In 2011 the Community School of Excellence launched its 1:1 program, which supplied each student with their own with Windows 7 laptop. Inadequate staff development and logistical problems hampered the initiative. Stu said, "We encountered a lot of problems with students breaking their laptops, losing their laptops or just not taking care of them properly. This became a major issue when trying to use technology in the classroom when 25% of the students were missing their laptops. At that point I began to wonder what I could do change the dynamic." Stu applied for a grant from FreeGeek Twin Cities, and received four desktop PCs for his classroom. [Emphasis added]
Ok, from the top:
In 2011 the Community School of Excellence launched its 1:1 program
The laptops are 6 years old, being used daily by elementary and middle school aged children. Based on my personal experience in public school K-12 education, the laptops shouldn't be expected to last six years...
"We encountered a lot of problems with students breaking their laptops, losing their laptops or just not taking care of them properly."
And how, exactly, did changing the OS installed on them correct the broken, left at home, or mis-treated laptops?
trying to use technology in the classroom when 25% of the students were missing their laptops.
Obviously, once they installed Linux on them everyone made sure they were working properly and remembered to bring them to class...
There wasn't anything mentioned that can be attributed to running Windows 7 on the laptops.
The first investigation found that she was grossly negligent and irresponsible in her handling of classified material - what they didn't find was 'intent'.
I wonder if the FBI, in their 'unrelated investigation' found evidence of 'intent'?
We're talking about people who catered his lunch. Also, I'm guessing that with Trump's many bankruptcies (personal and business) there were more than a few legitimate businesses and individuals who didn't get paid. Not to mention investors.
Investors decide to risk their money in an attempt to make more money - sometimes they win, sometime you lose - investments aren't guaranteed.
Trump, over his 40+ years of business has had a handful of bankruptcies, far fewer than this administration suffered as part of the PPACA (Obamacare). This administration, in less than 7 years, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in 23 healthcare co-ops, so far 17 of them ended in bankruptcy.
So, to bring it back on topic, can you imagine a low-income family refusing to pay Comcast for broadband because the service was down for 5 days last month?
The consumer doesn't have to - their state PUC goes after Comcast and secures a discount/refund for them, if they are entitled.
Ever watch daytime TV, the cable 'airwaves' are chock-a-block full of tenets suing landlords, brides suing caterers, etc... low-income people suing stores, businesses for breech of contract.
With 76,000 Windows workstations, you "suspect" that it might be on a Windows network infrastructure? You must not work in IT.
Since I know nothing about this organization other than ehat you tell me, and since you chose not to share any details about your infrastructure backbone, I can only 'suspect' it is windows-based, I can't 'know' it is anything.
I worked for years in a mixed-platform environment, 1,500 desktops and laptops, 400 of which were MacBooks... I 'know' how we setup and managed our network infrastructure, but that doesn't mean your 80,000 desktop network was setup the same as ours.
The current network I'm overseeing has 80,000+ workstations. Out of a team of 35 people, one specialist handles ~2,000 Macs workstations and another specialist handles ~2,000 Linux workstations. Everyone else handles Windows workstations.
So let me see if I've got this right:
80,000 workstation all together, along with 35 dedicated support staff for those workstations.
About 2,000 Macs are supported by one technician.
About 2,000 Linux workstations are supported by one technician.
The remaining 76,000 or so PC/Windows workstations are supported by the remaining 33 technicians.
So Mac, Linux, and PC support techs each support about 2,000 desktops - how does that prove Macs/Linux workstations are cheaper to support, or requires less technical support?
The reason your entire Mac and Linux populations can be supported by one technician each is because of the shockingly low percentage of your user base that uses them.
BTW, I suspect your Mac and Linux workstations rely on a windows network infrastructure to authenticate users, provide file storage, email, perhaps backup solutions and other services - do any of those 33 Windows technicians do double duty taking care of tech support calls on shared infrastructure issues?
