My School's Stupid IT Policies

[Zodiark1593]

1 minute ago, Tb428 said:

well that depends on the students use case most High schools like mine need computers that can do video editing CAD work with autodesk inventor and coding so a single core would not be sufficient nor would a core 2 duo and i doubt a school would spend extra money on a ssd for students since the speed of a program opening is really not that much of a worry and lots of times programs and files are stored on a NAS anyway

 

how would a usb killer target a whole computer lab the usb kill just provides a shock to the motherboard and maybe some other components as well the shock would most likely be cut off by a motherboard trace or wire acting as a fuse and breaking before hitting the wall power and even if the surge made it past the motherboard to the psu there are probably some sort of diodes to rectify the ac wall power that would stop it anyway

Agreed on the demanding software needs, however, I still stand by my point on SSDs. HDD as boot media just needs to die now. Even on our work PCs with i5's, booting our systems wastes 5-10 minutes, closer to the 10 minute mark in case of updates. 

 

In a computer lab, many computers are close together. It's not difficult to move a killer flash drive from one pc to the next. 

[DiamondShark286]

Just now, Zodiark1593 said:

Agreed on the demanding software needs, however, I still stand by my point on SSDs. HDD as boot media just needs to die now. Even on our work PCs with i5's, booting our systems wastes 5-10 minutes, closer to the 10 minute mark in case of updates.

yes SSDs would help boot speeds but in a school that just cares about having the technology be usable for the cheapest they can get it an ssd is not their top priority and for me at my school even with the computers loading pretty much every special policy they could make with windows enterprise it still only takes about 1-2 minutes to boot. the slowness for your work PCs is probably caused by the programs the run automatically on startup or something like that 

[grimreeper132]

10 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Honestly, for what students are supposed to use the school computers for, Core 2 Duos are plenty. Only thing needed is (minimum for Windows, less if Linux) 4 GB of RAM each, and small SSDs. 

yes that is true, but when the core 2 duos are running CAD they aren't in any way.

[Urishima]

On 15.3.2017 at 5:26 PM, Kierax said:

If they're so dumb, just tape photos of Nicholas Cage under every mouse sensor. 

Better yet, a small photo of the Spanish inquisition. They'll never expect it.