Re: [info-tech] Fwd: Iowa Educators needed to support EETT Funding

[Steven Scarbrough]

I am leaving Storm Lake effective 1 August 2006. Please contact Julius Koth for 
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Re: [info-tech] NECC'06 highlights

[Steven Scarbrough]

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Re: [info-tech] Yesterday and Today

[Steven Scarbrough]

I am leaving Storm Lake effective 1 August 2006. Please contact Julius Koth for 
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[info-tech] Yesterday and Today

[Steven Scarbrough]

Did you notice that yesterday was the last day of support for W98?

Today's announcement...
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+extends+lifeline+for+older+PCs/2100-1012_3-6093274.html

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[info-tech] Greener Pastures

[Steven Scarbrough]

Hey, fellow Techies!

I thought I'd let you know--I have formally accepted a position in the business 
world.  It has been a pleasure working with you all.

I'm on [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now.

Should any of you be interested in the position, feel free to give me a call at 
work.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough

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[info-tech] Fwd: New Trends in Secure Wireless LANs for K-12

[Steven Scarbrough]

Passing this on from 3Com.   FWIW, consider management features, through-the 
air security (WPA, etc.) and Network security (VLANs, etc.) and your switches' 
capabilities (PoE).

Re: security, see

Open source 

[ http://www.packetfence.org/ ]http://www.packetfence.org/ 

[ http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=70947 
]http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=70947 

[ http://www.sf.net/projects/netpass ]http://www.sf.net/projects/netpass 

[ http://netpass.sf.net ]http://netpass.sf.net 

Commercial solutions 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/index.html (was Perfigo)

http://www.classicnw.com/  

[ file://www.bradfordnetworks.com ]www.bradfordnetworks.com 

Sygate has one, but Symantec just bought it  

[ file://www.impulse.com ]www.impulse.com  

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Options

[Steven Scarbrough]

If you're in the market, check out this product.Tons of awards.
http://www.astaro.com/about/awards

And its reporting, oy!
http://www.astaro.com/arm/example/asl_v5/FAEReport10152004.htm

Steve Scarbrough

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Re: [info-tech] Terminal Server Environment?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Kurt writes:
>The point is to get the last usable life out of obsolete equipment.

In that respect, if the machines are still running, an RDP client could point 
to Microsoft TS, or an ICA to Citrix. Citrix is better for bigger farms or 
wimpy WAN connections (think dial-up). That'd give you full access to real MS 
Office or other
applications on your TS. (Though watch your group policies carefully! don't 
give them access to the C: drive or ShutDown, etc.)  You can specify whether 
they get just a desktop or just a specific program, depending on how you set up 
your client.

But if you could live with OpenOffice, you would have absolutely NO CALs if you 
did Linux TS, ala NoMachine.  That is, instead of a Microsoft Server 2003 with 
server license and CALS, plus Terminal Server CALs, and then XYZ copies of MS 
Office
2003--gotta license the same nuimber you run as TS clients, though you install 
only once) ... you could install a NoMachine server appliance and have NO CALs.
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If/when your machines die harder, then you could do Linux Terminal Server 
Project (LTSP). We have two mini labs of LTSP.  One beefy linux box with a 
printer, and resurrected PCs (literally taken off the floor of the shop!). They 
PXE or Etherboot from an
image of linux on the beefy machine.  So you'd get yet MORE life from those old 
machines - no hard drive is necessary, just a solid NIC and Graphics card.  The 
user is on a linux desktop for free--Internet, OpenOffice, and file/print with 
access to their
home folder. Or to stretch the concept, add an TS client and they get a 
Terminal Desktop or application.

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[info-tech] CALs

[Steven Scarbrough]

TS cals are about $27.00 per, and server cals about, what, $5.50/each on our 
Select agreement. TS cals have to be claimed as user or device. If you don't 
use TS across the Internet, user CALs fit the bill nicely, particularly where 
you have more users
than machines.

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Re: [info-tech] Terminal Server Environment?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Kurt writes:
>Ok, I am thinking of setting up a terminal server environment from a 2003
>server with Linux clients.
>Who’s had experience in this, and what are your impressions?

I have lived on Linux with the ICA (Citrix) client.  If you've seen Suse Linux 
Enterprise Desktop, now "SLED," it comes with it. I think SuSE 9 and 10 may as 
well.  Anyway, it was very easy, and very solid. I ran it from home for nearly 
a year to a full
desktop on my Terminal Server. 

It was way easiser than running a VPN client (can you imagine managing VPN 
clients for all staff and students?), but not as easy as web access.   
http://citrixweb.slcsd.org

FWIW, Citrix adds some very cool features on top of MS Server 2003 terminal 
services, such as load balancing, failover, and a drop-dead awesome universal 
print driver.  (Really is universal -- very cool.)  Keep in mind that there's 
two major features to
consider, one is remote access across the firewall to file/print, and the other 
is ROI from within the LAN.

We have been running 10 users for about two years on Citrix, and this academic 
year rolled out full-time access to our business PC lab for all students... and 
now we've trained staff--remote access to their files and printers. The word is 
spreading to
the students, though not formally. 

