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 >[log in to unmask] > > > >-----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 >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >>