Final Year Project Brainstorming

[Tence T. George]

Well do you have to any heavy duty programming or is it informational?

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dave Scott <dscott91 at columbus.rr.com>wrote:

> Wade Smart wrote:
>
>> Choon Ming wrote:
>>
>>> Karl,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply. I've thought of that but I still need to come
>>> up
>>> with a real-life scenario where Ubuntu's security is better than Vista in
>>> order for me to develop the system.
>>>
>>
>>  I think a project that contrasts the security of Ubuntu and Windows Vista
>>> will be interesting.
>>>
>>> karl
>>>
>>
>> 20090524 0900 GMT-5
>>
>> Real life project...
>>
>> A school in Arkansas was granted new licenses from Microsoft to move from
>> a few NT machines, lots of 98 machines and a few 2000 machines to Vista. The
>> computers were very old so they were told they would have to purchase new
>> computers. The school does not have any IT person. The teachers all pretty
>> much maintain their own systems (to what degree I do not know). Their
>> systems have zero security now (for the most part). One of "perks" for doing
>> all of this is they will be granted broadband internet access. They want to
>> move to a browser based grade book.
>>
>> If you want to think about real world stuff, take the everyday small
>> things that people have to deal with.
>>
>> Instead of purchasing computers that meet Vista requirements, spend that
>> money to get new computers at a lower cost, install ubuntu, and secure the
>> whole network from the ground up. Figure the cost of IT person for Vista vs
>> Ubuntu - the steps to secure the network from the kids, the internet,
>> keeping the grades safe.. now here is a real life project.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>>
> State of Ohio standardized on Macintosh computers in the late 1980's. The
> cost of the single IT person to maintain the security on all those machines
> was much less than the cost of the entire team that was deployed to manage
> security when we switched to PC's running Windows 95. Why did we switch? Our
> director's Mac failed and Apple refused to come out to repair it. In
> response to that refusal our Acquisitions Management group killed a quarter
> million dollar PO in the pipeline for Apple's early all in one, the 5200,
> and two months later everyone had PC's with Win95 on their desks. Does that
> experience give you any ideas for your senior project?
> Dave
>
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