[540] in resnet
Re: wireless internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daxter Gulje)
Thu Dec 6 13:07:56 2001
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:52:51 -0800
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From: Daxter Gulje <dgulje@HOUSING.UCSB.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
If you mean by imaging to use software like PC-Rdist or Altiris
or something similar, your IT-Center sounds like it's got the right
idea...using a program like PC-Rdist does a check (on boot up) against a
local server for any modified system files, files that shouldn't be
there, overly large files...you can set it up as you like it.
When I was with Instructional Computing at UC Santa Cruz, this
was the primary tool we used for consistency across the campus on all
our machines. It doesn't take very much time at all, depending on the
size of the configuration.
Trying to tell students what they can and can't
download/install/do, then having someone check it out prior to giving it
to the next student sounds like a headache waiting to happen. Students
will ignore the policy either through malicious intent, lack of
know-how, or innocent mistakes, and those checking the machine are more
likely to miss any kind of alteration to the machine than an imaging
program...
My $0.02 (That's $6,732.42 CAN),
/Dax
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Daxter Gulje
Assistant ResNet Coordinator
University of California, Santa Barbara
805.893.4747
-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Sheila [mailto:ssmith@MONTANA.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:53 AM
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: wireless internet
Hello All,
We are currently doing a demo of a wireless setup in our student union
building. One of the hurdles facing us is how to keep laptop batteries
charged...we have extra batteries but no way to charge them short of
plugging in a laptop. Is there some other type of solution, like a
battery
charger, out there somewhere?
Another thing: our IT center has told the staff to re-image the laptops
after every use because of concerns about what the last user might have
left
on the machine. They are running Win 2000. Doesn't this seem a little
labor-intensive? I'm not sure why they can't set policies for
downloading
etc and then just check the machine when it's turned in. What do others
do?
"ResNet...Net like no other"
Sheila Smith
ResNet
Montana State University
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