On that server we publish MS Office 2003, JMC Office, and FileMakerPro 8 
desktop.  So 60 simultaneous users can get to those apps across the firewall or 
during the day from within.  (JMCOffice on Citrix is awesome for our remote 
sites.)
===
Instead of linux desktop, consider a $149.00 terminal appliance 
(http://www.ntavo.com) , which can connect via RDP, ICA, or X.  It has USB and 
sound, depending on the model.  So there's no more desktop management; no hard 
drives, no RAM, no heat. Very
slick. Add an LCD with speakers and you've got a "green friendly" machine (uses 
WAY less electricity) with very little need for support.

But these won't burn CDs. and yes, if the LAN goes down, so do the clients. We 
had about 300 desktops on one cable modem once for a temporary fix when the 
Internet went down for that building. Even with all that traffic, the Citrix 
client worked
flawlessly.

We have saved some old PCs by doing a PXE boot to a master, (Linux Terminal 
Server Project). Once booted, they can login and get all the same Home folders 
as on a Mac or PC, and mostly the same applications. Firefox and Konqueror had 
to be told to
masquerade as IE 6 to do JMC Attendance.)  These could also hold the terminal 
client if you wanted access to the "real" MS Office or frankly, the entire 
desktop on the terminal server.  And if memory serves, there's a Windows 
Terminal Server client for
Macintosh.

If you really, really want to save some money, check out 
http://www.nomachine.com/ 
And the managed route, http://www.safedesk.com

No machine does ONLY linux on both ends; desktop and server, whereas safedesk 
specializes in the service of customizing Linux desktop to work with your 
servers and directory.  If you really want Linux RDP, see Tarantella...
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2126357/tarantella-unveils-rdp-client-linux

We are split here in SL on whether to expand terminal services. THERE IS NO 
QUESTION that it offers a slam-dunk better TCO, but some of my staff like 
Macintosh. A lot.

Change can be hard. Test early, plan early.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] But is there access to a host machine?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Some thoughts on [ http://www.realmsys.com/solutions_mps.html ]RealmSys...

The Personal Server assumes one has access to a host machine with USB; which is 
not a valid assumption. In a classroom pilot, for example, each student might 
have a RealmSys device...  

When it's time to login, each student needs access to a machine, likely in a 
lab. But if you're in the lab, you don't need the device!
If one is at home, one still needs access to a machine.  If big brother's on 
the only PC in the house, good luck getting on the PC. Eventually the PC is 
available, as are public library machines, but this is not the same as a 1:1 
initiative.  For this
device to be useful, there must be access to a host machine. If the plan is for 
the students to use the teacher's machine, they have to wait in line -- ugh!
--
And If one doesn't have TS, it seems to me that half the utility of the device 
has been lost.  Don't get me wrong, I love this idea, particularly for tech 
staff and maybe administrators.  But if one already has a laptop, it's a 
redundant expense.

So how do we get more access to student computers?  More bare-bones machines at 
a cheaper cost.

In my humble opinion, that is the $100.00 laptop.  As cheap as a Palm Pilot, it 
comes with all you need because it _is_ a full PC.  (mostly.) 
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945985,00.asp  (Thanks, Keith, for the 
link.)

But how do we get one to test?

My $0.02 worth,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] Wireless Projector Adaptor

[Steven Scarbrough]

Tim writes:
>wireless projector adaptor

Kinda spendy...
http://accessories.gateway.com/AccessoryStore/PC+Accessories_316441/Enterprise+Networking_393067/Wireless_393071/Wireless+Access+Points_393072/12891121_ProdDetail

Steve Scarbrough
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Re: [info-tech] web based time clock system

[Steven Scarbrough]

Matt writes:
>I was wondering if any one uses a web based time clock system for punching
>staff in and out each day.

We use Infotronix's hand scanner, which has a web component. One buys the hand 
scanner and puts it on the network. If power goes out, the stamps are stored on 
the scanner.

Meantime, you install SQL 2000 and the application that will poll the 
scanner(s) for checkins/checkouts.  

Finally, you start IIS and tell it to publish the Infotronix tables. Then staff 
can--via the web--see their timestamps.  But we've not published via IIS yet.  
This box is a W2K server, and uses buggy IIS 5.x. So for security's sake, until 
we get this
migrated to W2003 Server, IIS is off.  Building secretaries can print hard 
copies of time cards as requested and just before payday.

The system was expensive, but saved us from hiring a person and paying for them 
every year as we expanded by about 50 new employees.  One-time investment vs. 
salary and benefits over and over.

The best part is that it does indeed connect with Software Unlimited's UAS. No 
more timecards -- it's all electronic.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Student Health Manager

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes:
> The Spirit Lake Schools will be having a software demonstration on Student 
> Health Manager, this from ECI software located in Marshalltown, IA.

Dan, will this be their OSX version, or are they still in classic?  (Tiger no 
longer ships with Classic, and Universal/Rosetta won't do classic.)

Curious,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] Anti-Spyware for Schools...

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jeremy writes:
>anti-spyware software

FYI...
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/testing/009740.html

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Newsletter material?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Occasionally I put stuff into a district newsletter that goes to my entire 
town. This link seems to have some good info on Cyber-Bullying, Weblog online 
safety, and some chat abbreviations, etc.

http://www.iffcmh.org/06Feb20News.pdf

Perhaps you all will find it useful as well, all nicely typed and all; ready 
for citation and re-publishing.  (Ignore the top blurb about the conference.  
The tech stuff starts with "CyberBullying."

