While I am a big FLOSS advocate, the students are K-7 and I have zero
experience with folder redirection for AD auth

On 3/4/14, 10:48 AM, "Dycus, Jeff A" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Just curious, why can't you do that in your lab?  Those operating systems
>are the right price, that's for sure....
>
>Jeff Dycus
>Library Specialist, Electronic Resources
>
>University of Kentucky
>William T. Young Library
>500 S. Limestone
>Lexington, KY  40506-0456
>
>(859) 218-0678
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>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Riley Childs
>Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:19 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL
>
>Smart, too bad we can't do that in our learning lab!
>
>Riley Childs
>Student
>Asst. Head of IT Services
>Charlotte United Christian Academy
>(704) 497-2086
>RileyChilds.net
>Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>________________________________
>From: John Palmer<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: ?3/?2/?2014 12:14 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL
>
>We are migrating our oldest machines (Pentium, 64-128Mb, 30gb hdd) to
>TinyLinux.
>
>Our Pentium and Celeron machines with 256 Mb, 100gb machines are going to
>Xubuntu.
>
>Anything below 4GB RAM is going to Ubuntu 12.04
>
> 4GB+ goes to Windows 7.
>
>
>
>On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Justin Coyne <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> They won't be a security risk on April 8th, but the first time that MS
>> publishes security patches after that date for newer version, security
>> researchers will examine the patches.  Doing so will give them an idea
>> about how to exploit the problem the patch was for.  They will then
>> try to run the exploit on XP and see if it is vulnerable. Eventually
>> they will find an exploit that works against XP.
>>
>> Even if you have a AV, people can exploit your machine without using a
>> virus.  Is that a risk you want to accept?
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jimm Wetherbee
>> <[log in to unmask]<javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those
>> > machines are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th.
>> > We will not be
>> doing
>> > anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too
>> > old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them.
>> >
>> > --jimm
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs
>> > <[log in to unmask]<javascript:;>
>> > >wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > > I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP
>> > > End-of-Life (if anything at all :(
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows
>> > > 8
>> (we
>> > > ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but
>> > > that's
>> > another
>> > > story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't
>> > > use
>> away
>> > > (sigh).
>> > >
>> > > Riley Childs
>> > > Student
>> > > Asst. Head of IT Services
>> > > Charlotte United Christian Academy
>> > > (704) 497-2086
>> > > RileyChilds.net
>> > > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>>