Who decides what data is old/unneeded and based on what ? Is there a way to make the definition of this process part of the initial configuration of the system ?
Is there a way to build the check for available disk space into the system itself, and when as it gets closer to the red zone, give an unintrusive "Warning: you are running low on disk space. Would you like to invoke the archival procedure now or you do it later?" - Of course, that's a last resort in case automating this is not possible - we all know the users are by now are trained to ignore any and all warnings.
But maybe with some variation of the above you could save a few hassles for the customers, and avoid a couple of support calls.
What about also explicitly educating the less-technical staff about the reasons for these measures ?
Otherwise it would get perceived as "yet another pointless policy IT is putting in to hinder my productivity".
Obviously they would still want web/twitter... so maybe put a few powerful machines running a bunch of vncservers, and allow the staff to do all the twittering/news browsing from there ?
So there's only one vendor that produces those systems with insecure default configuration ?
Otherwise - put the requirements for the default configuration into the RFP - and then if they don't comply to these requirements, then your $50000 support contract along with the $3m equipment purchase goes to the ones that do.
Don't give a man a fish. Don't teach a man to fish. Teach a man to learn how to fish.
First teach the man what the fish is - otherwise he might become a C-graded business major.
That's what history, literature and all of those "useless" baseline subjects early on are for, in my opinion.
I agree that learning on one's own is a very important skill. What I do not agree with is that it is in a college's responsibility (or capacity, for that matter) to get it into the heads of those who do not want to listen.
A month or two of the sufficiently exhausting and boring summer work at about the age of 14 might be much more convincing than these people in the college with their books. And would vividly portray the difference between the school life and real life.
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If those are such useful extensions, maybe they should charge a buck or two per month and avoid all of this circus ?
Who decides what data is old/unneeded and based on what ? Is there a way to make the definition of this process part of the initial configuration of the system ?
Is there a way to build the check for available disk space into the system itself, and when as it gets closer to the red zone, give an unintrusive "Warning: you are running low on disk space. Would you like to invoke the archival procedure now or you do it later?" - Of course, that's a last resort in case automating this is not possible - we all know the users are by now are trained to ignore any and all warnings.
But maybe with some variation of the above you could save a few hassles for the customers, and avoid a couple of support calls.
What about also explicitly educating the less-technical staff about the reasons for these measures ?
Otherwise it would get perceived as "yet another pointless policy IT is putting in to hinder my productivity".
Obviously they would still want web/twitter... so maybe put a few powerful machines running a bunch of vncservers, and allow the staff to do all the twittering/news browsing from there ?
So there's only one vendor that produces those systems with insecure default configuration ?
Otherwise - put the requirements for the default configuration into the RFP - and then if they don't comply to these requirements, then your $50000 support contract along with the $3m equipment purchase goes to the ones that do.
Don't give a man a fish. Don't teach a man to fish. Teach a man to learn how to fish.
First teach the man what the fish is - otherwise he might become a C-graded business major.
That's what history, literature and all of those "useless" baseline subjects early on are for, in my opinion.
I agree that learning on one's own is a very important skill. What I do not agree with is that it is in a college's responsibility (or capacity, for that matter) to get it into the heads of those who do not want to listen.
A month or two of the sufficiently exhausting and boring summer work at about the age of 14 might be much more convincing than these people in the college with their books. And would vividly portray the difference between the school life and real life.