Hi Jarrod and all. I would like to ask for 5 min about this subject in todays meeting, i would have some suggestions that would require some work regardig situations like this... Cheers Szemir
On March 10, 2004 17:01, Jarrod Major wrote: > Andrew and Group, > > There is a time and place for this kind of action. Unfortunately, I don't > believe that this is the time or place for CLUG to get involved. I agree > with everyone who has suggested getting your parents involved. Ultimately > it's their taxes that pay for your schooling and their voices that will be > heard not ours. > > Even if your parents are technologically inept, you should still make the > case to them first. Honestly, this is what any good parent can be counted > on, championing your cause for you. > > It is a goal of mine to make a case to the CBE/Calgary Separate School > Board or any school board in the region to use Linux. This is not the way I > would choose. > > Niels has some excellent suggestions that I will expand on. If you were > running your own web server you could at least pull the files from home to > school. It's getting them back home that is the trick. You are stuck with > FTP, SSH, SSH through a web browser written in Java, or some kind of web > app with PHP with file transfers set to some ungodly limit if you are > transferring really large files. These are a few suggestions for you. > > I truly sympathize with your plight. I am aware how much you feel that your > hands are tied. There is no guarantee that even if you got the right to use > any of the above apps or solutions that it would still work, what if those > ports were blocked within/without the school network. There are levels and > levels here. With all the movies and horror stories of kids hacking into > school computers how can you really blame them for being paranoid. We all > know that a healthy level of paranoia is critical to survival in this wired > world. Good on the school boards if they are this protective. I would > rather that then some creep getting vital statistics on my kid. Or using > the school resources to send out the next Trojan. And yes, a few bad apples > spoil it for everyone. > > I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your endeavors so > far. It appears that you have gone about this more or less the right way... > up to inviting us to send mail to your VP or Principal. > > Officially I don't think we can help you more than that. > > Good luck! > > Jarrod Major > President CLUG > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andrew Graupe > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:46 AM > To: Calgary Linux Users Group > Subject: [clug-talk] Linux at School > > > Now is the time for e-mail. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
