hehehe Thanks Margaret .. <br><br>Our tech took a different tactic. He did some detective work to identify the culprits, quietly talked to some students to figure out their motivation, added some new software items into the base computer image, gave me a list of classes that could better supervise their students, stuck up some notes to promote the Friday 'computer games' club and organised some new funny ones by students to minimise vandalism. Any 'soft-damage' to an operating system with unauthorised
'enhancements' is quickly removed when we reimage any computer room. As he
explained .. it takes him longer to eat his lunch.<br><br>I was impressed how he understood the importance for students to have a sense of ownership of the college network ... that we are all working together to serve their needs instead of continually struggling with new rules and security hacks so that we can better shackle them to a crippled desktop.
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:margaret.lawson@konstantkaos.net">margaret.lawson@konstantkaos.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:margaret.lawson@konstantkaos.net">
margaret.lawson@konstantkaos.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>USB is the new floppy .... I think that we should just ban students,
<br>afterall we continually have problems with them.<br><br>Just like any *new* technology, develop a policy, educate and contain the<br>risk rather than ban it completely.<br><br>2cents<br><br>Margaret<br><br>> Hello all,
<br>><br>> Our network manager has encountered a number of problems with student<br>> memory sticks ruining computers. He wants to ban memory sticks. I was<br>> wondering if any list members had any policy relevant to this issue.
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