HDD Sheriff - It's great!
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>x-From: Nancy Richard <nar...@email.msn.com>
>Craig - can you explain your Sheriff cards more fully -or in more simple
>terms- it is the first time I have hjeard of them and they sound very
>interesting. thanks a lot
>Nancy Richard, HEAD Academy Network
Here are two sites to check out, plus I posted again in response to
another person's reply.
JungSoft - HDD Sheriff
http://www.jsoft.co.kr/e_html/main.htm
Digi4fun - reseller of HDD Sheriff
http://www.digi4fun.com/HDDSheriff.html
Very simply, you set up a machine (Windows) just the way you want it.
Install the HDD Sheriff card, go through the supervisor mode
(password) to set up your own password. When you exit that mode, the
hard drive is imaged.
Mess up the hard drive as much as you want, restart the computer and
the hard drive will be restored to it's original state. It's that
simple.
go into supervisory mode anytime you want to change the hard drive
configuration (adding software, etc.) and when you exit the hard
drive will be imaged again just the way you have it set at that time.
Craig Nansen If learning is an act of exploration,
Technology Coordinator then technology equips the explorer
Minot Public Schools for the journey of a lifetime.....
Minot, ND 58701
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Craig:
Let's see...school cost for 420 computers - 420X$65 = $27,300.
District cost...10,000 X $65 = $650,000.
Don't mean to sound flippant - it looks like a great product, and I
wish I could afford it.
Of course, if given the choice between 420 of these cards and
pushing another 27 computers into the classrooms, I'm afraid, despite the
convenience, I'd still opt for the computers. Just purchasing for
student-use workstations only knocks about 100 off the list.
Jeffrey L. Jones
Bryan Station Traditional High School
Lexington, KY
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> x-From: Craig Nansen <cra...@mail.minot.k12.nd.us>
>
> Was Re: Anti-virus software
>
> >x-From: Nancy Richard <nar...@email.msn.com>
> >Craig - can you explain your Sheriff cards more fully -or in more simple
> >terms- it is the first time I have hjeard of them and they sound very
> >interesting. thanks a lot
> >Nancy Richard, HEAD Academy Network
>
> Here are two sites to check out, plus I posted again in response to
> another person's reply.
>
> JungSoft - HDD Sheriff
> http://www.jsoft.co.kr/e_html/main.htm
>
> Digi4fun - reseller of HDD Sheriff
> http://www.digi4fun.com/HDDSheriff.html
>
> Very simply, you set up a machine (Windows) just the way you want it.
> Install the HDD Sheriff card, go through the supervisor mode
> (password) to set up your own password. When you exit that mode, the
> hard drive is imaged.
>
> Mess up the hard drive as much as you want, restart the computer and
> the hard drive will be restored to it's original state. It's that
> simple.
>
> go into supervisory mode anytime you want to change the hard drive
> configuration (adding software, etc.) and when you exit the hard
> drive will be imaged again just the way you have it set at that time.
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>x-From: "Jeffrey Jones" <JJO...@Fayette.k12.ky.us>
> Let's see...school cost for 420 computers - 420X$65 = $27,300.
>District cost...10,000 X $65 = $650,000.
> Don't mean to sound flippant - it looks like a great product, and I
>wish I could afford it.
> Of course, if given the choice between 420 of these cards and
>pushing another 27 computers into the classrooms, I'm afraid, despite the
>convenience, I'd still opt for the computers. Just purchasing for
>student-use workstations only knocks about 100 off the list.
Just wondering, with 420 computers in a building and 10,000 in a
district, all Windows, how do you support them? A few hours of
support time per computer over a four year period could cost more
than the card!
Plus you wouldn't need a virus protection software program, a
security program like Foolproof, and kids could actually be able to
mess with Windows and not screw up the machine.
It really is worth looking into.
Craig Nansen If learning is an act of exploration,
Technology Coordinator then technology equips the explorer
Minot Public Schools for the journey of a lifetime.....
Minot, ND 58701
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Craig:
I suspect your math is correct, figured the way it should be
figured. Unfortunately, decisions about how support resources are allocated
are not generally made at the school level. We're in a budget crunch, and
my guess is the school board would never approve a 1/2 million dollar
purchase for hardware, whereas they'll happily pay the salaries of the
inadequate staff currently supporting us. Such is life . . .
At my school, support is provided in no small part by a lot of
unpaid overtime on my part. (Hello!) Throw in the fact that we don't buy
virus protection at the school level, and our lockdown software costs under
$200/year for the site (not a dime this year, since Fortres hasn't released
version 5 yet), there's no way we could yield enough savings to help with
the purchase at the school level. I would just be saving my marriage and
mind - the latter is of no consequence, but the former is worth a lot more
than a half a million! (Dweebs with low-paying jobs are not only rare,
they're not very attractive to potential spouses.)
Of course, in the back of my mind is that I'd be just trading one
set of headaches for another. Every "solution" has its quirks and problems,
and (speaking of which) I'm right now re-constructing Ghost images of all my
labs to fix a network slowdown brought on by a Fortres Central Control bug.
(If anybody wants a recommendation of Fortres software right now, you, uh,
picked a lousy time to ask!)
Obviously I'd have to buy one card, to prove to myself that it does
what it's supposed to.
Maybe my wife would cough up the bucks...good test of a committment,
that...
Jeffrey L. Jones
Bryan Station Slow as a Snail High School
Lexington, KY
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> x-From: Craig Nansen <cra...@mail.minot.k12.nd.us>
>
> >x-From: "Jeffrey Jones" <JJO...@Fayette.k12.ky.us>
> > Let's see...school cost for 420 computers - 420X$65 = $27,300.
> >District cost...10,000 X $65 = $650,000.
> > Don't mean to sound flippant - it looks like a great product, and
> I
> >wish I could afford it.
> > Of course, if given the choice between 420 of these cards and
> >pushing another 27 computers into the classrooms, I'm afraid, despite the
> >convenience, I'd still opt for the computers. Just purchasing for
> >student-use workstations only knocks about 100 off the list.
>
> Just wondering, with 420 computers in a building and 10,000 in a
> district, all Windows, how do you support them? A few hours of
> support time per computer over a four year period could cost more
> than the card!
>
> Plus you wouldn't need a virus protection software program, a
> security program like Foolproof, and kids could actually be able to
> mess with Windows and not screw up the machine.
>
> It really is worth looking into.
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