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Security Videos

[Steven Scarbrough]

FYI, check out these videos. And cache them if you think they're useful.

http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=7103&bhcp=1

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] Microsoft Case

[Steven Scarbrough]

Re: Microsoft & MN

The short version:  An IA award is not in the works. 

The office of Roxanne Conley http://www.roxanneconlinlaw.com  called me back. 
She was co-counsel in the MN case.  She is now involved in another class action 
suit against MS, and it is taxing her firm's resources. It does NOT involve 
schools, and won't.

However she _may_ someday consider a class action lawsuit on behalf of the 
schools in IA. If so, her office wonders how many computers were ordered by 
schools.  "Do we keep track of that sort of thing?" she asks.

So if you would someday like to be involved with this lady, and IF she decides 
to do a suit, she'd welcome some data.
I'd suggest we aggregate the data.  I'd be willing to collect it if you want.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Cascade Template

[Steven Scarbrough]

We ask a local shop (Buena Vista Stationery  & Printing) to do them for us; we 
just update info each year. They do it in Quark. They might be willing to sell 
their design template; they got the original from us in PageMaker6.5. Ours is 
available now
here...
http://www.slcsd.org/tech/EmergencyPrGuide.p65

Or for outsourcing (These are a royal pain to assemble) contact:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 712/732-3039

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Microsoft Case

[Steven Scarbrough]

Re: Microsoft

The IA Attorney General's Public Information Officer was a bit foggy on the 
details, and would check more for us, but not a lot.  He recalled that IA won a 
lawsuit, but there was no agreement for recompense, it was only for 
non-competitive action(s). It
was pretty much dead. 

He offered to get somebody to call MN to ask, but figured this must be a 
separate action of Minnesota's; originally MN was in on the anti-trust thing 
with IA.

He referred me on to this lady, who supposedly has a class action lawsuit 
against MS.
http://www.roxanneconlinlaw.com/

They're to call with more info.   I'm pursuing this because I just got a quote 
from SHI on what it would take to deploy Microsoft in a bigger way. Ouch!

Steve S.

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Re: [info-tech] Microsoft Case

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:54 PM -0600 wrote:
>Does anyone know where Iowa stands in the law suit against Microsoft?

This is the latest on the IA Attorney General's site. 
http://www.iowaattorneygeneral.org/latest_news/releases/nov_2002/Appeal.html 

I have a call in to their Public Information Officer to ask just that question: 
where is IA in all this?

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Technology Survey for Technology Literacy

[Steven Scarbrough]

Ann wrote:
>Can someone help me to locate the Technology Survey that we can use for 
>our Technology Literacy required?

   Ann, this is the best I could find that is global.  I also found a specific 
document to Storm Lake, which had different URLs.  It didn't work to truncate 
the URL, so you may have to contact Lisa L, as suggested.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101
===
AEA12 Tech Survey

The 8th Grade Technical Literacy survey is now available for those 
districts that choose to use it.

  The student survey is available at:
http://survey.aea12.net/survey/31341/170b/

In addition to the student survey, we have also developed a teacher 
survey for districts wanting to look at the connection between the 
student results and the need for additional professional development 
for their teachers.

  The teacher survey is available at:
http://survey.aea12.net/survey/31349/1148/

Please contact Lisa Lohman at  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   or  
800-669-2325  x.5547   for instructions on how to access your 
individual district results. Each district will get two URLs for 
reports (one for the student survey and one for the teacher) that are 
unique for the district.  You will be able to use filters to generate 
any number of disaggregated reports, and you can save reports as pdf 
files.

*Just as a reminder, you do not need to have 8th grade tech-literacy 
data available until the fall of 2006 as required by NCLB, however, 
many schools have indicated they would like to survey their current 8th 
graders in order to have baseline data.

If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Nancy

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[info-tech] Which brand are you using?

[Steven Scarbrough]

http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-2418-14-56-138576-293039-0-0-0-1

-Steve

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[info-tech] Free Linux Training

[Steven Scarbrough]

FYI...

http://www.novell.com/training/promotions/netwaretolinux/modules.html

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Software Unlimited-FYI

[Steven Scarbrough]

I am forwarding this because I understand many of you all use this same 
software.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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From:   "Tom Chaplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:RE: Training Tidbits - Transfer Manager
To:     Steven Scarbrough

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the New Year's greeting...  It seems years slip by quicker
and quicker all the time!  

We are continuing our "re-write" of the SAS system to .NET and Sql 2005.
Our "release date" is not set yet, but we're hoping for late this year
or early in 2007 to start the beta testing.  It's been "slow going"
trying to get all of our standards set and making sure we're taking
advantage of the SQL 2005 features, but my hope is that our development
team will continue to "speed up" with each new application they do.
They've completed most of the database design and also the first round
of programming for our Fixed Assets module. They are now working on
General Ledger and the Report Writer. 

We are now working on some additional Web-based software for our current
version of SAS, including a new Web-Based Purchase Order Module that
might be of interest to you.  Watch for more information about that in
the next few months.

Feel free to share this with the other tech coordinators, Steve...
And we'll try to do a better job of keeping all of you updated with our
progress and what you'll be needing to do when we do roll out the Sql
version...  There will be a decision to make for each school if they
want to use the "free" version of SQL that we can distribute or have
your own licensed version...  We'll do some performance testing as we
get closer to try to help with this decision.

Steve, I hope that helps a little... And I hope your New Year is getting
off to a great start!

