It's not that hard to run management software which checks these things and resets them on a daily (or hourly) basis. e.g. http://www.jamfsoftware.com/
Can a student (who doesn't have an admin account on the box) get an admin account by booting off an external DVD and resetting the password, and then remove the software? Why yes. Yes they can. Will the administrator notice within a day that it's no longer running the admin software and thus not reporting in? Why yes, yes they will. What then? Well, the same thing as if they'd gone to your care with a baseball bat... a little visit to the principal's office.
No, you don't need to lock down the machine like it's Fort Knox. Set sensible policies, and then verify them regularly and punish non-compliance accordingly. It's really not that difficult, there are regulations and precedents to help in an edu setting, and there are millions of Macs being used for just this purpose. TPM, access keys, trusted computing... LOL.
There's a big difference between 6-12 grade education and college. College, you can do what you want, and if you flunk out... that's your problem. In K-12 education, if the kid flunks out, it's the STATE'S problem. And maybe also the schools, because if a kid flunks out because they're dicking around on a computer all day and there was no management on the machines to PREVENT them from doing so, you can bet there's going to be a lawsuit.
It's all about protecting your asses, because any trouble that kids get into that the schools don't prevent... isn't presumed to be the fault of the kids _or_ the kids' parents.
And it's just not possible for the teachers to have their eyes on all 30 students in a class at all times, to ensure nobody's doing what they're not supposed to.
Well, scratch that. With Apple Remote Desktop you can actually watch the screens of all the machines remotely at the same time... of course the icons would be pretty small unless you had a 30" display and that's not so cheap.
That's ridiculous. They are educational tools, they're not for collecting and surfing porn. Not to mention, in many cases, schools can be exposed to criminal liability if students do some classes of things. Some degree of control is necessary to limit this liability.
Also, if you just give the kids the computers, they'll fart around on them all day long and pay NO attention to the classes. It's often necessary to use something like Apple Remote Desktop to lock the students' screens so they'll actually pay attention during class.
I'm not convinced that a laptop per child improves the overall learning experience. But certainly if it does, it has to be managed to some extent.
Seriously, Apple has these 1:1 things going on in hundreds or thousands of school districts. They have been well publicized. There are resources at Apple who have helped others in your exact situation... and know the tools you can use to lock things down (Managed Preferences or MCX), use proxy servers or other site filtering applications to deal with this, etc.
There are varying degrees of "lockdown" you can put on the machines, depending on where your priorities lie -- liabilities (legally) versus freedom. And the Apple SEs in the education group have seen it before, tens if not hundreds of times.
Really I think that would be a better route to go than asking here on/. Where locking down machines isn't looked upon kindly, but random Linux machines in the classroom with no management is just _not_ productive.
The iPhone can play DRM'd movies. Yes, DRM and encryption and the like give the Stallman set fits, but it's certainly a key bit of functionality for the phone that would go away if it were open sourced, right?
I just don't really see more benefits to Apple, especially when if the iPhone were open sourced would make it easier to add the stuff to Linux or other competing devices, no? Of course that would _never_ happen, code being snagged and all:-/
You must have signed something when you started the job... either for the University or for the company/agency you're working for that is under contract to the university. You should read it... as it's quite likely binding. If it states that they own the rights to whatever you produce while employed by them... it's _quite_ likely to hold up should it come to that.
This is somewhat like asking "Can I tell my wife to take a hike and give her nothing?" after you've been married for 45 years. The answer is more than likely "no." You should have known what you were getting into at the outset... after doing all the work subject to an employment contract isn't the best time to ask what your rights are or try to negotiate or open-source something. You can ask, but if they say no, that's pretty much the end of it. Unless you decide to say "screw it" and then steal or open-source the code... which could open you to criminal and civil liabilities.
This assumes, of course, that he didn't sign something in the first place. After signing an agreement/employment contract and later writing all the code, is NOT the time to "negotiate" this.
I mean, a WHOLE lot more. I fail to really see the "competitor" thing where a Gmail checker is concerned, frankly.
When I used Notes it was awful, and I hated it, but certainly there are many uses for it besides checking email, and I'm sure there are substantial requests for Notes for the iPhone that will drive iPhone option, as opposed to a Gmail app that does really repeate what's built into Mobile Mail.
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If you went from high school and got an MSCE and now think you can control IT with your madd skillz, maybe you do need to unionize. Make IT decisions based on what you know, not based on what's good for the company. Form a union, file a grievance every time a person puts a Mac on the network... I say go for it!
I don't understand how Intel-only predicates that it's a Windows application packaged in an OS X appliation? How does that follow?
The development environments of the two are nothing similar, and even though they compile down to the same instruction set I don't think that's what Silverlight is doing (*). There are fewer resources necessary to develop and support Intel-only applications than there are to support Universal binaries... especially for complicated CPU intensive tasks like video decoding. The fact is, that there hasn't been a PPC Mac sold in over 2 years -- PPC Macs are the minority and they're shrinking. That's not to say that you, with your Quad G5, have a slow machine, but there were few of those machines sold.
* One alternative for packaging Windows apps up into Intel-only Mac applications is Transgamin's Cider:
That only works for applications for which you have the source.
