saxondale. Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Well our school have recently upgraded there network, server, everything, and security seems to be a big issue at our school but we still use IE. I would like to tell them to introduce Firefox to our school but i know that they wont do it as they will probably say "it has taken us along time to set everything up, and if we change this, it will delay things" which would probably be true but i would really like to see Firefox at our school. So does your school use Firefox or any other web browsers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Tom (my friend) wanted Firefox to be installed. As there are 20 Citrix servers, the ICT guys cannot be bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrA Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Yes, but it's the student's choice to use IE or FF (or Opera since I installed it into my account). Unfortunately, most students use IE (looks around the lab and sees not one person using FF). But when you get to the X terminals, you only have Netscape (4.7) and Mozilla (1.7). I wish they'd install Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 IE 5.5 :/ :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rablet Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 No, only IE :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyewu Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Yes, I installed it on every computer :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sim1 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 my school comps are too crappy to load firefox :pinch: thats just.... too bad sim1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Computers at my school (Palomar College) have it installed, but with no shortcut. I found it by looking through the Program Files folder... So I use it, but nobody else really knows about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted November 8, 2004 Author Share Posted November 8, 2004 well every computer at our school has just been loaded with XP Pro SP2 and eveything it up-to-date, but when i tried to install Firefox onto my school account, i got told off and i tried to justify myself and they said that we dont use unsupported software, whats that about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeGuru Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 For the lab computers we can install firefox and most of my class does, but the 1000 computers in the "computer commons" do not have it which is where it would be most useful. Those computers are so rife with spyware that you do not even want to check your email for fear someone might get your password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Sometimes administration at school's are wayyy behind in current software news and such. Our school still uses Windows 2000 with IE 5.0, and sadly they think Windows NT has better security than Windows XP just because it has more service packs. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted November 8, 2004 Author Share Posted November 8, 2004 with the so called "upgraded system" they have basically stripped down XP, you cant even right click on the desktop, theres no run, search, controll panel, nothing. Just IE, my computer, MS Office and a school network thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phire_nuk3r Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 My School uses Netscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linked Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Yep. I work for the school now, too, and I asked if we can look into making it the default (IE is currently default). Boss said no, maybe in a while, when people are more familiar with it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pug Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Firefox is installed on every computers in the Engineering department at my university. They plan on upgrading to 1.0.0 when it comes out. I'm happy that we can choose to use Firefox and IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vignesh Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 My School uses IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Sometimes administration at school's are wayyy behind in current software news and such. Our school still uses Windows 2000 with IE 5.0, and sadly they think Windows NT has better security than Windows XP just because it has more service packs. :/ 584885427[/snapback] IMO well secured Windows 2000 workstations still decent. and since it's a school, the security issues are treated at server level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat05 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 No, and we get kicked off the network for a week if we intall anything. We also have a stripped down XP. No run command, right click, search, no access to most thing in the start menu. But I know some tricks to get admin access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 ie 5.5 :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crock Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 The Computers at my school are damn decent for what they are used for. Word, Power Point, and all of the other MS Office crap, Internet, Photoshop 5. That's it. Most of the computers are the same through the whole place: Window XP Pro SP1 Pentium 4 - 1.5Ghz 256MB DDR333 Ram. Every last one of them runs Internet Explorer. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Nope, but I have it (and my profile) on my network area so I still use it. Win+R, f:\firefox, enter, and I have all my bookmarks, extensions, history, from any computer. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaLiVa Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Only on the systems I use, the rest use IE. Then again, we have Windows ME and flooded with viruses. So we're in a pile of crap anyway. I dont think they employ volunteers for system admins as well. They think the computer is a "precious" thing with even the smallest problem can render it unusable. But they give us the freedom to do whatever we like with it, actually, thats a good idea... I should make a team of administrators for the next school campus. Hhhmmmm... Thanks for this post :p I'll think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted November 8, 2004 Author Share Posted November 8, 2004 My mate entered the command prompt (when your not ment to in the stripped down XP) and nearly got faced with suspension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaLiVa Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Sometimes administration at school's are wayyy behind in current software news and such. Our school still uses Windows 2000 with IE 5.0, and sadly they think Windows NT has better security than Windows XP just because it has more service packs. :/ 584885427[/snapback] Windows 2000 is one of the most stable OS's you can get. Thats from my own experience, not moving to WinXP till this year. 4 Years of using that OS and I never had a virus or hijack of any sort. Though IE5.0 is worrying on that part, so I wont complain about that too much. But your comment is contradicting, wouldnt having less Service Packs mean that theres less vulnerabilities. There's a reason they call it "patching". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trauma Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 The again, my school uses MAC's. With IE and Safari installed on it. I asked the Admin to install Firefox and he said it would be a waste of time because noone would ever use it. And he doesn't want to make it to the default browser. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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