-Tom

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Re: [info-tech] error report

[Steven Scarbrough]

George wrote:
>T
>hat’s too bad because I’ve had most of my issues solved in the return 
>information from Microsoft.

You get a response?? I never have, sadly.

Steve Scarbrough
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Re: [info-tech] crystal ball time

[Steven Scarbrough]

George wrote:
>$100 laptop

Volume sales only, gosh darn it!  One has to buy in lots of 1,000,000.   (Did I 
read that right?) Ouch. Do we even have that many students in IA-K12?

Runs linux.   Hmmm... can it connect to my servers? Can I load more onto the 
OS, such as a Citrix client?  Will it come with Java?  So many questions...

What if the ILTC could instead of the grants could buy the first lot of, well, 
a lot of them?  Dang, but what this would do for kids w/o computers right in 
the good ol' USofA!

Suppose John O'Connell is on top if this?  Scott, have you heard any state-wide 
rumblings?  

Last I heard the prototype wasn't down to $100.00 yet because the volume sales 
had to be prepaid to assure vendors of the volume purchases.  

Pins and needles,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] WebStar

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jackie's friend wrote:
> If, say, for some reason your root pw  
 
>is no longer being accepted, where in the prgramming/scripting would  
 
>one go to change it . . .?

May I ask a clarifying question--Are you referring to the OS?  WS has no 
officially named "Root" password. 

Forgive me for the next paragraph, but I don't want to assume too much...

Depending on how you set up the OS, your alternate local OSX user may be able 
to get you in. Root is seldom used in OSX to keep folks who muck stuff up--like 
me--out of the system. Usually your first user is the admin user and root your 
backup.

If by root you mean that WebStar's default user/password, that's trickier.  WS 
may have to be reinstalled, if it's anything like the old version 3 from days 
of yore.  Unless your friend has a backup admin user.

Ideally in WS5 one sets up an _OSX_ user that has specific rights to the CGI, 
but no further, and a _WS5_ admin acccount that is used if and when needed.  
But in the default config, one doesn't need to access anything in WS if JMC is 
your only
application and page, dedicated to JMC.  If you have a backup admin user, such 
as your friend, that might suffice. But if your friend isn't an admin user, 
you'd have to reinstall WS to get to the admin interface.

Based on what you wrote about the restart, it might be time for a deeper 
health-check on that system; file rights and hard drive health; perhaps major 
surgery--backup your teachers' grades, et. al., and blow away the entire HD, 
resintalling everything. 
Then you'd know if your friend's server has a clean OS at the least.

Might it be the JMC CGI scripting? Probabaly not. Bill at JMC is pretty solid 
about keeping folks like me out of the CGI. But if you strongly suspect it, I'd 
contact bill at jmcinc.com, at that very email address.

Best of luck to your friend,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Computer Monitoring Software

[Steven Scarbrough]

Mark wrote:
>We are looking for a good Computer Monitoring software program

Zenworks and Apple Remote Desktop.  With Zen one can also do asset managment, 
remote imaging, and patching.

Steve Scarbrough
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Re: [info-tech] elementary progress reporting

[Steven Scarbrough]

George wrote:
>We imported S&B directly into JMC.  Works great. What did you use to put
>together your S & B???

We have our S&B is in Word, (not my choice) but importing's not our issue. It's 
that the very structure of how we do S&B doesn't match JMC's concept.  

The short version is that because we offer math classes in 1 semester--or 2--or 
3, it throws off how we pull that down from HS to K-8 within JMC.  What we 
teach doesn't translate into when and in what courses we teach it.  Believe me, 
we worked with JMC
for weeks on this. 

Making time a non-issue has been one of our strongest HS curricular decisions, 
but that all may change with HS That Work.
-Steve Sc.

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Re: [info-tech] Printer repair question.

[Steven Scarbrough]

John wrote:
>Has anyone else come across this and could someone tell me if it is the fuser?

Julius, our PC technican, has worked on printers for years. His first 
inclination was the same as you -- new toner cartridge.  It brings with it a 
new drum each time on the HP B&Ws. We did have one bad cartridge once, FWIW.

Failing that, he suggests that pulling out the fuser--one can see if there's 
gunk on or near the rollers. If so, change the fuser kit much as Jeremy 
suggested.

If not, consider testing the laser assembly by swapping with another 4050... if 
either the laser or the tracking is failing, it might produce the same result.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] elementary progress reporting

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jackie wrote:
>So now with the ability to create a progress report that ties into 
S&B...

The JMC update assumes you have your standards and benchmarks in JMC. We worked 
with Greg from JMC for about two weeks this fall until we all concluded that 
our S&B wouln't fit the JMC system.  We'd have to do a major revision to our 
S&B to make them fit
JMC.  That's not something we're prepared to do, changing our curriculum to 
meet JMC's restrictions.

This just as the CGI (OSX) for S&B blew up and we had to uninstall the S&B 
version of the gradebook, attempting to fix it by installing the standard IP 
gradebook.  (That didn't work either--it was an error in the CGI.)

Reinstalling 150 gradebooks, restoring & recovering grades, trying to force S&B 
into JMC's back end, building an online database for the elementaries, and 
parents wondering why grades aren't on the web; it wasn't a pretty start to the 
quarter.

Things have thankfully settled down now, but in the end, our S&B won't fit 
JMC's setup.
-Steve Scarbrough

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Re: [info-tech] elementary progress reporting

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jackie F. wrote:
>
>maybe  we should see what others are doing.

