[K12OSN] Comment from principal about lab.

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

That is...until you stop volunteering.  I sure wouldn't volunteer at a
place that ripped out a working, functional LTSP setup.  You want MS
Windows, then you're paying me high dollar because maintenance on it is
such a pain.

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Joseph Bishay wrote:
> I guess part of the problem is that much of this work is being done on
> a volunteer basis.  Thus increased manhours isn't too daunting if they
> can get Windows.
>
> Joseph
>
> On 3/5/07, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
>> Joseph Bishay wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > So I thought I would vent here. I was at the school just checking on
>> > the lab after a power failure.
>> >
>> > I was using the boot floppy on the clients and made the comment that
>> > hopefully in our new school (see the other thread about a new
>> > building.)  we would not need the boot disks. The principal replies
>> > with "hopefully in the new school we will have Windows instead of
>> > this."
>> >
>> > * Sigh*  I wonder why I ever bother.
>>
>> It might be a good time to point out that if you had Windows 2000, you'd
>> be running around manually fixing the time zone on each one since
>> updates don't include that.  Add that to your TCO...
>>
>> -- 
>>    Les Mikesell
>>     les at futuresource.com
>>
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