Not all commercial software is open source, and limiting yourself to only open-source (er, "ships as source") software is quite limiting in a business enviornment.
Dude... USER ERROR. And BTW you have the choice to rename files that you manage in Aperture as you see fit. You're just using the camera default names.
It's easier to blame the computer for your idiocy, though.
Where he can compete with other people with disabilities and artificial limbs.
Next thing you know. Steve Austin will be competing. And people will be having legs removed so they can compete on their 'bionic' ones. If the artificial ones prove to be faster than the natural ones, you can bet that some people will in fact go that far in the name of competition.
With hundreds of millions of users, if the rate were one in 1,000,000 you could get hundreds of complaints.
Of course, I don't know how many people have installed it yet so it's tough to say, but Windows is used on so many systems with so many configurations (many of them rather shonky) that it's really tough to get an accurate feel from Internet reports.
I mean, Apple's Leopard release also had some "sky is falling" reports on Apple's forums, but I talked to few if any people that had issues personally. But on the Internet everyone has a voice, and it tends to be only the ones that have problems speak up.
That said, I don't see reason to install XP SP 3 in my Fusion VM instances of Windows any time soon.
This is signing up for the SDK... I'd hope you'd know what you're getting into when you agree to DEVELOP an application for the platform.
Also this isn't about free software, it's about GPLv3 software. There are many license agreements for open source... there's BSD, there's GPLv2, there's GPLv3, there's the Apple's agreement... they all have different views of what things mean. GPLv3 is the most "preachy" in that it's as much religion and Stallman dogma as it is an agreement, and not everyone who is in business thinks it makes sense.
Because, until corporations get rid of all the crappy code they've written that requires ActiveX which is IE only (ACID or not ACID), there's still a real hook to use IE.
Mmmm. That bug (and all associated bugs) seem to relate specifically to interop with Solaris... though I'm not sufficiently knowledgable on the subject to actually know what else uses NAT-OA.
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It's not that hard to run management software which checks these things and resets them on a daily (or hourly) basis. e.g. http://www.jamfsoftware.com/
Can a student (who doesn't have an admin account on the box) get an admin account by booting off an external DVD and resetting the password, and then remove the software? Why yes. Yes they can. Will the administrator notice within a day that it's no longer running the admin software and thus not reporting in? Why yes, yes they will. What then? Well, the same thing as if they'd gone to your care with a baseball bat... a little visit to the principal's office.
No, you don't need to lock down the machine like it's Fort Knox. Set sensible policies, and then verify them regularly and punish non-compliance accordingly. It's really not that difficult, there are regulations and precedents to help in an edu setting, and there are millions of Macs being used for just this purpose. TPM, access keys, trusted computing... LOL.
There's a big difference between 6-12 grade education and college. College, you can do what you want, and if you flunk out... that's your problem. In K-12 education, if the kid flunks out, it's the STATE'S problem. And maybe also the schools, because if a kid flunks out because they're dicking around on a computer all day and there was no management on the machines to PREVENT them from doing so, you can bet there's going to be a lawsuit.
It's all about protecting your asses, because any trouble that kids get into that the schools don't prevent... isn't presumed to be the fault of the kids _or_ the kids' parents.
And it's just not possible for the teachers to have their eyes on all 30 students in a class at all times, to ensure nobody's doing what they're not supposed to.
Well, scratch that. With Apple Remote Desktop you can actually watch the screens of all the machines remotely at the same time... of course the icons would be pretty small unless you had a 30" display and that's not so cheap.
That's ridiculous. They are educational tools, they're not for collecting and surfing porn. Not to mention, in many cases, schools can be exposed to criminal liability if students do some classes of things. Some degree of control is necessary to limit this liability.
Also, if you just give the kids the computers, they'll fart around on them all day long and pay NO attention to the classes. It's often necessary to use something like Apple Remote Desktop to lock the students' screens so they'll actually pay attention during class.
I'm not convinced that a laptop per child improves the overall learning experience. But certainly if it does, it has to be managed to some extent.
Seriously, Apple has these 1:1 things going on in hundreds or thousands of school districts. They have been well publicized. There are resources at Apple who have helped others in your exact situation... and know the tools you can use to lock things down (Managed Preferences or MCX), use proxy servers or other site filtering applications to deal with this, etc.
There are varying degrees of "lockdown" you can put on the machines, depending on where your priorities lie -- liabilities (legally) versus freedom. And the Apple SEs in the education group have seen it before, tens if not hundreds of times.
Really I think that would be a better route to go than asking here on /. Where locking down machines isn't looked upon kindly, but random Linux machines in the classroom with no management is just _not_ productive.
The iPhone can play DRM'd movies. Yes, DRM and encryption and the like give the Stallman set fits, but it's certainly a key bit of functionality for the phone that would go away if it were open sourced, right?
I just don't really see more benefits to Apple, especially when if the iPhone were open sourced would make it easier to add the stuff to Linux or other competing devices, no? Of course that would _never_ happen, code being snagged and all :-/
You must have signed something when you started the job... either for the University or for the company/agency you're working for that is under contract to the university. You should read it... as it's quite likely binding. If it states that they own the rights to whatever you produce while employed by them... it's _quite_ likely to hold up should it come to that.