Our Elementaries have been waiting for years for JMC to come through with a way 
to bring benchmarks to a prograss report, and if possible, tie it to a 
gradebook. After eight years I finally caved and built our own progress report 
with the "Skills
Checklist" of our elementaries, which basically has the grade level benchmarks 
plus detailed reading data; fluency, BRI, etc.

As of this quarter we're running live with FileMakerPro 7/8, pointing to a 
FileMakerPro8 Advanced Server.  We had over 60 users on it simultaneously over 
the WAN (54Mbps) with just a tad of latency.  The teachers find their class, 
input their grades, and
navigate to a print menu, where they choose english or spanish.

It's working, but not without some pain. Printing legal size, for one thing, is 
tricky for some teachers.  Then there's home access.  (We put FMPro on Citrix 
to resolve that.)

Underneath I added the students' state ID and building so we can, at least in 
theory, do longitudinal analyses.

The bottom line is that JMC is not meeting our Elementary needs, nor our 
district's data needs. When I see Pearson's Inform database I'm blown away. 
Call me crazy, but shouldn't a district be able to design their own reports?  
More so, shouldn't teachers
be able to see data so they can do _real_ data-driven decision-making?

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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[info-tech] DST

[Steven Scarbrough]

Has anyone heard from MS or Apple about software updates for the proposed 
change that extends Daylight Saving's Time?  A couple of my business office 
machines are running time and date sensitive applications. Trying to stay ahead 
of the game.

Curious,

Steve Scarbrough
Storm Lake CSD
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Re: [info-tech] AEA8 Trojan CivicEd

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 3:39 PM -0600 wrote:
>Don't forget to check the header info on the e-mail message as well. 

Not to confuse, but it was a website worm from the link on the AEA8 site...
Not the AEA8 site, per se, but rather the site to which we're all supposed to 
go.
-SS

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[info-tech] AEA8 Trojan CivicEd

[Steven Scarbrough]

My Superintendent just forwarded an AEA8 email to me today regarding 
"Constitution Day."
As it turns out, the _CivicEd_ site referenced is infected with a trojan.

1) keep those virus defs up to date
2) I've contacted theCivicEd webmaster
3) I'm working with AEA on it now... everyone's out...

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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[info-tech] Fwd: Do you need your Resource Management to be Highly Effective? Make ZENworks

[Steven Scarbrough]

Re: managing labs...

While some of this is clearly marketing hype, check out what Zen does... 
manages handhelds as well as desktops, imaging, HW and SW inventory, patch 
management, publishing updates to applications... whether windows or linux 
desktops...

... and you don't have to have netware...
... nor do you have to give up Active Directory if you have it.

Steve Scarbrough
Storm Lake CSD

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Re: [info-tech] OS X and Tray iMacs

[Steven Scarbrough]

Brian wrote:
>Does anyone knowif Tiger works on older tray loading iMacs?

Not sure -- might be a stretch. But consider Netboot or USB drive to load an 
image.

Steve Scarbrough
Storm Lake 

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Re: [info-tech] lab management software

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 10:33 AM -0600 wrote:
>Does anyone use some sort of lab software to manage your computer labs?  Im 
>looking for a program to monitor students and beable to take control of the 
>machine.

Zenworks or WorkGroupMgr/ARD.

Steve Scarbrough
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Re: [info-tech] Fwd: Want a Computer on Every Student's Desk?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jerry wrote:
>
>If they want free of cheap PC's, why not just use up
>
>all those old 100 mHz PC's and use thin-clients

Excellent point.  However I wonder how many staff will want multimedia, i.e., 
United Streaming snippets, to project to their classes. If too many do that on 
LTS, it will begin to tax the server.

Yet long-term, particularly for labs doing simple word processing or web 
research, terminals can't be beat.  

Novell's Linux Desktop comes with the Citrix client built in.  So if Open 
Office isn't enough, they can still get to the Presentation server for the real 
Office 2003. 

Food for thought, this terminal server stuff. If one can avoid paying a 
Microsoft Terminal Server CAL for every user by going Linux TS, there's huge 
long-term savings.
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[info-tech] Fwd: Want a Computer on Every Student's Desk?

[Steven Scarbrough]

Looks like it's not just for geeks anymore. Unless you count all schools in 
Indiana.
http://www.linspire.com/linspireletter

Oh, and check out the second to the last paragraph in this pundit... 
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050804.html

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Want a Computer on Every Student's Desk? Ask Indiana!

by Kevin Carmony 

August 9, 2005 
 
  Facing tight school budgets, teachers and administrators have had to be creative to provide quality education programs. Tapping grant money, rubbing elbows with politicians, holding bake sales and raffles, and soliciting more funds from parents have all become standard practice in most schools. 
  

   If you talk with teachers, almost all will tell you
  
that they have to reach into their own pockets to buy supplies for their classrooms. As technology advances and the needs of students move from paper, pencils and bottles of glue to the real world of desktop and laptop computers, these budget constraints hit even harder as teachers struggle to provide access to the common PC tools that their students will all use in the modern workplace.  
Historically, the education market has been Apple Computer's business, starting back when teachers were using the Macintosh to self-publish class newsletters and syllabuses. 


 Fast-forward to today, when Apple's college campus rep

program is very successful and their new “one-to-one” program is well thought out. The problem with the Apple solution is that it's just too expensive--reserved for those schools flush with money or in wealthy communities. It doesn't always turn out well: Georgia's Cobb County School District, working with Apple to supply iBooks to students to the tune of $25 million, is now at the sharp end of an economic fine point and defending itself from a lawsuit.

  

  


   Indiana Schools are using Wintergreen with Linux

  

Microsoft is into education 


 in a big way, too, and

has been for years. However, high costs for the operating system and office software plus security risks can make a widespread Windows-based system deployment hard to swallow for a school district.  
 But what has been the result of all these PC education programs? The computer-to-student ratio nationwide has never cracked 5:1, and it hasn't been clear how to improve these results -- until now. 


 In Indiana, public schools are trying to get more students in front of computers with the groundbreaking Indiana Access  Program, dedicated to bringing the ratio down to one computer for every student. But how do you accomplish this in an era of tightening budgets? You need to get creative.  
Instead of expensive, fragile laptops that students carry around, Indiana focused on pilot-testing affordable desktop computers running Linux. These are good machines with a 2.4 Ghz Intel or AMD processor or better, 3.5” floppy drive, CD-RW, 40GB hard drive, 512MB RAM, optical mouse with scroll wheel, and Linspire Five-0, all for less than $300 a seat!
Desktop Linux is now a legitimate third choice for administrators and educators struggling with how to equip their classrooms and prepare students for the future. Installing stable and virus-free computers with powerful hardware and commonly available and affordable parts--all equipped with the necessary application software for basic computing and research tasks--seems to be working well for Indiana. 
Could this 


 1:1 desktop Linux solution work in other states as well?

 Maine, Michigan and New Mexico initially based their 1:1 programs on laptops but are now having to curtail them due to budget constraints.
Indiana is finding out that students don't care what brand of PC they use at school. What matters is that they HAVE a computer to write reports, do research on the Internet, use a spreadsheet to present data, work with digital photos, email, and so on. The Linspire OS provides all the software they need, all in a comfortable, familiar user interface with file compatibility with popular products such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  

  

  
  


   The Randolph Rebels use Linux desktops

  

I'm proud that Linspire has played a role in seeing desktop Linux become a viable alternative for helping to educate o

Re: [info-tech] POE

[Steven Scarbrough]

What's everybody doing for wireless security?  Since Cisco bought Perfigo, our 
deployment costs just went through the roof to use their system. (Was $7k. Now 
$45K x seven sites, + $4k/year/site.  Ugh.)

Anybody using RADIUS or 802.11x authentication with key changing?

At a minimum, how are folks keeping script kiddies from brute force attacks on 
passwords if they sit in the parking lot with a laptop?   (That'd never happen 
in this day and age, right??)

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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[info-tech] Cringely

[Steven Scarbrough]

"After a decade of messing around, thin client computing is almost inevitable 
for businesses"

I'm not sure how many of you read this guy at the PBS site, yet I want to pass 
his name on.  He's entertaining, if nothing else. Check out this week's 
editorial..

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050721.html

Some strong implications for computers in schools.  Consider where we may be in 
ten years--very interesting fodder for discussion.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] Clarisworks Converter?

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 8:46 AM -0600 wrote:
>We've had some luck saving it as RTF (Rich Text Format) and then opening 
>up in Word.

But one has to open it first if it's a received file.  Looks like it's in 
AppleWorks v6.  The age-old question of standards - Meat to one is potatoes to 
another. Apparently at least one place still uses AppleWorks, not word.

Which brings up the question - how many of you all _don't_ use MS Office for 
your standard suite?

Curious,
-Steve Scarbrough

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Re: [info-tech] Clarisworks Converter?

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 8:11 AM -0600 wrote:
>One of our teachers received a large file in Clarisworks ("CWK" file 
>extension).  Has anyone had any success converting this type of document to 
>Word 2002 or 2003 format?   The sender has told him that they cannot save the 
>document in Clarisworks as a
>WORD file.  I think they can but they won't or don't know how.  

Sure, we still have remnants of CWK (AppleWorks 5... and some v6) over here.  
Send it on over and I'll translate.  Or if you have lots, we once bought a copy 
of a translator tool.  I'd have to look it up if you want its name.

Steve Scarbrough
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Storm Lake Community School District
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[info-tech] Draft Bill re: Information Privacy

[Steven Scarbrough]

See... http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/News/07062005_1583.htm

While this proposed bill (above) seems to be a reaction to identity theft in 
business, I wonder what concerns we schools should consider, other than FERPA? 
(http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) 

Is it enough to only think about a family's right to contest innacurate info?  
That is, what steps should be taken at schools to _protect_ information?  How 
far should one go?  To what extent are we responsible for security-- are we 
liable? 
(Particularly when school I.T. is traditionally under-funded [IMHO])

Any thoughts?

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
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[info-tech] Fwd: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-189A -- Targeted Trojan Email At

[Steven Scarbrough]

FYI, see the message below.  Homeland security...

Note especially the suggestion to disallow auto-opening of email messages via 
window paning, most common in Outlook. Also note the recommendation of firewall 
rule--deny all-- but for a proxy.

