Re: [Hampshire] Hello

I can't
see why any teacher would want to prevent you having access to Linux.
>
Neither can I. :-( But then there are so-called 'reasons' why we can't
have Linux at school.

The annoying thing is that really dumb things happen fairly often on the
network - The command prompt was available to students a while back - I
actually had to try and convince someone I know not to type a command
for wiping the whole of your hard drive without telling you into the
command prompt (I succeeded. I'm not sure what the command line is, but
my boyfriend has a list of them - it was a pretty nasty one.)

We have this awful net-nanny called 'websense' - I don't know if anyone
else has come across it? Websense blocks bizarre words - 'sussex'
'middlesex' and 'wife' for some examples.
Wife? It came up as 'adult material'. What?! Bizarre. Surely then
'husband', 'auntie', 'uncle' and 'grandmother' should also have been
blocked?

The school has a very shaky system (peoples' folders, whole folders of
GCSE work going missing fairly reguarly, etc.). There's only 40 students
there! (Forty-two actually-anyone into Douglas Adams?), and there's also
the most terrible... well just everything, really.
If linux was installed, it would be a hell of a lot easier... (even the
school IT Technician agrees with me!) but they won't even install
OpenOffice.Org or Firefox.

They're not very open-minded computer-wise... And that is THE reason
really, why my school will never get Linux - At least not in the next
two years that I'm there anyway. :-(

....And I suspect I have gone off on a rant, and have completely
forgotten why I was writing this in the first place... ;-) Sorry!

Becky