Keep your 'private' data on an external hard drive and just leave the system drive for the OS + applications. Extra paranoid people can encrypt it to for good measure.
I know it doesn't help much with the current problem your having, but you might want to drop a line to the college in question and let them know about the existence of Moodle. An open source virtual learning environment. The school where I work use it both in school and at home after hours. By all accounts the teachers and kids love it (and works in Firefox too!).
I work as a network manager in a school in the UK. We use a French Helpdesk system called GLPI. We also use OCS Inventory as recommended to populate the database with our hardware. Overall the solution has a few minor quirks, but if teachers can cope with it I don't understand why office drones can't!
I know for a fact (because my work ISP feed gets their feed of them) that JANET does not use the IWF blacklists.
This leads to the amusing situation where schools (who are clearly in a position to most 'benefit' from the IWF list) who use JANET or a JANET subsidiary for their Internet feed are not subject to the IWFs will.
Actually the vast majority of that type of software runs pretty flawlessly under wine. Ironically, a lot of the software actually runs better under wine than under XP/Vista because it's ancient and crusty 16bit stuff.
I am a network manager in a UK school. So I do have a little knowledge on this subject. If anyone wishes to read up on exactly what a 'Schools Agreement' license entails they can do so here and/or here. If you want to get a feel for how much this scheme costs a school have a look at this thread or this one on EduGeek.
Well yes, exactly. numactl will do this. However his bone of contention appears to be that there is no pointy clicky interface a la Windows TaskManager to do this. So I'm slightly puzzled why he's making out that there is a deficiency in the OS when the fact is that it's purely a lack of features in the window manager...
Airbus have been using composite parts in their aircraft for quite a while. However, as it turns out, this hasn't been a problem free experience. Notable examples are Air Transat flight 961 where the composite rudder fell off the Airbus A310 in mid-flight. Also, more tragically, American Airlines flight 587 crashed after the co-pilot made several rudder reversals resulting in the composite tail fin of the A300-600 snapping off.
...on forum I frequent. The site owner of EduGeek.Net (a site for IT Techies in Education) was sent a legal nastygram by Sophos for some unkind threads debating the quality of it's AV product. Some of the forums members tipped The Register off and Sophos rapidly backtracked on the idea. Hopefully, tipping off Slashdot will work for Whirlpool.
With so many lawsuits filed, surely the the RIAA knew it was going to hit someone who'd fight back? Wont they of considered this possibility and have a defence ready?
A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'" If that doesn't illustrate everything that's wrong with the US court system, I don't know what does. It's a sad day when the only people who can 'win' are those who can afford it. I, for one, hope he ends up in an appeal court with a sympathetic judge who still believes in the system.
That's because AFAIK he/she is a lawyer and has been involved in one of these RIAA cases (to what extent I'm unsure). Just look at the prior article submissions! Here and here being obvious examples.
Which is why I said "it needs to be woken up". Either by the ActiveX control that makes update.microsoft.com work, the automatic updates service or some 'Evil Trojan' as TFA mentions.
If I only ever do manual updates on windows, by manually surfing to windowsupdate.com, am I at risk for this? It's not actually necessary to run BITS in order to keep a Windows system up to date. Manual downloads from Windows update use BITs. Check %SYSTEMROOT%\WindowsUpdate.log while doing an update if your curious.
Also, it's not clear from TFA whether this can be stopped by privilege separation -- if I'm surfing as a low-priority user and hit this malware, can it still make BITS do the more-malware download? BITs runs as a service under the system account. It can do whatever it wants. However it needs to be woken up to do it, as it's default service state is set as 'Manual'.
Only thing left is for it to support multiple keyboards and mice to take us back to that. Citrix or vanilla Terminal Server springs to mind if you want to do this sort of thing. Granted it's not sharing a machine locally, but that isn't as useful as sharing across a network using cheap end client systems.
Fair enough, the schools and the staff have a 'duty of care' when pupils are onsite and/or within school hours. Beyond that it's not the schools problem. Additionally, over here in the UK there are significant legal bear traps for any school wishing to make it so. Namely the Human Rights Act.
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Keep your 'private' data on an external hard drive and just leave the system drive for the OS + applications. Extra paranoid people can encrypt it to for good measure.
I know it doesn't help much with the current problem your having, but you might want to drop a line to the college in question and let them know about the existence of Moodle. An open source virtual learning environment. The school where I work use it both in school and at home after hours. By all accounts the teachers and kids love it (and works in Firefox too!).
I work as a network manager in a school in the UK. We use a French Helpdesk system called GLPI. We also use OCS Inventory as recommended to populate the database with our hardware. Overall the solution has a few minor quirks, but if teachers can cope with it I don't understand why office drones can't!
I know for a fact (because my work ISP feed gets their feed of them) that JANET does not use the IWF blacklists.
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This leads to the amusing situation where schools (who are clearly in a position to most 'benefit' from the IWF list) who use JANET or a JANET subsidiary for their Internet feed are not subject to the IWFs will.
Bureaucracy gone mad.
I was under the assumption that software patents in the EU were not valid. Thus making any pro software patent verdict by the court in the UK invalid?
Didn't the Viking Landers already do this?
I am a network manager in a UK school. So I do have a little knowledge on this subject. If anyone wishes to read up on exactly what a 'Schools Agreement' license entails they can do so here and/or here. If you want to get a feel for how much this scheme costs a school have a look at this thread or this one on EduGeek.
Here's the website, http://recaptcha.net/
Airbus have been using composite parts in their aircraft for quite a while. However, as it turns out, this hasn't been a problem free experience. Notable examples are Air Transat flight 961 where the composite rudder fell off the Airbus A310 in mid-flight. Also, more tragically, American Airlines flight 587 crashed after the co-pilot made several rudder reversals resulting in the composite tail fin of the A300-600 snapping off.
I hope Boeing have learned from these accidents.
...on forum I frequent. The site owner of EduGeek.Net (a site for IT Techies in Education) was sent a legal nastygram by Sophos for some unkind threads debating the quality of it's AV product. Some of the forums members tipped The Register off and Sophos rapidly backtracked on the idea. Hopefully, tipping off Slashdot will work for Whirlpool.
With so many lawsuits filed, surely the the RIAA knew it was going to hit someone who'd fight back? Wont they of considered this possibility and have a defence ready?
This story seems to be just begging for it. :)
Yes, you get modded Troll, then get modded underrated six times. Tada +5 Troll. :)
That's because AFAIK he/she is a lawyer and has been involved in one of these RIAA cases (to what extent I'm unsure). Just look at the prior article submissions! Here and here being obvious examples.
...Open source sues you!
Which is why I said "it needs to be woken up". Either by the ActiveX control that makes update.microsoft.com work, the automatic updates service or some 'Evil Trojan' as TFA mentions.
I know a couple that have. However most of them have subsequently given up on Vista and reinstalled XP.
Indeed, however as it stands atm. UK Digital Cable = Virgin Media
Edubuntu will do this out of the box for you. It's designed specifically for this sort of situation.
Fair enough, the schools and the staff have a 'duty of care' when pupils are onsite and/or within school hours. Beyond that it's not the schools problem. Additionally, over here in the UK there are significant legal bear traps for any school wishing to make it so. Namely the Human Rights Act.