Wrezal Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 hMMM I am going to try and install Firefox on a stripped down XP WHICH sucks because they dont let us go on hardly any site. Anything considered unrealeated with school is banned. And not just porn :/. They blocked an online strategy gaming site which I could use untill to many ****** used it and got it banned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trauma Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 edit: thy shall be damnend, double post! :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkrainfire Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 our school has firefox loaded, and i use it most times. but it has problems with our proxy and 'initilizing security componets' i think it has something to do with our limited user accounts, but we are also using firefox .07 :( i wish someone would manage these computers. being a tech kid, i hate to see out dated software on computers, unless there is a valid reason for it (i.e cost, compatibility) but comon, how hard is it to install a program on 400 computers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shetland Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Our school just got rid of all the pc's and got new ones :) not sure on exact specs but something close to this: WindowsXP SP2 3ghz p4 HT 512mb DDR Geforce4 MX 160gb HDD per PC!!!! << (what the hell, thats way over spec.. or is that per user on the network to one major hdd?) which is (imo) actually a bad choice on the part of the IT admins, its a waste of money since all we do is mainly office and rarely fireworks or photoshop, but most students cant use them anyway. but i enjoy the newer pc's so its good that the IT dudes made a mistake :p i might just install CS on the last day of school ever and have a lan party :p anyways back ontopic: a friend of mine installed yzdock:P when it was still a few days after they got the pc's, they hadnt thought of all the ways around the stripped down accounts, i got into stuff like control panel lol, i didnt do nothing much bad, but if i wanted i could have done anything. but i wouldnt since its my course on the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnesia888 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 there are no group policies that can be used to enforce firefox, its a good single user browser but not over a controlled network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 no. i tried to install it on some win2k machines but it gave me heaps or errors about mussing dlls and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neyht Member Posted November 8, 2004 Member Share Posted November 8, 2004 Firefox was installed on some of the lab computers on our college campus, but so is Deep Freeze. Which means that the installs haven't updated past the preview release and personal profiles can't be saved. Firefox isn't as nice when your stuck on default settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shetland Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 there are no group policies that can be used to enforce firefox, its a good single user browser but not over a controlled network 584885595[/snapback] Set program and access defaults could work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 (edited) All my computers here at College have it installed (.93) though Safari is the default ... Edited November 8, 2004 by XxDesmus_MODxX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 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". 584885549[/snapback] That's what I was saying. It's not me with that comment, that's our Computer Services technician. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premgenius Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 When I used to be back at school and college we always used IE latest version, and right now at work we use IE 6 SP1 I tried itroducing FF but my the work people dont like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamcsays Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 On most of the windows PCs there is IE, on the unix machines they have netscape and mozilla 1.7, BUT they give out laptops to all the forestry majors and all those had Firefox installed on them. That was cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledragonxz Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I cant install anything since their group policies wont let me, I really doubt the IT dept has any idea of what firefox is. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpd Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 IE at my school too, the computers are pretty much locked down with nearly everything restricted. But as a science student I don't have much need for the computers at school anyway - good ol' pen and paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 My school doesn't have firefox, officialy... My computer science teacher however secretly installed it on some computers in some password protected folder... plus I have it with me on my USB stick so I'm not FF-less :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steffan Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 All of the computers have IE installed on them. I use ff on my computer. The department that I work for, OCCS, has some people using ff to test out some stuff. Since I build the images for the 3 labs at a remote location, I'll start making ff available for students once 1.0 comes out. There's a couple of people, in my department, that are looking into providing ff to everyone in the University, but ff needs to be customized before it can be used. There's a special folder on each HD where the profile needs to go and some other tweaks need to be done before it can be consider to be pushed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stezo2k Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 nah, we have netscape installed, but ie is the default browser :pinch: shame really, i do prefer ffx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 no..they still have IE installed on all the computers here in my EE department. Not only that, but there is a craptastic adware search toolbar installed on all the machines as well. Fortunetly, Firefox is so cool that it doesn't require you to have Administrative access to install. So I have it installed on my Z: drive (linux, NT4 domain, roaming profiles style). So I use firefox at my university :) :) :) Firefox rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstx Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Our school uses IE6 on the network accounts. We mostly work on our own hard drives, though, so we can install whatever we want. A lot of guys including me use firefox :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman255 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 My school has Mozilla installed on all of its computers so you get the choice of using it or not. Kinda nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstx Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Our school just got rid of all the pc's and got new ones :)not sure on exact specs but something close to this: WindowsXP SP2 3ghz p4 HT 512mb DDR Geforce4 MX 160gb HDD per PC!!!! << (what the hell, thats way over spec.. or is that per user on the network to one major hdd?) which is (imo) actually a bad choice on the part of the IT admins, its a waste of money since all we do is mainly office and rarely fireworks or photoshop, but most students cant use them anyway. but i enjoy the newer pc's so its good that the IT dudes made a mistake :p i might just install CS on the last day of school ever and have a lan party :p 584885585[/snapback] :huh: Our school has 1,5ghz P4's with 256mb RAM (the newer ones are about 2,4ghz) and we have to run Photoshop CS and 3D Studio MAX 7 on it :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjimmy Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Firefox is still menat for geeks and individuals, if you're someone in the company to make the decision, you won't go for IE at this time. The majority of website and applications are still supporting IE, but not FF. Also you cannot ask user to switch only because few folks use it now and you see a big increase due to these geeks. When IE release next version and gain more popularity, then you'll have to ask users to switch back. These switching fee is expensive in terms of support, application, etc. So in terms of the whole school, well, maybe they can install it as a program in the student lab, but for staff and faculty, no, stick with IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted November 8, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted November 8, 2004 no, and I got told off for downloading/installing into my user area. They also stopped us running exectables... partially down to my && my friends, methinks :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Errr... I have been out of school for a while now, but where I work they are very Microsoft-centric. There is only IE. Except that I have installed firefox on my PC. And I see that our local IT guy uses Firefox, as well. :p I'm not part of the IT department, so I don't know how many PCs here have it, but I would have to say that probably 50-75% of the people here haven't heard of it. This isn't a computer/technology place where I work. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 These switching fee is expensive in terms of support, application, etc. So in terms of the whole school, well, maybe they can install it as a program in the student lab, but for staff and faculty, no, stick with IE. 584885948[/snapback] i disagree there they could put it on the system just not set it as deafult then its up the indervidual user as to which application they use... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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