Heavily locked down doesn't even cover it! At my 6th Form College (UK) The computers all run XP, and user accounts are XP limited accounts. This means they expect you to use IE, which of course, has downloading disabled. The turning off of XP "features" has gone so far that now you cant even right click on the taskbar to close programs! Many websites are blocked (although only by url, entering an IP will get you on the site (!!)), and when i unzip firefox into my area, it has been deleted by the next time i log on. Of course, being a school, all this security is quite badly implemented. Local administrator passwords are easy to get hold of (with the aid of login recovery floppys) which allows you to install programs, and portable firefox is another option to this.
In regards to programming, I think more kids would learn HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP etc if they knew how much a teenager could earn from web design...
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Heavily locked down doesn't even cover it! At my 6th Form College (UK) The computers all run XP, and user accounts are XP limited accounts. This means they expect you to use IE, which of course, has downloading disabled. The turning off of XP "features" has gone so far that now you cant even right click on the taskbar to close programs! Many websites are blocked (although only by url, entering an IP will get you on the site (!!)), and when i unzip firefox into my area, it has been deleted by the next time i log on. Of course, being a school, all this security is quite badly implemented. Local administrator passwords are easy to get hold of (with the aid of login recovery floppys) which allows you to install programs, and portable firefox is another option to this.
In regards to programming, I think more kids would learn HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP etc if they knew how much a teenager could earn from web design...