[542] in resnet
Re: wireless internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lindsay A Klik)
Thu Dec 6 13:26:20 2001
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:15:19 -0500
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From: Lindsay A Klik <klik@GENESEO.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <EF6375215231544B87FD58A965410B8A6141D8@exchange.housing.ucsb.edu>
One more thing. PCRDist doesn't work with a wireless notebook. Well it
does but the getha database will not rename the machine. Too many
hardware addresses with the wireless card and the base station, PCRDist
gets confused.
--Lindsay
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Daxter Gulje wrote:
> 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
> __________________________________________
> 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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