This is somewhat like asking "Can I tell my wife to take a hike and give her nothing?" after you've been married for 45 years. The answer is more than likely "no." You should have known what you were getting into at the outset... after doing all the work subject to an employment contract isn't the best time to ask what your rights are or try to negotiate or open-source something. You can ask, but if they say no, that's pretty much the end of it. Unless you decide to say "screw it" and then steal or open-source the code... which could open you to criminal and civil liabilities.
This assumes, of course, that he didn't sign something in the first place. After signing an agreement/employment contract and later writing all the code, is NOT the time to "negotiate" this.
I mean, a WHOLE lot more. I fail to really see the "competitor" thing where a Gmail checker is concerned, frankly.
When I used Notes it was awful, and I hated it, but certainly there are many uses for it besides checking email, and I'm sure there are substantial requests for Notes for the iPhone that will drive iPhone option, as opposed to a Gmail app that does really repeate what's built into Mobile Mail.
If you went from high school and got an MSCE and now think you can control IT with your madd skillz, maybe you do need to unionize. Make IT decisions based on what you know, not based on what's good for the company. Form a union, file a grievance every time a person puts a Mac on the network... I say go for it!
I don't understand how Intel-only predicates that it's a Windows application packaged in an OS X appliation? How does that follow?
The development environments of the two are nothing similar, and even though they compile down to the same instruction set I don't think that's what Silverlight is doing (*). There are fewer resources necessary to develop and support Intel-only applications than there are to support Universal binaries... especially for complicated CPU intensive tasks like video decoding. The fact is, that there hasn't been a PPC Mac sold in over 2 years -- PPC Macs are the minority and they're shrinking. That's not to say that you, with your Quad G5, have a slow machine, but there were few of those machines sold.
* One alternative for packaging Windows apps up into Intel-only Mac applications is Transgamin's Cider:
http://www.transgaming.com/products/cider/
Which is used for gaming only, so far as I know.
Your logic doesn't follow. Just because they stopped Silverlight for PPC Macs doesn't mean they won't have a Photosynth version for OS X.
Of course, I'd bet it will be Intel-only.
Here's what it does, so you can at least see what it does, rather than guessing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16frKJLVi0
That said, I'm on a Mac, so according to them I'm too cool to run it.
Hmmm.
Note that Netinfo and lookupd no longer exist on Leopard, so I think your comments are either innaccurate, obsolute, or perhaps both :-)
That only works for applications for which you have the source.
Not all commercial software is open source, and limiting yourself to only open-source (er, "ships as source") software is quite limiting in a business enviornment.
Dude... USER ERROR. And BTW you have the choice to rename files that you manage in Aperture as you see fit. You're just using the camera default names.
It's easier to blame the computer for your idiocy, though.
Where he can compete with other people with disabilities and artificial limbs.
Next thing you know. Steve Austin will be competing. And people will be having legs removed so they can compete on their 'bionic' ones. If the artificial ones prove to be faster than the natural ones, you can bet that some people will in fact go that far in the name of competition.
Dude, Sandra Bullock can crack that.
So can Tom Cruise, and that's without invoking Xenu.
FAIL.
With hundreds of millions of users, if the rate were one in 1,000,000 you could get hundreds of complaints.
Of course, I don't know how many people have installed it yet so it's tough to say, but Windows is used on so many systems with so many configurations (many of them rather shonky) that it's really tough to get an accurate feel from Internet reports.
I mean, Apple's Leopard release also had some "sky is falling" reports on Apple's forums, but I talked to few if any people that had issues personally. But on the Internet everyone has a voice, and it tends to be only the ones that have problems speak up.
That said, I don't see reason to install XP SP 3 in my Fusion VM instances of Windows any time soon.
How would you know? It's as if the old Ext4 system just... vanished.
Even if you found a platter under the front seat.
This is signing up for the SDK... I'd hope you'd know what you're getting into when you agree to DEVELOP an application for the platform.
Also this isn't about free software, it's about GPLv3 software. There are many license agreements for open source... there's BSD, there's GPLv2, there's GPLv3, there's the Apple's agreement... they all have different views of what things mean. GPLv3 is the most "preachy" in that it's as much religion and Stallman dogma as it is an agreement, and not everyone who is in business thinks it makes sense.
And caught the author of this cheezeball article in their round of layoffs yesterday.
Because, until corporations get rid of all the crappy code they've written that requires ActiveX which is IE only (ACID or not ACID), there's still a real hook to use IE.
He doesn't care. He has an agenda, and arguing on the internet won't convince him otherwise, despite any evidence provided.
Guess who runs Linux on his desktop? Yep, oldhack.
Mmmm. That bug (and all associated bugs) seem to relate specifically to interop with Solaris... though I'm not sufficiently knowledgable on the subject to actually know what else uses NAT-OA.
Busted how? I've been using racoon for VPN purposes for 4 months, and it's worked fine. So some specifics could be welcome, as it's not 100% "busted."