there are times in life I wish I had mod points and this is one of them.
I'm a big fan of the Russian culture, I find it facinating but the Russian government IMO just can't be trusted. Russia is a country inundated with organized crime and instead of stomping it out the Russian leaders ride the mafia all the way to power. It's sad to see such potential go to waste. During the space race Russia truly did innovate in the beginning giving us yanks one hell of a run for our money until they just couldn't keep up and had to start stealing technology from the US. Unfortunately for the former USSR communism is fundamentally flawed.
First set up a consistent environment, it will make her life so much easier.
Build a "perfect image" sit down at a computer and build the perfect computer image, then deploy it environment consistence is key in my experience.
migrate everything to portable profiles, and get the servers to back it up, my recommendations is sun hardware, you can't beat their $750 servers, get 750gig SATA drives, a couple of those in a master slave environment and you'll be set, I hate to say it, but in my experience if you don't have a lot of Linux knowledge stick with MSFT, Get paper certified in at least MCSE stuff, and if she can at least a CCNA, good to have an understanding on what the hell your doing, am I right? The ONLY reason I reccomend the msft route is that it is much easier for a district to find a microsoft lacky then a *nix geek willing to work for school district pay.
Set up an active directory, makes deploying software, patches and policies a breeze. Give every student their own access and teach responsible "corporate computer use" try and engage students and staff, and educate them on the differences between their home computers and using computers in a 'business' environment, why the global profile policies are good practice, the benefits to the school, and why it will make their lives easier. Make sure they understand that their activity is recorded and monitored and explain why...
Use deep freeze and get the management console, for anti-virus (which you basically don't need w/ df but it is always good to have anyways just so the terminals don't get hosed...) this will also prevent the server(s) from becoming compromised should a nasty worm manage to get on a terminal and propagate. as always RUN ANTI-VIRUS ON THE SERVERS CONSTANTLY!!!, don't allow students to use IE (even V7) push alternative browsers, I deploy firefox w/ adblock plus and adblock filterset G...
lock down the terminals, they don't need to boot from floppy or flash drive or CD rom, so disable it in the bios and set the bios password, Deep Freeze can be defeated if you boot in to another OS from an external device (such as the above mentioned) and I always found it fun to confuse the IT guys on how I did it...don't give any kids the bios password, more than likely it won't ever change so make it hard, and don't give it out, re-passwording a labs bios is a PITA.
Make sure the district understands IT needs a budget too, shit breaks, upgrades are needed,
back up your shit, seriously it is a pain in the ass to set up the first time, why would you ever want to do it again, what I did was set up a main bank of servers, mirrored them to a hot standby set, did a full backup of both once a week and sent it to tape once a month.
Use students wisely, I'm sure there are a number of students in the school who would love nothing more then to get their hands in the mix, but do so with caution as much as they are helpful, and in many cases life-saving from the onslaught of medial work that you now don't have to do, never give them administrative rights or any rights to any other students profiles/folders, and monitor their behavior, they can just as easily abuse their newfound powers and stick you in one hell of a bind.
other than that, good luck...
I would find such a device highly useful. I am one of many people who find it hard to differentiate sarcasm from strait forward conver...wait a minute...
Some people just don't like to be frisked every time they want to download or install a piece of software. For me it is the equivalent of getting a cavity search every time I go to the airport. I really just don't enjoy my holes being probed at every turn. My copies of XP are valid and I could really do without WGA.
I'm personally a fan of NameCheap, they use geotrust, my suggestion is to go with geotrust, I haven't had any problems with them but I do register the cert with a custom e-mail address like ssl@companyname.com that way if it is a spam target it's isolated.
holy shit, you have to be kidding me.
Ours was a little more complicated but still lacking in the security department, Our Schools use SASI (Student Administration Student Information) corny name for a peice of shit software package. It stores all of it's files in a "proprietary flat database" aka a whole bunch of plain text files, when you want info it goes to it's index and pulls that text file with whatever you wanted in it, so changing a grade was getting in to the SASI server, not a hard feat seeing it was on an NT4 box running an ancient version of novell, did I fail to mention they left the password post-it'ed on the screen, held on with tape for "extra" security? yeah, that bad. They've fixed most of those problems, they now lock the door to the room the server sits in, nothing the student body cards can't get passed but it's a start, and we get A's for effort around here.
but shit, your school sounds even worse, probably not as expensive as SASI, but still, they could save a few bucks on MSFT licences by upgrading to linux and open office, and hell it might even improve their security.
