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Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools]  BECTa's spec on laptops for teachers
From:       "Paul Hornshaw" <paul.hornshaw () blueyonder ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-12-28 19:20:53
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From: "Adrian Wells" <adrian@spannerhammer.co.uk>
To: "SuSe" <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] BECTa's spec on laptops for
teachers


>
> > Why? Realistically, do they sit in a cupboard for the
> > hols (honestly?)...
>
> Clearly not! There are two issues.
>
> *People treat laptops worst than pool motor cars, they are usually
subjected
> to even more careless misuse during the long teacher holidays and come
back
> with damaged drives, cases & screens and it's not unusual to have to
empty
> them of sand! legitimate use? Why should they and their kids mess up a
> resource that is then denied to others because of their stupidity and
> carelessness. If ya wanna mess with stuff (expensive kit that doesn't
belong
> to you) , buy yer own!
>

T'was ever thus -- even in industry.  I remeber when a boss got a new
laptop and I was given the job of sanitising it before redeployment.
Spent hours playing his gold games before I fdisked.  LMAO

> *The weakest point in ANY network is a laptop! The network's all cosy,
> clean, virus fee and sitting behind a fire wall, then suddenly
meltdown!
> Some dipstick who knows best has loaded all kinds of everything onto
the
> laptop and disabled the AV because their kids game doesn't like
sharing a
> computer with any other software (because the rules don't apply to
them) and
> then decided to plug it into the network - cool!
>
> We like to have a clean-up and software update while the machine is
not
> needed, then we sit them in a secure cupboard so they're ready for use
when
> really needed :-) Of course if we don't get them during the holiday,
we have
> to do it during term time!
>
> And in any case, why should a sacred few have exclusive access to what
is a
> shared school resource during the holiday? Come on you lot, who swans
about
> in the school minibus and have all your fuel and repair bills paid for
by
> the school?
>
>
> >I've often noticed many of those who work within 'fortress education'
> >like to believe they are the only ones who know anything about IT.
>

You mean like the way Charles Clarke is rumoured to rely upon the
technical advice of his offspring when  formulating ICT policy.  (I am
not joking!)

> Boring! (nothing personal David, but it's one of my bandwagons!) The
BIG
> problem with IT is that everyone who owns a PC thinks they know
everything
> about it. How sadly untrue this is (me included) that's not to say
that we
> don't have our views! The sooner we remove PC's from the mass public
and
> replace them with a 'box to do a job' the better (Computing used to be
like
>
>
> witchcraft and I was one of the first advocates to get a computer into
every
> home and demystify it, long before the PC - now I see the error of my
ways)
> . The less tinkering and options to change the better. It you have a
> PlayStaion and a PC in your house, which is the most stable, the one
you
> fiddle with or the one you can't. If we could stop the fiddling all
would be
> smooth and headache free! Want a game? plug in a module, want a WP?
plug in
> a module :-) I mean, tell me, why do you need to change the background
> colour of your folders and desktop? As for PC's in schools... The
horses are
> slowing, time to jump off and take my tablets! :-)

ROFLMAO


Are you sure you should be on a linux mail list?  You luddite!  You
sound like an apologist for M$; you can have any OS so long as its
Windoze.

>
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