[ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

[Jacob Mansfield]

I still could, I just need to run
sudo apt-get nitroglycerine
sudo apt-get install timer
tar bomb > package
sendmail bomb boss at rm.shithead.iddiot from sex at google.xxx
can't wait for
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On 26 August 2010 22:55, Grant Sewell <dcglug at thymox.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:31:35 +0100
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> >   On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote:
> > > On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker<gbplinux at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >>   On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris Douglas wrote:
> > >>> but said because of the computer contract with Research Machines,
> > >> My wife works for the largest Educational Publisher in the world
> > >> and RM is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. They dictate to schools what software
> > >> they can or can't use - any software has to be "validated" by RM
> > >> in INDIA????? They are not out to provide a service to schools -
> > >> just to empire build and make a profit.
> > >  From what I have seen, I can do nothing else but agree with you
> > > there, it's not just the software, they enforce rules on it all,
> > > and if those rules aren't followed they just don't support you.
> > > (i.e goodbye Linux partition on our CPT machines, one was formatted
> > > with ubuntu, and the RM engineer removed it because he thought that
> > > was causing the poor windows performance. -failing to notice it was
> > > set to download the users documents off of the server for each user
> > > that logged in.)
> > >
> >
> > It's about time that schools took a stand - unfortunately what RM do
> > is to contract with the LEA not individual schools, so schools get RM
> > foisted on them by the LEA and there's nothing they can do about it
> > - no doubt with substantial backhanders to the LEA members.
>
> We have fun down our way - and the same may be true right across the
> country.  It's not just the support and "what's on the deskop/server"
> that RM are into:
>
> ~$ whois swgfl.org.uk
>
>    Domain name:
>        swgfl.org.uk
>
>    Registrant:
>        South West Grid for Learning
>
>    Registrar:
>        RM Education PLC [Tag = RMPLC]
>        URL: http://www.rm.com
>
> (South West Grid for Learning = ISP for pretty much all primary and
> secondary schools in the South West!)
>
> Grant.
>
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