That is some monopolistic bullshit right there. strait up. wow, that is low, really fucking low. Is Intel really that scared now of AMD? Is AMD's product that much more of a solid platform that they have to cripple software to make their chips win? that is fucking sick.
that is probably the most insightful thing I have ever read in my life. I couldn't have put it better or even thought it through as throulghly as that paragraph. props man, mad props. It seems that if they are putting in so much investment in to the global network and complaining of costs, then they haven't set their rates appropriately and need to raise them. hey networks don't run themselves, we think "network, I have one in my house and my switch / modem / router has been running perfectly since, when you don't consider the vast and expansive network outside of your modem, that has to be supported constantly.
Sorry, I don't generally proof comments I make on other sites, and I will openly admit my spelling aer teh suxorz. I do try, and I do have my work edited before I publish on my site.
When the story first broke that apple was sueing rumor sites I withheld judgement, you see I run a review site, I understand the dynamics of the tech industry and the vital role of a journalist, I also understand the letters NDA, and what they mean to a company, and what they mean to me when I sign one. I do feel that as a journalist I have protections given to me by the US constitution protecting me and everyone for that matter from persecution and prosocution as a result of what I write.
That being said it also needs to be aknowlaged that there have to be some checks and balances in the system that allow companies to protect information that if released early could damage the company. We need to recognize that we do have great freedoms and powers in the press but that we need to make sure we use those powers and freedoms responsibly, for example not outing a CIA agent that isn't doing anything more then her job, that isn't say stealing from the Repbulican National Convention headquarters, but is making our country a safer place. You know that thing we refer to as common sense.
We as a society also need to infer and compel in to people that when they make a resonable agreement with someone be it a company or other individual or institution, they need to be held to that agreement, meaning if employee's of apple did disclose information about an upcomming product and had signed an NDA, and the upcomming product was not part of a large and publicly damaging scandal they had no right to reveal that information to a third party, and thusly the third party doesn't have the right (even under freedom of the press / speech) to reveal that information to the public.
At what point do we get off the high road and start fighting a real fight against spammers crackers hackers virus writers and other unethical people. I think that it is time that we get down and start fighting at their level start using stronger preemptive tactics start shutting down their bot networks And start tracking the problem to its source and rooting it out. I think we can accomplish this by using distributed computing to scan networks a large for vulnerabilities Start using software to shut down these networks used for these activities.
Network operators need to get involved in recognizing the problem and participate in a solution
Uses a deep secure their systems from these types of attacks and participate in large scale network scans using their home personal computer in a large distributed network of computers
There needs to be a central resource available to everybody to combat these issues to filter ranges of addresses and notify those who are unknowingly involved In these negative activities.
I think that we need to enact legislation that allows us to do this legally.
its not possible for the LTSP nodes to become infected with anything, they are a slave to the server. the hardware is cheap and if your not an idiot your computers are on surge supression.
IMO the TCO of a 4 head system is still greater then an LTSP deployment, if one 4 head machine goes down you loose 4 workstations, costing time and money, you can use antiquated technology with LTSP, have functional workstations for probably no more then 75 to 150 bucks and beable to loose a machine or two without a derastic impact on the system.
As more cell phones become web enabled there will be a push for web developers to design pages that cater to those consumers. how we will do that is any body's guess however I think that a lot of browser detection with a dynamic back end will be popular. Opera has a great cell browser that does a wonderful job of making most pages that I visit small screen compatible. but I think that users will push for more as the technology develops.
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so it's more like an iPhone in a big orange metal box? with accelerometers and shit?
If I had mod points I was going to mod the parent up, I agree w/ what he said.
there are times in life I wish I had mod points and this is one of them. I'm a big fan of the Russian culture, I find it facinating but the Russian government IMO just can't be trusted. Russia is a country inundated with organized crime and instead of stomping it out the Russian leaders ride the mafia all the way to power. It's sad to see such potential go to waste. During the space race Russia truly did innovate in the beginning giving us yanks one hell of a run for our money until they just couldn't keep up and had to start stealing technology from the US. Unfortunately for the former USSR communism is fundamentally flawed.
