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Re: Migrating to XP and a little news...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Steel)
Tue Dec 4 13:32:37 2001
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:24:09 -0500
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From: Chuck Steel <csteel@GETTYSBURG.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
> Since this will be the big topic for Fall 2002, I was
> curious, how many
> universities are moving to XP for the Fall? Is it a
> university wide move?
> How is the issue of the OS's need for more resources being
> handled? What do
> you think about the security levels inherent in XP? Too much,
> not enough?
We've formed an evaluation committee to start looking at XP with the
mindset of possibly deploying it in the summer deployment (we have three
deployment cycles). Generally our deployment strategy is to come up with
a set of minimum requirements for the new OS and only deploy on those
machines. When machines come into the office that can support the new
OS, they go back with the new one. Otherwise, they don't get redeployed
(except in special cases where people don't need up to date equipment).
I'm not sure what you mean by security levels. All of our users are
administrators on their computers (not our decision, believe me), so it
really doesn't matter. We would like to knock them down to a lower level
so they can't have the opportunity to break things, but the
administration won't let us.
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Chuck Steel
Student Coordinator, Response
csteel@gettysburg.edu
"Let us not forget that each particle of knowledge that we gain
helps us cement the foundation of the future."
- Ernesto Che Guevara
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