[OTT-GOSLING] Ontario Schools have MS only policy?

[Andrey Vul]

just keep your mouth shut and make frequent images of your school computer
linux classmate installed remote control software (use of school pc
during summer)
just install vmware or colinux or qemu or xen
they use p4s (non-vt, though;( ) and u can just allocate >75% of the
system ram to the emulator
use the school computers for something during the summer ;P

On 7/1/06, John Jeffers <john at j-microsystems.com> wrote:
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> Can any of our Ontario members confirm this story?
>  http://p2pnet.net/story/9207
>    I'm currently doing an email interview with the teacher in question.
> What I can say is that it doesn't seem to be board-wide policy, but a
> decision of a principal based on "advise" from staff.   I've send a series
> of questions to the principal and the trustee for that school, and hope to
> have more to publicly report soon.
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>    I note from the archives of the Ubuntu Canada list that there are
> comments about Microsoft-only policies or existing deals.  What we need is
> documentation of these things, not just roomers.  Anyone have references?
> We can use Access to Information laws to get details once we know a policy
> exists, if we aren't able to find things other ways.
>  OTTAWA CRESCENT PUBLIC SCHOOL
>  75 Ottawa Crescent, Guelph, Ontario   N1E 2A8   (519) 822-6880 "Donna
> Hambleton" <Donna.Hambleton at ugdsb.on.ca> (Secretary) uses Corel office.  On
> windows for all the school documentation.
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>  Apparently the Backbone server is running a nix and her personal machine is
> running windows and has Wordperfect on it (it's a Dell) and likely came with
> what amounts to Wordperfect family pack and is a Board Level IT buy machine.
>  She still does not know how to dump pdf's or HTML out of Wordperfect but
> that's a training issue.
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>  Upper Grand School District has apparently cobbled together a working
> solution of lower cost bits and pieces.  So I would say IT likely has a
> budget minds it's pennies and Does Dell with Windows due to the well known
> windows tax.  (You got to have this anyway ..... may as well take
> advantage.....)  On the backbone they did nixes and likely white box but
> amazingly enough their school net runs fibre to the net from each school and
> they have taken full advantage with VOIP phones to again lower cost.  I
> think Ontario gave them the fibre.  Their photocopier is a scanner copier
> with PDF, printer and email built in and does run a nix since it asks in
> setup how many inodes to give to the scanner job.
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>  There is no resident IT person but they present as a workable office in a
> small Ontario PS. both on Email and in person since I visited to go to a
> school assembly Wednesday and shook hands with everyone imaginable picking
> up my children and could not help but notice what equipment was where.
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>  I think they have a policy of not spending money unless it must be and
> getting the bang for the buck they can.
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>  Regards John
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