[K12OSN] Comment from principal about lab.

rmcdaniel at indata.us rmcdaniel at indata.us
Tue Mar 6 15:44:30 UTC 2007


Have you asked him why he would like to see MS computers???  Maybe if
you can get him to expound on the comment you may find out what is
important and then be able to present a better case to him.


Ron



Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-1752 x30
(251) 363-3201 cell
1*4238*104 SouthernLinc
rmcdaniel at indata.us



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Comment from principal about lab.
> From: "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com>
> Date: Tue, March 06, 2007 9:22 am
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
>       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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