Posted on 11/28/2001 12:53:38 PM PST by Macaw
Not surprising.. the most irritating group of people I have ever had to work with are school personnel. It's as if they all have 'short-man" symdrome!
Lets face it, their security sucks!!! I have not, repeat seen any security in any school system in the Country that is worth talking about. They don't pay the IT guys enough, the job is basically thankless, and most teachers and administrators are technically imcompetent. And the use of outdated equipment is rampant.
You can have access to half the servers (most are not even passworded) and printing resources in my school district just by viewing network nieghorhood on any school computer. The director of the technical college basically uses his computer as a screensaver and the adminstrators barely are able to run MS apps.
That said, the multimillion dollar company I work for could have its network brought to its knees in seconds and security is almost as poor. IT guys usually have such a high opinion of themselves, they cannot see the forest amongst the trees.
Wake up, these are laughable arguements that are being presented in the face of the true reality. Guy wasted clock cycle (this is a school system, infamous for waste, duh!), security (duh! I would bet a million bucks, that there is none and any half-way competent student on the network could bring it to its knees), well thanks for the insight, you IT guys crack me up!
What ended up happening with this?
The guy is fine. He is active on the Anandtech.com forums.
Thanks!
This completely misses the point. The employee has absolutley no right to install anything on that business or University computer. In the case of a business, the computer is a tool to make their employee more productive not to listen to music or chat with friends. The employee should have no sense that their machine has any value of privacy from the ownership of the company. It opens up a Pandora's Box of problems for organizations to deal with employees screwing up company resources to have personal frills on a PC.
Great Perspective.
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