[WEB4LIB] Re: watchdog system recovery cards

[Phillip Whitford]

I am not familiar with Watchdog but there is a similar product called
Centurion Guard http://www.centuriontech.com/index.htmlthat I have seen
demonstrated. Basically it is a hardware solution that creates a protected
partition on the hard drive where an clean image or copy of your system is
kept.  Patrons can alter the system anyway they want and a reboot copies the
protected image over  changes and restores the system to it's original
state. I have  spoken to a couple of public library system administrators
who use the product and like it.

It looks like a good idea for a computer lab environment since it allows
essentially normal access to all of Windows for learning purposes.  I'm not
so sure I want to use it alone our public library machines as I really don't
want the public making changes that require staff intervention (the reboot)
to clear up. One of the people I spoke to that uses the product also uses it
with a software solution (Fortress I think) to avoid that problem.

Now that a new fiscal year is underway I plan on ordering one of the devices
for evaluation purposes.  If anyone is interested in my opinion of it let me
know and I'll share.

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 1:11 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: watchdog system recovery cards



On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 johna at bbcc.ctc.edu wrote:

>
> http://www.cyic.com/product.htm

Different concept of watchdog card than I was thinking. Also, I was unable
to resolve this URL. Try the following:

http://209.91.99.11/product.htm

-jeff

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Jeff Godin
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Traverse Area District Library / Traverse Community Network
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