[WEB4LIB] Re: .wav files

[Jeff Papier]

As always, I preach the gospel of Deep Freeze on this one
(www.hypertec.com).

Thanks to DF, my fellow computer librarian and I can actually do things
other than stop security breaches.  Rather than trying to keep folks out
via lots of tweaking and ad hoc fixes, let 'em in, let 'em muck around,
then reboot and watch the changes disappear.  'Tis the essence of
satisfaction.




On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mark Pecaut wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Chris Deweese wrote:
> > 
> > Block the use of Real Player :)
> > On the grounds that it allows patrons to somewhat circumvent your 
> > security.  Besides that real player is the most annoying audio/video 
> 
> Has anyone decided to stop using these strange security programs and 
> just come up with a good method for restoring (re-imaging, as some
> like to call it) the computer to a pristine state?  
> 
> If there was a way to restore a windows installation over the local
> network with just a floppy disk, would people stop using these security
> programs, or are there other issues involved?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Mark
>