As IBM's VP of Workplace as a Service, Previn is the guy responsible for turning IBM (the company that invented the PC) into an Apple Mac house. Previn gave a great presentation at last year's Jamf tech conference where he said Macs were less expensive to support than Windows. Only 5% of IBM's Mac employees needed help desk support versus 40% of PC users. At that time, some 30,000 IBM employees were using Macs. Today 90,000 of them are, he said. And IBM ultimately plans to distribute 150,000 to 200,000 Macs to workers, meaning about half of IBM's approximately 370,000 employees will have Macs.
So if 90,000 out of 370,000 employees (or about one in four employees) use Macs, you are considered a 'Mac Shop'?
Realize that IF his company is as successful as he claims then he will have trade secrets on that network that are vulnerable,
Of course, like every successful billion dollar corporation keeps all their trade secrets on their WEB SERVER?
The Windows Server 2003 box reportedly running IIS 6 is not a file server or an email server - it's a webserver hosting a brochureware site with links to other Trump property websites.
Depends on where his classified security briefings as a presidential candidate go...
This quote implies he has an electronic form of his security briefing that he can store. Everything I've ever read or heard about these briefings tells me they are done in-person with members of the various security agencies and no classified documents (no physical or electronic artifacts) are handed over to the candidate.
If you know something different, please share it with us.
Trumporg.com redirects to trump.com - what does trump.com run on?
BTW, trumporg.com is NOT his campaign website - it's a brochure web site with very little else on it and appears to be hosted on cloudflare-ngix web servers.
His National Security briefings are received in-person, not presented as emailed PPT presentations...
You know, once upon a time it was considered a good security technique to change the identity signatures of your server to mid-lead would-be hackers. I'' not saying that Trump's IT team did this, but the basis of this 'report' is that some, without ever attempting to hack into the servers, used 'public records' to determine he was running Windows Server 2003 & IIS 6.
I find it hard to believe it never occurred to anyone to try and hack into his servers, or if it did occur to them that they were found to be impenetrable...
Bottom line, a lazy reporter extrapolated a story out of a few server identification response strings. Wow.
Mr. Trumpâ(TM)s 40-year career of his sometimes refusing to pay what some business owners said Trump companies owed them
Seriously? You want to paint 'wealthy' as more (or equally) likely to not pay their bills than a low-income people based on the corporate actions taken by one company over 40 years?
Has your employer, in the past 4 decades, ever been late or missed a payment? Ever had a contract dispute with a supplier/contractor? It really is fairly common - just stop by civil court some day and see just how common contract disputes are.
Washington (CNN) -- Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the Bush White House had said were missing, two watchdog groups that sued over the documents announced Monday.
The transference of classified material to an unclassified system is a crime, possession of the classified material by someone not authorized to be in posession of it is also a crime.
Hillary got a pass because he could not find evidence that Hillary 'intended' to vomit a crime.
A sailor was convicted of possessing classified material on his phone because he took a selfie in a restricted area on a ship. Taking the picture wasn't a crime, but possessing the picture of the classified area in the background was. The sailor tried to argue that he had no 'intention' of breaking the law, but because he wasn't a presidential candidate of a major party, his defense was denied.
What, now twisted pair phone service is a basic human right, ensured by the constitution?
I wonder if millenials are aware that their wide-spread choice to forgo landline phone service at home puts their very lives in danger?!?!?!
Verizon has set a corporate policy that copper lines will not be repaired, they will be replaced with fiber. Period.
Any employee caught violating corporate policy faces penalties up to and including termination.
Is it really newsworthy that Verizon expects employees to follow corporate polices, and that failure to abide by corporate polices may result in termination? Can't an employer terminate workers that fail to follow instructions?
Precisely!!! James Colmy sent Scooter Libby to jail for blowing the cover on Valerie Plame, even though the person actually responsible was Richard Armitage.