First set up a consistent environment, it will make her life so much easier. Build a "perfect image" sit down at a computer and build the perfect computer image, then deploy it environment consistence is key in my experience. migrate everything to portable profiles, and get the servers to back it up, my recommendations is sun hardware, you can't beat their $750 servers, get 750gig SATA drives, a couple of those in a master slave environment and you'll be set, I hate to say it, but in my experience if you don't have a lot of Linux knowledge stick with MSFT, Get paper certified in at least MCSE stuff, and if she can at least a CCNA, good to have an understanding on what the hell your doing, am I right? The ONLY reason I reccomend the msft route is that it is much easier for a district to find a microsoft lacky then a *nix geek willing to work for school district pay. Set up an active directory, makes deploying software, patches and policies a breeze. Give every student their own access and teach responsible "corporate computer use" try and engage students and staff, and educate them on the differences between their home computers and using computers in a 'business' environment, why the global profile policies are good practice, the benefits to the school, and why it will make their lives easier. Make sure they understand that their activity is recorded and monitored and explain why... Use deep freeze and get the management console, for anti-virus (which you basically don't need w/ df but it is always good to have anyways just so the terminals don't get hosed...) this will also prevent the server(s) from becoming compromised should a nasty worm manage to get on a terminal and propagate. as always RUN ANTI-VIRUS ON THE SERVERS CONSTANTLY!!!, don't allow students to use IE (even V7) push alternative browsers, I deploy firefox w/ adblock plus and adblock filterset G... lock down the terminals, they don't need to boot from floppy or flash drive or CD rom, so disable it in the bios and set the bios password, Deep Freeze can be defeated if you boot in to another OS from an external device (such as the above mentioned) and I always found it fun to confuse the IT guys on how I did it...don't give any kids the bios password, more than likely it won't ever change so make it hard, and don't give it out, re-passwording a labs bios is a PITA. Make sure the district understands IT needs a budget too, shit breaks, upgrades are needed, back up your shit, seriously it is a pain in the ass to set up the first time, why would you ever want to do it again, what I did was set up a main bank of servers, mirrored them to a hot standby set, did a full backup of both once a week and sent it to tape once a month. Use students wisely, I'm sure there are a number of students in the school who would love nothing more then to get their hands in the mix, but do so with caution as much as they are helpful, and in many cases life-saving from the onslaught of medial work that you now don't have to do, never give them administrative rights or any rights to any other students profiles/folders, and monitor their behavior, they can just as easily abuse their newfound powers and stick you in one hell of a bind. other than that, good luck...
Hey, if you want accuracy go to a shooting range for the blind!
I would find such a device highly useful. I am one of many people who find it hard to differentiate sarcasm from strait forward conver...wait a minute...
Man I wish I had mod points right now, this comment is so spot on it's funny. bravo analogy man.
Some people just don't like to be frisked every time they want to download or install a piece of software. For me it is the equivalent of getting a cavity search every time I go to the airport. I really just don't enjoy my holes being probed at every turn. My copies of XP are valid and I could really do without WGA.
I'm personally a fan of NameCheap, they use geotrust, my suggestion is to go with geotrust, I haven't had any problems with them but I do register the cert with a custom e-mail address like ssl@companyname.com that way if it is a spam target it's isolated.
I am Tim Thorpe, I am also narzy I wrote the article on dailytech.com and submitted it to /.
wow, you just listed off everything most of this community is aginst...congrats pauco.
holy shit, you have to be kidding me. Ours was a little more complicated but still lacking in the security department, Our Schools use SASI (Student Administration Student Information) corny name for a peice of shit software package. It stores all of it's files in a "proprietary flat database" aka a whole bunch of plain text files, when you want info it goes to it's index and pulls that text file with whatever you wanted in it, so changing a grade was getting in to the SASI server, not a hard feat seeing it was on an NT4 box running an ancient version of novell, did I fail to mention they left the password post-it'ed on the screen, held on with tape for "extra" security? yeah, that bad. They've fixed most of those problems, they now lock the door to the room the server sits in, nothing the student body cards can't get passed but it's a start, and we get A's for effort around here. but shit, your school sounds even worse, probably not as expensive as SASI, but still, they could save a few bucks on MSFT licences by upgrading to linux and open office, and hell it might even improve their security.
