As someone that works as a network manager in a secondary school in Norwich I can say that the IT support brach for the schools has a hard enough time with windoze.
Sorry - you've just discovered the M$ lie - Windows was designed to 'protect the user from the operating System'. However you still have to know what your doing - a computer is a tool not a crutch - An operating system will not turn you into a competent network manager any more than a graphics editor will turn you into an artist or a word processor turn me into a coherent writer. If you dont know the fundamentals it aint really gonna help. Tom
Hi Tom,
I'm not sure but I think you just insulted me. When I said the IT support branch I was talking about the IT support from the LEA most schools aren't as fortunate as mine having someone who is there fulltime just to look after the IT system most have a teacher doing it.
Next time you wanna have a pop do it privately if this is wrong then forigve me but right now I fell pretty pi**ed off with your lame response.
Ben
Ben Norcutt ben@plextech.co.uk wrote:
I'm not sure but I think you just insulted me. When I said the IT support branch I was talking about the IT support from the LEA most schools aren't as fortunate as mine having someone who is there fulltime just to look after the IT system most have a teacher doing it.
...and what I think Tom was trying to say was "why is it any easier for that teacher and spare-time sysadmin to manage a Microsoft Windows computer network than a GNU/Linux computer network with decent security and a small armada of network administration tools?" Is the answer that the LEA are blind to the cost differences?
Next time you wanna have a pop do it privately if this is wrong then forigve me but right now I fell pretty pi**ed off with your lame response.
I think you're overreacting. I should know. I'm expert at it.
MJR
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