Jason Mellema, RMS Principal, distributed an Apple white paper titled “Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow 2” for his faculty to read. I’ve compiled the email responses here. They are copied and pasted verbatim. I did clean up the formatting for some:
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Cathy Wagner asked me about a bare bones computer setup today. Here’s the information I gave her:
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The Decision and Purchasing Process
For Christmas, we decided to replace our aging Windows XP box. Yes, I had a WinTel computer that I got from my dad when he went Mac. We’d upgraded the hard drive and processor, added USB-2 and wireless cards, but it was retirement time. We’d milked everything from it. In addition, [...]
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Illan Olsen recently bought an iMac and I portended a peppering about problems. Because of this peril, I was propelled into preparing a paper for Mac potentates. Others have proposed I pencil my points, but Illana panicked me into producing.
For this, Illana is the Ethernotes “Hero for the Day” on 31-Oct-09
Getting the Most Out of [...]
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I didn’t even know this Mac Business Unit blog existed before today. As usual, I’m late to the party.
Mac Mojo alerted me to this series of online videos for Office 2k8.
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This ought to be interesting. It is my contention that Ravenna is severely imbalanced. My guess is by 4-5 servers.
Supe’s go out and see all the wonderful things that can be done with a machine and a guy with a computer in front of them. They don’t see the bit guys in the back. When [...]
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SIDEBAR
Using the local admin, create Sidebar how you want to look.
REGISTRATION
Add Registrations
iTUNES
Double check that Sharing Libraries is turned off for all
MENU EXTRAS
Turn off Time Machine
Time Machine has its own preferences
Train users to read dialogs.
Especially train mobile users to read sync dialogs
Youtube: Monty Python and 300 trailer
By default network home directory are created from the Server [...]
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Note: John D. is dressed in all black like Steve Jobs. No turtleneck though.
Understanding the different user account types.
GUEST
Basic, simple, anonymous dumb login for KIOSKs
Sub teacher needs access for a day
Log out and home directory wiped out
Very handy
Performance wise, works great
Falls apart when you have multiple users
MOBILE ACCOUNTS
Network managed account cached locally
Operational capability as a [...]
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Lunch was very good. I liked the pretzel rolls.
I sat with Hamilton, OAISD and Holland Christian for awhile. Then I moved over and talked to Ryan, a Ravenna graduate.
Ryan’s with Kenowa Hills and manages the lower grade level buildings mostly. They have about 600 Macs total. He’s good friends with the guys at Kelloggsville. We [...]
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Cheese & cracker! I had a whole bunch of notes here? What happened?
I’m going to have to review from John D.’s pdf links.
One thing that was an aside is the discussion on a 3rd party print server: Paper Cut
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