not make the disk image a start up item. Whenever you go to save something you the alias you created in your home directory and the image isn't mounted it will mount and prompt you for your password. Voila encrypted directory. For further coolness replace your Documents folder with alias to the image. encrypted Documents folder.

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  5. Re:Around here.. by tverbeek · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, much of OS X is open-source (it's called Darwin)... especially the most security-vulnerable parts: those exposed to the network.

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