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[Eileen Lutzow]

Although the general labs on campus have started using Clean Slate (and 
are very happy with it), the library has chosen to stick with Fortres/Cooler 
instead.  The philosophy in the campus labs is to let students experiment 
with the computers freely "so they can learn,"  which includes installing 
software, looking at the registry, and changing browser 
options/preferences.   Here in the library, we prefer to retain more control 
over the look and feel of the browser every time someone sits down at the 
PC.  That would happen if we rebooted with Clean Slate, but we don't want 
to have to reboot every 10-30 minutes between students, or after every 
student who decides to switch the home page to a porn site and then 
leaves it open for the next person who wanders up to that PC and then 
complains loudly to the closest library staffer and/or University President.  
With the librarians right there in the building and helping students use the 
PCs, there is an implied endorsement of the default home page on any PC 
in the library, which is not as true of the PCs in the campus labs since the 
labs often don't even have a student worker available for questions or 
problems.  Also, since the library is open to the general public (including 
high school and younger students), we want to make sure that the home 
page stays put to the library's home page every single time.   We also limit 
usage of the library PCs to Web browsing, catalog access, and (in our 
Technology Center only) Microsoft Office, so they shouldn't be doing 
anything, like installing software, which would be bothered by the security 
software.    So the library will be sticking with Fortres/Cooler for the time 
being even though the general labs use Clean Slate.

Eileen Lutzow
Charleston Southern University Library

On 8 May 01, at 13:35, Jeff Papier wrote:

> > 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?