So many talented MAC maniacs on this list. I'm not qualified to give any sys ad. Usually I jus listen to the kine guys. But this School computer thing, mano, this is one thing I know about. Work with an EDU publisher I do. See this sort of wanked out computer ALLA time. You would be amazed at how many computers are sitting idle in classrooms around America.
I help out at my daughter's K-8 school. Ours isn't one of those schools but I've heard of some in the district that are close. One of the reasons our computers are well used is we have a lot of people over the years working on this. And we integrate the tech with the curriculum. That means that class projects are researched on the Internet and written in AppleWorks or other programs.
Here's the deal: Kids are kids. Kids are smart. They can out flummox the best of programmers. They can figure out the ONE thing you shouldn't do and do it. Takes 'em like, five minutes. People with kids at home know what I'm talking about.
We just updated all the schools computers from OS 9.2.2 to X.2.8. The kids are doing fine but the teachers, sheesh.
Teachers are overworked and most schools don't have a budget for classroom SysAd. One teacher generally lords it over the others, Mr. ClassroomTech, changing passwords and permissions then gets tired of having to help everybody with every little thing and sort of "forgets" where he put the password thingee.
Fortunately we have a Technology Resource teacher who is amazingly patient with the staff and students (well most of them).
So if the machine is not intentded to be OSXable don't try the friendly Uber Wonk stuff to make it so. Don't try to upgrade or do anything fancy or extra or BELIEVE ME, within one symester it'll be a bookend again.
Lots more of reasons why this happens, but believe me, the best thing to do is copy off whatever you can copy off then use a utility program and wipe it. Wipe it good. Do a clean reinstall from whatever discs you have and then leave her the disc.
Yeah, whatever you end up doing I always recommend a disk wipe in this situation.
It pains a MAC purest to leave five year old software alone but you know, in grade school, did you start reading with Ubu Roi?
Well of the thirty or so programs we were running under 9.2.2 I'm kind of amazed that ALL of them still work under Classic. This includes the scanner software which the manf (UMAX) isn't providing OS X drivers for. We are trying to update as much as we can to be native OS X but it's going to take time and money.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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