Steve Scarbrough, CISSP
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

- Original Message -

Friday, July 08, 2005 4:32:27 PM
Bulk Message
From:   US-CERT Technical Alerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-189A -- Targeted 
Trojan Email Attacks
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Targeted Trojan Email Attacks

   Original release date: July 08, 2005
   Last revised: --
   Source: US-CERT


Overview

   The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has
   received reports of an email based technique for spreading trojan
   horse programs. A trojan horse is an attack method by which malicious
   or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless files. Once
   opened, the malicious code can collect unauthorized information that
   can be exploited for various purposes, or permit computers to be used
   surreptitiously for other malicious activity. The emails are sent to
   specific individuals rather than the random distributions associated
   with a phishing attack or other trojan activity. (Phishing is the act
   of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established
   legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering
   private information that can be used for identity theft.) These
   attacks appear to target US information for exfiltration. This alert
   seeks to raise awareness of this kind of attack, highlight the
   important need for government and critical infrastructure systems
   owners and operators to take appropriate measures to protect their
   data, and provide guidance on proper protective measures.


Description

   There are two distinct elements that make this attack technique
   significant. First, the trojans can elude conventional protective
   measures such as anti-virus software and firewalls, both key measures
   in protecting the US Critical Infrastructure networks. A number of
   open source and tailored trojans, altered to avoid anti-virus
   detection, have been used. Trojan capabilities suggest that
   exfiltration of data is a fundamental goal. Second, the emails are
   sent to specific or targeted recipients. Unlike "phishing" attacks,
   the emails use social engineering to appear credible, with subject
   lines often referring to work or other subjects that the recipient
   would find relevant. The emails containing the trojanized attachments,
   or links to websites hosting trojanized files are spoofed, making it
   appear to come from a colleague or reliable party. The email
   attachments exploit known vulnerabilities to install a trojan on the
   user's computer. When opened, the file or link installs the trojan.
   Trojans can be configured to transmit information to a remote attacker
   using ports assigned to a common service (e.g., TCP port 80, which is
   assigned to Web traffic) and thereby defeat firewalls. Once the
   trojanized attachment is opened, a remote attacker can then perform
   the following functions:

 * Collection of usernames and passwords for email accounts
 * Collection of critical system information and scanning of network
   drives
 * Use of infected machine to compromise other machines and networks
 * Downloading of further programs (e.g., worms, more advanced
   trojans)
 * Uploading of documents and data to a remote computer

   US-CERT is working with other computer emergency response teams
   worldwide to address these types of attacks.


Suggested Actions

   Due to the targeted distribution of trojans spread in this way and the
   possibility of communication with remote attackers using ports
   assigned to common services, detection of this activity is
   problematic. US-CERT advises that system administrators take the
   following actions:

 * Educate users to use an anti-virus scanner on all email
   attachments.
 * Maintain and update anti-virus software and signatures to detect
   malware that may be associated with this attack.
 * Block executable and/or suspect attachment types at email gateway
   or block the download of executable content via HTTP.
 * Investigate anomalous slow-running machines, looking for unknown
   processes or unexpected Internet connections, as this may be an
   indication of malicious programs operating in the background.
   Encourage reporting and full investigation of such behavior.
 * Update operating system and application software to patch
   vulnerabilities exploited in the past by these Trojans.
 * Implement spam filtering to guard against infrastructures (e.g.,
 

[info-tech] Fwd: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-180A -- VERITAS Backup Exec Soft

[Steven Scarbrough]

FYI...

Steve Scarbrough, CISSP
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

- Original Message -

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:02:19 PM
Bulk Message
From:   US-CERT Technical Alerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-180A -- VERITAS 
Backup Exec Software 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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 National Cyber Alert System

   Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-180A archive 



VERITAS Backup Exec Software is actively being exploited

   Original release date: June 29, 2005
   Last revised: --
   Source: US-CERT

Systems Affected

   VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent

Overview

   The VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows contains a buffer
   overflow that may allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to
   compromise a system and execute arbitrary code with administrative
   privileges.

I. Description

   VERITAS Backup Exec is a data backup and recovery solution with
   support for network-based backups. The VERITAS Backup Exec Remote
   Agent is installed on systems that are to be backed up. It listens on
   TCP port 1 for messages indicating that a backup should occur.

   The remote agent software fails to properly validate incoming packets,
   which allows a buffer overflow to occur. Specially crafted
   authentication messages can be used to trigger the buffer overflow,
   making it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to exploit this
   vulnerability.

   Exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available. In
   addition, we have received credible reports that this vulnerability is
   being actively exploited to execute arbitrary code with Local System
   privileges. We have also seen increased scanning activity on port
   1/tcp. This increase is believed to be attempts to locate
   vulnerable systems running the VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent.

   US-CERT is tracking this issue in the following vulnerability note:

 * VU#492105 - VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent fails to properly
   validate authentication requests. This issue is also identified 
   as VERITAS Security Advisory VX05-002 and CAN-2005-0773.

   In addition, US-CERT is investigating other, potentially serious
   vulnerabilities in VERITAS backup software:

 * VU#352625 - VERITAS Backup Exec Server Service contains a buffer
   overflow vulnerability. This issue is also identified as VERITAS 
   Security Advisory VX05-006.

 * VU#584505 - VERITAS Backup Exec remote access validation
   vulnerability. This issue is also identified as VERITAS 
   Security Advisory VX05-003.

II. Impact

   A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary
   code with administrative privileges on a vulnerable system.

