From the Email on LSU ITinfo, I can't tell if they are saying every LSU student will have to have a laptop, and every windows laptop will need to have AD, or if every student will need to buy a windows laptop. Can anyone who went to the meeting clarify this? I don't really see how they are going to make this jive with the graphic design dept requirement of a mac laptop for every one of their students. They have been talking about this for a while now, and I just don't see how it would be enforceable. Would you have to buy a laptop through the university? On the first day of every freshman class would you have to show your laptop to your professors? Would you need to show up at a designated time and place to show someone from OCS your laptop, and turn it on so they could see it was a windows machine? I just don't see how this would be enforceable. I'm currently a student and an employee of LSU, and the school itself is just way too unorganized to enforce something like this. Pass a rule, yes, I can see them doing that. There are many ways one could get out of this. Dual boot, don't go to class the first day, don't take any 1000 level classes your first semester, borrow a friends laptop, etc...
As for the whole AD thing, again I don't see them actually enforcing it. But, on a personal note, I really didn't understand why the department I work for refuses to use AD (or set up antivirus software or windows update correctly). There is no reason I can see other than job security for admins coming down and heroically saving the computers every time one of the unpatched and unupdated machines gets a virus. We actually need AD. I'm sure this is not the case in other departments, but in mine, I welcome it. Rules are made to be broken. Hopefully if an admin who knows what they are doing breaks the rule and can explain why, OCS will let them go. Just my 2 cents, Michael Shannon Roddy wrote: >> > > This was taken from an LSU posting today: > >> >>> IT-Folks, >>> >>> For the benefit of my own department, I prepped a very brief set of >>> notes >>> (attached) to summarize today's meeting. >> >> >> <I snipped this from his notes> >> >> Topic: Laptop program >> LSU is exploring a laptop requirement for students at LSU. This would >> work >> in tandem with the likelihood that ALL Windows computers at LSU will be >> required to be an "Active Directory" participant. Active Directory is a >> Windows server component that centralizes resources. It is seen as a >> necessary >> step toward securing the LSU network. >> >> </snip> > > > As a full time systems administrator for Caltech and a part time > student at LSU, I would emphatically protest the requirement to have a > windows laptop as part of my enrollment. A laptop requirement is > fine, but *I* should be able to choose the OS, especially if I have to > buy the damn thing. Linux may not be the answer, but I have found OS > X to have the best of both worlds, especially for a student. I wonder > if I could sue the university? Hmm... laptop enters campus, gets > infected, I get home and it infects my network... You get the idea. > I think LSU has enough problems with Windows worms floating around > without 20,000+ students bringing them in from home. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
