Account disabled for using Firefox

[giza]

If there's ever a reason why I can't stand clueless MCSE's who think that pointing and clicking around Windows makes them some sort of computer genius, this would be it. The short story is that a student installed Firefox on a lab machine at his university, and got his account suspended for it. The reason? The "network admin" told him that "the computers had to be reformatted". Riiight. Could you please show your work? No, I didn't think so.

Remember kids: MCSE == Must Consult Someone Else

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[furahi.livejournal.com]

And actually there's a hardware device (unfortunately I dont have a link) that does that... Every time a user writes on the computer it saves the difference (somehow; I suppose it has a hard disk of its own), and on next boot it gives you the choice to commit or discard changes. It's marketed mostly for schools.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's saving a journal of changes, kinda like how the ext3 filesystem does. Sounds neat, though.

[vesuvius.livejournal.com]

That has its downside, too. Users reboot all the time in public labs. "Its not working fast enough, must be locked up; I can fix it: reboot!"

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you need a password, like in the bios, to do that..
Not sure :X