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Re: Migrating to XP and a little news...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carrie McCoy)
Tue Dec 4 14:25:39 2001
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:04:33 -0600
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From: Carrie McCoy <mccoyca@MISSOURI.EDU>
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What about Mac OS X, when is everyone planning to move to it?
On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 12:24 PM, Chuck Steel wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ***************************************************************
> 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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Carrie McCoy
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IAT Services - LaDS
University of Missouri - Columbia
mccoyca@missouri.edu
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