That is some monopolistic bullshit right there. strait up. wow, that is low, really fucking low. Is Intel really that scared now of AMD? Is AMD's product that much more of a solid platform that they have to cripple software to make their chips win? that is fucking sick.
that is probably the most insightful thing I have ever read in my life. I couldn't have put it better or even thought it through as throulghly as that paragraph. props man, mad props. It seems that if they are putting in so much investment in to the global network and complaining of costs, then they haven't set their rates appropriately and need to raise them. hey networks don't run themselves, we think "network, I have one in my house and my switch / modem / router has been running perfectly since, when you don't consider the vast and expansive network outside of your modem, that has to be supported constantly.
Um dude I'm going to have to disagree on that one, Plone is on the Zope platform and IMO one of the best CMS out there.
"need to infer and compel in to people"
You missed this wonderful construction. Sounds like a self-proclaimed "jurnallist" to me.
I do have to say, one of my finer moments, whoops. I promise I passed English 101 and took a community college course in journalism ROFL.
Sorry, I don't generally proof comments I make on other sites, and I will openly admit my spelling aer teh suxorz. I do try, and I do have my work edited before I publish on my site.
Way to go Apple, you ass hats.
When the story first broke that apple was sueing rumor sites I withheld judgement, you see I run a review site, I understand the dynamics of the tech industry and the vital role of a journalist, I also understand the letters NDA, and what they mean to a company, and what they mean to me when I sign one. I do feel that as a journalist I have protections given to me by the US constitution protecting me and everyone for that matter from persecution and prosocution as a result of what I write.
That being said it also needs to be aknowlaged that there have to be some checks and balances in the system that allow companies to protect information that if released early could damage the company. We need to recognize that we do have great freedoms and powers in the press but that we need to make sure we use those powers and freedoms responsibly, for example not outing a CIA agent that isn't doing anything more then her job, that isn't say stealing from the Repbulican National Convention headquarters, but is making our country a safer place. You know that thing we refer to as common sense.
We as a society also need to infer and compel in to people that when they make a resonable agreement with someone be it a company or other individual or institution, they need to be held to that agreement, meaning if employee's of apple did disclose information about an upcomming product and had signed an NDA, and the upcomming product was not part of a large and publicly damaging scandal they had no right to reveal that information to a third party, and thusly the third party doesn't have the right (even under freedom of the press / speech) to reveal that information to the public.
At what point do we get off the high road and start fighting a real fight against spammers crackers hackers virus writers and other unethical people. I think that it is time that we get down and start fighting at their level start using stronger preemptive tactics start shutting down their bot networks And start tracking the problem to its source and rooting it out. I think we can accomplish this by using distributed computing to scan networks a large for vulnerabilities Start using software to shut down these networks used for these activities.
Network operators need to get involved in recognizing the problem and participate in a solution
Uses a deep secure their systems from these types of attacks and participate in large scale network scans using their home personal computer in a large distributed network of computers
There needs to be a central resource available to everybody to combat these issues to filter ranges of addresses and notify those who are unknowingly involved In these negative activities.
I think that we need to enact legislation that allows us to do this legally.
its not possible for the LTSP nodes to become infected with anything, they are a slave to the server. the hardware is cheap and if your not an idiot your computers are on surge supression.
IMO the TCO of a 4 head system is still greater then an LTSP deployment, if one 4 head machine goes down you loose 4 workstations, costing time and money, you can use antiquated technology with LTSP, have functional workstations for probably no more then 75 to 150 bucks and beable to loose a machine or two without a derastic impact on the system.
As more cell phones become web enabled there will be a push for web developers to design pages that cater to those consumers. how we will do that is any body's guess however I think that a lot of browser detection with a dynamic back end will be popular. Opera has a great cell browser that does a wonderful job of making most pages that I visit small screen compatible. but I think that users will push for more as the technology develops.
thats MHO.
The name Janus is also the name of the super secure air transport to and from Area 51 for employees.
dead nancy
I wonder what the effects were, if anyone was seriously dead due to the matter.
It's still vaporware, its just vaporware with a price tag now...