[Year 12 IPM] Audacity

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Syliva, tell your tech that due to the increased cost of software you are forced to let him go!!!
 
On a serious note - audacity is neither freeware nor shareware - it is open source software (and if he doesn't know what that is he doesn't deserve to be a tech). 
 
Ask him to download the file, install it on one machine which is isolated from the network and then run all the virus and spyware scans he can think of. When he is happy that the installation process will not harm the system he can install it on all machines.
 
Cheers
 
Ros Meadows
Lauriston Girls School
meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au <mailto:meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au> 
meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
 
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Doug Larson

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Michael Abulencia
Sent: Tue 2/21/2006 12:22 PM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Audacity



Dear Sylvia,

I dare that technician to find a solution to your dilemma.  If he/she
can't suggest anything, then bad luck, he/she has to install the
software and monitor the network traffic for any malicious activity.

He/she is giving a bad impression on ICT professionals.

That aside, Adobe Audition is what I would suggest if you are going to
purchase (with a good budget though).

Btw, have a look at this:

www.educationau.edu.au/papers/open_source.pdf

It "will" help. : )  Audacity is in page 24.

Best regards,


Michael

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