Wrong, Scooter Libby was convicted of giving false testimony, he gave conflicting/contradictory testimony under oath.
A bit over half of Americans are on the brink of poverty, so a lot of people are looking for things to change.
The other slightly-less-than-half people think things are going pretty well, and don't want anything to change.
Wrong, everything I see tells me very nearly everyone wants 'change', almost no one is happy/content with the way things are.
Trump is the candidate to make things 'different.' Hillary is the candidate of 'similar, but more,'
There are probably ways to make the electoral system better - and there are almost certainly ways to screw up royally.
After Al Gore lost the 2000 election (and yes, he really did lose, The New York Times did an in-depth analysis after the election of votes cast, showing al Gore lost fair and square), Democrats ran around with their hair on fire, arguing that we MUST roll out, expensive, vulnerable, and frail electronic voting ASAP to avoid another 'uncertain' election outcome.
Fast-forward 16 years, now Democrats are running around with their hair on fire, insisting that THE RUSSIANS are going to upset the coming election, and the only solution is for DHS to provide 'oversight' in all elections this November 'just in case' those pesky Russians try anything.
The sitting party wants the ability to second-guess every state election, presumably with the ability to invalidate results they find 'suspect' - sounds great, doesn't it?
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The laptops are 6 years old, being used daily by elementary and middle school aged children. Based on my personal experience in public school K-12 education, the laptops shouldn't be expected to last six years...
And how, exactly, did changing the OS installed on them correct the broken, left at home, or mis-treated laptops?
Obviously, once they installed Linux on them everyone made sure they were working properly and remembered to bring them to class... There wasn't anything mentioned that can be attributed to running Windows 7 on the laptops.
The 'unrelated investigation' is apparently the investigation into Huma Abadeen's (sp) estranged husband Anthony Weiner's Sexting Scandal...
I wonder if the FBI, in their 'unrelated investigation' found evidence of 'intent'?
Investors decide to risk their money in an attempt to make more money - sometimes they win, sometime you lose - investments aren't guaranteed. Trump, over his 40+ years of business has had a handful of bankruptcies, far fewer than this administration suffered as part of the PPACA (Obamacare). This administration, in less than 7 years, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in 23 healthcare co-ops, so far 17 of them ended in bankruptcy.
The consumer doesn't have to - their state PUC goes after Comcast and secures a discount/refund for them, if they are entitled. Ever watch daytime TV, the cable 'airwaves' are chock-a-block full of tenets suing landlords, brides suing caterers, etc... low-income people suing stores, businesses for breech of contract.
Since I know nothing about this organization other than ehat you tell me, and since you chose not to share any details about your infrastructure backbone, I can only 'suspect' it is windows-based, I can't 'know' it is anything. I worked for years in a mixed-platform environment, 1,500 desktops and laptops, 400 of which were MacBooks... I 'know' how we setup and managed our network infrastructure, but that doesn't mean your 80,000 desktop network was setup the same as ours.
...give them the finger!
So let me see if I've got this right:
80,000 workstation all together, along with 35 dedicated support staff for those workstations.
About 2,000 Macs are supported by one technician.
About 2,000 Linux workstations are supported by one technician.
The remaining 76,000 or so PC/Windows workstations are supported by the remaining 33 technicians.
So Mac, Linux, and PC support techs each support about 2,000 desktops - how does that prove Macs/Linux workstations are cheaper to support, or requires less technical support?
The reason your entire Mac and Linux populations can be supported by one technician each is because of the shockingly low percentage of your user base that uses them.
BTW, I suspect your Mac and Linux workstations rely on a windows network infrastructure to authenticate users, provide file storage, email, perhaps backup solutions and other services - do any of those 33 Windows technicians do double duty taking care of tech support calls on shared infrastructure issues?
So if 90,000 out of 370,000 employees (or about one in four employees) use Macs, you are considered a 'Mac Shop'?
