Education and Technology

Microsoft has a new ad campaign that features a girl named Lauren that has $1000 to buy a computer. She goes to the Apple store (she calls it the Mac Store) but can’t get what she wants for $1000. She then goes to Best Buy and ends up with an HP, which happens to be the vendor for our district.

In these economic times a Mac is way too expensive and I believe they are too expensive at any time. You can get, for a lower price what you need with a PC as you can with a Mac. You don’t have to return it to an Apple store or authorized Mac dealer to get it fixed. Plus the cost of fixing a PC is half of what it is for a Mac. Before the Mac fanboys start, lets first say that I’ve worked with both Macs and PC’s and YES Mac’s do break.

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=0bb6a07c-c829-4562-8375-49e6693810c7" target="_new" title="Laptop Hunters $1000 - Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion">Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 &#8211; Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion</a>

Enjoy watching Lauren look for her PC. It’s a good campaign for Microsoft.

Apple, Mac, PC, Microsoft, Windows

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Do you do auto updates on your computers at school? Our district has been using a WSUS server to do updates. It is important that we keep updated, especially with the hype surrounding the newest version of the Conficker worm that is to be released on us on April 1st.

This worm cannot hurt you if you are doing windows updates, but will wreak havoc if you don’t. In an educational situation, you don’t want to be exposing students to things like:

Conficker’s ability to launch a second stage, downloading additional code that could hijack computers completely, steal personal information, or commit basic extortion — demanding money for fake anti-virus software claiming to remove the infection. – Source: Switched.com

Remember this is a network virus, it is sitting doormat, but has symptoms like slow internet and Antivirus being disabled. If you have a system like this patch it and run an antivirus.

Education, Conficker, Worm, Virus

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