[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Could we all compile a GPG keyring for this group?

[Ben Goodger]

On 02/09/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 09:03, "Ben Goodger" <goodgerster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > B) This is a school that bans student use of macintosh laptops because
> > they're insecure.
>
> What a ludicrous policy. I deal with several school computer networks as
> part
> of my job, and it never ceases to amaze me how incompetent the average
> school
> sysadmin is. They probably have their office walls covered in Microsoft
> posters.


Other things include:

"The school network runs on a star system where each computer has its own
cable to the server" - which would produce a cable bundle of around 2m
diameter, wider than the server room door.
"A DVD holds about 6GiB"
"Machine code is a series of ones and noughts"
"An interpreter converts a line at a time to machine code and then runs it,
while a compiler does the whole program before running it"
"Typing idly on the keyboard while waiting to log in - " (on most of the
computers, it can take ten minutes on a cold boot to functionality) " - will
wear out the keys"
"Nobody would want a GUI that resizes the widgets to fit the window"
"Open-source software is not suitable for the school environment"
"Firefox cannot be used with our proxy server"
"Microsoft Word does not crash on its own, it must be user error" (I look
over her shoulder to a student who has been using the program for four
seconds and it has crashed) "You mean like opening the program?" (I
point)(She doesn't reply)
"The fact that source code must be handled in using [FLOSS] means that the
software is not user-friendly enough for students."

All these are from the same person, a teacher. The actual techs are lazy
arses who just reckon that the current cost of the RM service subscription
and software (£17k for an Exchange server, £124/student/year) are acceptable
as is the downtime and insecurity (we had a RAID disc fail once, and every
single client computer had to have its OS reinstalled over a period of
weeks; and as mentioned, the following are blocked off: context menus, the
run menu, my computer window, CLI because all of these allow one to bypass
the client-side-only security software.)

Fortunately the headmaster is a little more open to suggestion, and even
asked for a report on the feasibility of a partially Linux-based server
system to be used in school. Unfortunately, the teacher mentioned above
veto'd it.

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