Of course, like every successful billion dollar corporation keeps all their trade secrets on their WEB SERVER? The Windows Server 2003 box reportedly running IIS 6 is not a file server or an email server - it's a webserver hosting a brochureware site with links to other Trump property websites.
This quote implies he has an electronic form of his security briefing that he can store. Everything I've ever read or heard about these briefings tells me they are done in-person with members of the various security agencies and no classified documents (no physical or electronic artifacts) are handed over to the candidate. If you know something different, please share it with us.
He hosts his websites on cloudflare - are they a poor choice for web hosting?
Trumporg.com redirects to trump.com - what does trump.com run on? BTW, trumporg.com is NOT his campaign website - it's a brochure web site with very little else on it and appears to be hosted on cloudflare-ngix web servers.
His National Security briefings are received in-person, not presented as emailed PPT presentations... You know, once upon a time it was considered a good security technique to change the identity signatures of your server to mid-lead would-be hackers. I'' not saying that Trump's IT team did this, but the basis of this 'report' is that some, without ever attempting to hack into the servers, used 'public records' to determine he was running Windows Server 2003 & IIS 6. I find it hard to believe it never occurred to anyone to try and hack into his servers, or if it did occur to them that they were found to be impenetrable... Bottom line, a lazy reporter extrapolated a story out of a few server identification response strings. Wow.
Seriously? You want to paint 'wealthy' as more (or equally) likely to not pay their bills than a low-income people based on the corporate actions taken by one company over 40 years? Has your employer, in the past 4 decades, ever been late or missed a payment? Ever had a contract dispute with a supplier/contractor? It really is fairly common - just stop by civil court some day and see just how common contract disputes are.
Interesting article about 100 v. 200 amp service for homes...
They were 'found in December, 2009.
It is a crime - https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
The transference of classified material to an unclassified system is a crime, possession of the classified material by someone not authorized to be in posession of it is also a crime. Hillary got a pass because he could not find evidence that Hillary 'intended' to vomit a crime. A sailor was convicted of possessing classified material on his phone because he took a selfie in a restricted area on a ship. Taking the picture wasn't a crime, but possessing the picture of the classified area in the background was. The sailor tried to argue that he had no 'intention' of breaking the law, but because he wasn't a presidential candidate of a major party, his defense was denied.
What, now twisted pair phone service is a basic human right, ensured by the constitution? I wonder if millenials are aware that their wide-spread choice to forgo landline phone service at home puts their very lives in danger?!?!?!
Verizon has set a corporate policy that copper lines will not be repaired, they will be replaced with fiber. Period. Any employee caught violating corporate policy faces penalties up to and including termination. Is it really newsworthy that Verizon expects employees to follow corporate polices, and that failure to abide by corporate polices may result in termination? Can't an employer terminate workers that fail to follow instructions?
You skipped over the part where it's a crime, punishable by actual jail time, to put classified information on an unclassified computer...
Wrong, Scooter Libby was convicted of giving false testimony, he gave conflicting/contradictory testimony under oath.
Wrong, everything I see tells me very nearly everyone wants 'change', almost no one is happy/content with the way things are. Trump is the candidate to make things 'different.' Hillary is the candidate of 'similar, but more,'
After Al Gore lost the 2000 election (and yes, he really did lose, The New York Times did an in-depth analysis after the election of votes cast, showing al Gore lost fair and square), Democrats ran around with their hair on fire, arguing that we MUST roll out, expensive, vulnerable, and frail electronic voting ASAP to avoid another 'uncertain' election outcome. Fast-forward 16 years, now Democrats are running around with their hair on fire, insisting that THE RUSSIANS are going to upset the coming election, and the only solution is for DHS to provide 'oversight' in all elections this November 'just in case' those pesky Russians try anything. The sitting party wants the ability to second-guess every state election, presumably with the ability to invalidate results they find 'suspect' - sounds great, doesn't it?
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