Looks like the conference has been cancelled :( http://www.clublug.org/
-- Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20040508/b93cc19f/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 8 22:17:09 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Rowe) Date: Sat May 8 22:17:09 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] LSU considering requiring winblow$ laptops for students In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 16:26, Will Hill wrote: > OK, time to politic. Minds can be changed and I've got plenty of time this > summer. > > Who's pushing this nightmare? The person who gave me a paws account this > afternoon told me it was a student senate initiative and that I should go > read Reveille stories about it. The laptop requirement for campus, is being pushed by student government (I think). But, I haven't heard if the laptops would be required to have Windows installed, but if I had to guess, I assume that will be pushed. The part about having all Windows machines on the LSU Campus be part of Computer Service's active directory is being pushed by Computer Services. They are trying to create a Computer Services policy (Exampe: http://appl006.lsu.edu/ocsweb/otchome.nsf/$Content/LSU+Network+Usage+Policies?OpenDocument) requiring all Windows computers (including personal ones) to be part of the LSU Active Directory for security reasons (which I am not sure is a good idea). But, I am currently researching what is happening (talking to people that have the answers) and the policies that people are trying to implement. > > > What do they really want? Centralized resources is a nice idea but what do > they want that the PAWS people can't provide? "Security" is about as > nebulous a request as they come. I agree, and a very weak excuse at that. > > Dennis, do you have answers to these questions? What meeting were you > sitting > in on? I was sitting in on the summer IT meeting for the LSU campus put on by LSU Computer Services, its a bi-annual meeting. > > > The message they need to hear is simple enough. Windows is not a standard. > It's not easy and it will cost the University buckets of cash. There are > better and less expensive alternatives. A quick demo of Mepis and an > explanation of the terrible logistics of 20,000 laptops coming in from home > to LSU's network each fall should be enough to get things on a reasonable > footing. I assume they won't require every student to have a computer in one year. They will probably require freshmen to have laptops, and that would slowly phase in the laptops over four years. But, having the added laptops could strain the LSU help desk, the network, and anything else related to computers. I am worried that after laptops are phased in and computer services can't handle all the problems created by so many student machines, that the students will start coming to me for their laptops, and then I will have to admin my departments 100+ machines and the laptops of the students in my department. Only time will tell if these problems are handled correctly. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net Dennis -- 1 + 1 = 10 Louisiana State University Biological and Agricultural Department (www.bae.lsu.edu) Computer Systems Administrator Ph: 225.578.1072, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
