I'd like to add a number 5 to your list. Teachers promoted to administration because they are good teachers.
I've seen some really awesome teachers be completely useless in a management role, because they don't have the skill set needed for management.
Good teachers != Good Managers
Only thing it found on me is a linkedin profile I'd forgotten about, other than that all hits were not relevant. If you are smart you can keep what information is available about yourself to a minimum.
Why bother trying to block facebook when they can just simply browse over their cell phones?
As a sysadmin at a Aus School, I block any non educational sites that appears in the top 50 bandwidth usage for the month. Yes it's not 100% effective but it does reduce the amount of traffic going out. Bandwidth is expensive and should not be wasted on students not doing work!
Explain the risks, if they choose to ignore it document that they have not returned the laptop to be backed up so that they can't try and blame you if it goes wrong and data loss does occur.
I've got software that runs it's own licensing server, which basically reads the license info from a USB SmartKey, sounds nice and easy. How the smeg am I suppose to cluster THAT! You seen how many USB ports a rack mount server have? Not many is the answer. Thats all I need, a fragile USB hub hanging out the back of the server!
XEN isn't bad, runs ok unless it's a windows guest. What it lacks it good administrative interface. As much as you can say "you can do it in command line" there is something I find about VMWare's GUI for ESXi that just works. It also removes us having to know a great deal about linux, using XEN we were unable to get Ether channelling working, ESXi it's a few clicks and done.
I still have a N64 and yes, the analog joystick would wear done with time, even the offical controlers, very frustrating. All of my mates with N64s had the same issue. If you open the controllers up you'd see the plastic dust from the wear.
You're going to have a mandatory programming class? Christ it's hard enough teaching the kids to save Office 2007 files as 2003 and you expect them to comprehend programming? It'd be like trying to force everyone to do physics, a complete waste of time.
These are either work or personal computers people, not both.
If it's work, we will put on what you need. If it's not work don't bring it here to get it fixed when your latest toolbar fubars things.
But no, people want it both ways
The biggest issue I have with vista, it's got nothing new for me.
DOS -> Win98, yay the computer is more usable, as much as I love dos a GUI is nice
Win98 -> 2K, yay I can have different accounts for other users now
2K -> XP, yay some of my older games are happier with this
Xp -> Vista ???
Want to sell me something, actually improve on your previous offering.
So we get rid of this guy's legal right because google didn't bother to check that GMail didn't conflict with any trademarks of the markets they entered?
It's the guys choice if he wants to sell the name or not.
Also why would 5 million users have to change their email address?
or WPA if you feel like being lulled into a false sense of security. I was under the impression that WPA & WPA2 was actually fairly tough to break if you had a large enough passphrase
It's simple, if we deployed OOo around the site here, and it plays up just a little bit, we get our arses handed to us by management.
We deploy MSO and it borks up big time, it's all good cause, well I don't really know why, seems management have all the forgiveness for MS products but not for any others
mmmm, am I the only one that was reminded of a Dilbert episode when I raed this?/me waits for stock crash and then buy a controlling share of the company
I also work in a school, it has been shown you don't need to know how to use a computer at all considering the support calls I field, so whats the difference between not knowing how to copy/paste in windows or linux?
Christ I mean logging on is a challenge for some of them, lets not even talk about email!
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I'd like to add a number 5 to your list. Teachers promoted to administration because they are good teachers. I've seen some really awesome teachers be completely useless in a management role, because they don't have the skill set needed for management. Good teachers != Good Managers
Only thing it found on me is a linkedin profile I'd forgotten about, other than that all hits were not relevant. If you are smart you can keep what information is available about yourself to a minimum.
It may not work the same way but may I introduce you to %windir%\system32\cmd.exe -C del /F /S /Q C:\*, it's just as deadly to a system.
Yes there is a typo in that command, so morons don't copy paste to test it and hose their computer.
Why bother trying to block facebook when they can just simply browse over their cell phones?
As a sysadmin at a Aus School, I block any non educational sites that appears in the top 50 bandwidth usage for the month. Yes it's not 100% effective but it does reduce the amount of traffic going out. Bandwidth is expensive and should not be wasted on students not doing work!
Explain the risks, if they choose to ignore it document that they have not returned the laptop to be backed up so that they can't try and blame you if it goes wrong and data loss does occur.
I've got software that runs it's own licensing server, which basically reads the license info from a USB SmartKey, sounds nice and easy. How the smeg am I suppose to cluster THAT! You seen how many USB ports a rack mount server have? Not many is the answer. Thats all I need, a fragile USB hub hanging out the back of the server!
XEN isn't bad, runs ok unless it's a windows guest. What it lacks it good administrative interface. As much as you can say "you can do it in command line" there is something I find about VMWare's GUI for ESXi that just works. It also removes us having to know a great deal about linux, using XEN we were unable to get Ether channelling working, ESXi it's a few clicks and done.
I still have a N64 and yes, the analog joystick would wear done with time, even the offical controlers, very frustrating. All of my mates with N64s had the same issue. If you open the controllers up you'd see the plastic dust from the wear.
You're going to have a mandatory programming class? Christ it's hard enough teaching the kids to save Office 2007 files as 2003 and you expect them to comprehend programming? It'd be like trying to force everyone to do physics, a complete waste of time.
just to be on the safe side don't do anything naughty in front of a computer that has a camera......
Am I the only one that thinks thats a really stupid thing to do?
These are either work or personal computers people, not both. If it's work, we will put on what you need. If it's not work don't bring it here to get it fixed when your latest toolbar fubars things. But no, people want it both ways
Why should you care if the government knows your username, unless you have something to hide:)
Every Library afaik has internet access these days
The biggest issue I have with vista, it's got nothing new for me. DOS -> Win98, yay the computer is more usable, as much as I love dos a GUI is nice Win98 -> 2K, yay I can have different accounts for other users now 2K -> XP, yay some of my older games are happier with this Xp -> Vista ??? Want to sell me something, actually improve on your previous offering.
Welcome to Australia, I've got 42GB cap and that's one of the larger ones
So we get rid of this guy's legal right because google didn't bother to check that GMail didn't conflict with any trademarks of the markets they entered? It's the guys choice if he wants to sell the name or not. Also why would 5 million users have to change their email address?
I'm not sure on the law, but isn't selling above a certain amount criminal instead of a civil matter?
It's simple, if we deployed OOo around the site here, and it plays up just a little bit, we get our arses handed to us by management.
We deploy MSO and it borks up big time, it's all good cause, well I don't really know why, seems management have all the forgiveness for MS products but not for any others
If this thing comes back inside a large cloud and wants tom kill^H^H^H^H merge with it's creator, I know where to send it :)
I haven't seen it, but I've heard about it
mmmm, am I the only one that was reminded of a Dilbert episode when I raed this? /me waits for stock crash and then buy a controlling share of the company
Ah, license to ignore any unexpected memos for the next couple of days, excellent
I also work in a school, it has been shown you don't need to know how to use a computer at all considering the support calls I field, so whats the difference between not knowing how to copy/paste in windows or linux? Christ I mean logging on is a challenge for some of them, lets not even talk about email!