[ale] Re: This bites (was Re: [ale] More on Mozilla/Java)

[James P. Kinney III]

The saddest part was hearing from the friends I left how they wanted the
linux stuff back but the department hired an NT person instead. 

On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:25, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
> I guess, once the mind set is formed, nothing ever ever will change
> it. Sad to see an alledged education institution go from works to sort of
> works...
> 
> On 25 Mar 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Snoopy minds want to know: Were you able to get the liscence fee back from
> > > MS? Were you able to make the UI identify itself as a Linux implementation
> > > as opposed to a MS implementation? Are you able to check that the Students
> > > are aware that they are not using a MS solution, even though it really
> > > really shouldn't be an issue?
> > 
> > Of course there was no license fee refund. The box shipped with NT
> > pre-installed. The NT guy then blew them off and installed his Norton
> > Ghosted NT installation (it took nearly 2 weeks for that get working).
> > When I trashed the NT of the box, I had already twiddled with the ghost
> > setup and left a partition big enough for a linux distribution to be
> > installed in. 
> > 
> > The gdm screen is _clearly_ not M$. I also customized it so it had a
> > background image relevant to both the school and the department. A few
> > students didn't catch on to "use the foot icon" very fast. But they
> > weren't catching on to much of anything in the class anyway. 
> > 
> > It was VNC that really blew them all away! I gave a multi-client demo of
> > how to use the interface. They all watched the same screen and were
> > clearly astounded. I was in the process of setting up a VNC control
> > panel for the lab TA's so they could "observe" from one location the
> > efforts of the students. This was not specifically a spy tool, but it
> > had uses during lab exams. It was really speedy on it's own private
> > network.
> > 
> > Alas, I grew disgusted and left to do other things. The entire Linux
> > operations were replaced by NT workstations over the next break (it took
> > over 4 days to reinstall the ghost images, snicker) and the custom lab
> > software was deleted the following break time. It was a sad thing to see
> > them go back to the mess of "a program for every task" that I had
> > replaced with a simple to use browser interface. 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
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