III. Solution

Apply a patch

   VERITAS has issued patches for each vulnerable version of Backup Exec
   Remote Agent. Information about these patches can be found in the
   VERITAS Patch summary for Security Advisories VX05-001, VX05-002,
   VX05-003, VX05-005, VX05-006, VX05-007.

Restrict access

   US-CERT recommends taking the following actions to reduce the chances
   of exploitation:

 * Use firewalls to limit connectivity so that only the backup
   server(s) can connect to the systems being backed up. The standard
   port for this service is port 1/tcp.

 * At a minimum, implement some basic protection at the network
   perimeter. When developing rules for network traffic filters,
   realize that individual installations may operate on non-standard
   ports.

Appendix A. References

 * US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#492105 -
   

 * US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#352625 -
   

 * US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#584505 -
   

 * VERITAS Software Security Advisory VX05-002 -
   

 * VERITAS Software Security Advisory VX05-006 -
   

 * VERITAS Software Security Advisory VX05-003 -
   

 * VERITAS Software Security Announcement -
   

 * iDefense security advisory -
   
   _

   These vulnerabilities were reported by VERITAS Software. VERITAS
   credits iDefense with supplying information regarding VU#492105 and
   VU#584505. VERITAS credits NGSSoftware Research Team with supplying
   information regarding VU#352625.
   _

   Feedback can be directed to the authors: US-CERT Techn

Re: [info-tech] Help for a colleague

[Steven Scarbrough]

John wrote:
>Do you mean joining a domain or just trying to access a share?

Sounds like both...

i'm having enormous trouble with our conversion to windows 2003 sm biz 
server.  i set up users fairly simply, gave them rights to directories, 
etc., but i'm having enormous trouble getting the xp workstations to 
connect.  workgroups are set same, domain controllers are all off 
(except for server of course), filesharing is on, netbios is turned on, 
everything appears to be configged properly, but only one workstation 
can connect.  the others can see that one workstation and each other, 
but not the server.  i just spent the last 6 hours looking for info on 
what i might be doing wrong but found nothing.  and of course, we have a 
person from chicago flying in in the morning to do training on the new 
software but only one workstation... works... rgh.  
---
I forwarded on the DNS suggestions - not sure from this description where he is 
on that.

Thanks all,

Steve Sc.

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[info-tech] Help for a colleague

[Steven Scarbrough]

A guy I know just installed Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 and can't get 
9 of 10 XP machines to connect.

Any suggestions?  We do mostly NetWare for PCs here - I've no idea where/how to 
begin helping other than to check the SP2 firewall settings on XP.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Cisco Contact

[Steven Scarbrough]

Does anyone have contact information for the Cisco Educational Representative? 

Thanks,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] AccuScan supplies

[Steven Scarbrough]

Steven Scarbrough wrote:
>I have the following available for cheap or free...

Gone in 60 seconds.  (Wasn't that a movie?)
All the AccuScan stuff has been spoken for.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough, CISSP
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] AccuScan supplies

[Steven Scarbrough]

Do any of you all use AccuScan?  If so, would you be interested in some 
supplies?

I have the following available for cheap or free...

QuantityDescription
3   AccuScan "Bag&Carry" card readers
2   small bag of receipt printer rolls (approx. 10 rolls/bag)
2   boxes receipt printer ribbons (box=dozen ribbons)
2   big boxes receipt printer rolls (approx 45 rolls/box)

Please email me directly if you want any of this stuff. I have been asked to 
get it off our receiving dock.  :-)

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

[Steven Scarbrough]

>
>10.1 is very solid.

Have either of you tried Mandrake 10 or Suse 9.3?  They both found all the 
drivers in my gateway 450SX laptops - (former BVU machines) - even the wireless 
cards. And with SuSE AutoYast updates were slick, checking dependencies as 
needed and downloading
before installing.  Similarly RedCarpet made apps searchable and serviceable. 1 
DVD or 3 CDs for Novell's distro of SuSE.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

[Steven Scarbrough]

Lance wrote:
>
>There are kids running Linux on X Boxes in
>the world so nothing is impossible

Indeed. The newest XBox runs the PowerPC chip, so now the kiddies can load 
Yellow Dog Linux.  Weird that MS moved from Intel to the PowerPC.  Weirder yet 
that _Apple_ switched camps.  Is there no normalcy? Is the entire world in 
chaos?  Will terror
reign?  Arghhh!!! :-)
=
The best take on the Apple announcement, IMHO, is here...
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2113-8-85-98526-240138-0-0-0-1
Be sure to read both pages.  

I find this interesting because Novell's Linux Desktop is very 
compelling--after only 6 desktops one has saved money over Windows at the SLA 
price of $0.50/student.  Wireless drivers and all. Nonetheless, as George 
referenced, whether one plans for
Longhorn or OSX on Intel, one will need to plan for new hardware. The beauty of 
Linux is that it will run on _old_ hardware.

Meanwhile, for the zealots out there in shock, consider this pundit's view...
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/rupertgoodwins/0,39020691,39202451,00.htm

Speculation abounds--some say that Apple's next step (no pun intended) is an 
iTunes-like service for movies. See Robert Cringely...
 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050120.html

I wonder whether iFlix will come in time for Christmas?  

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Fwd: Silver laptops $425/$450

[Steven Scarbrough]

Looking for inexpensive used laptops? BVU is selling the last few of their last 
student laptops with one year warranty for $450/each.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

- Original Message -
Friday, May 27, 2005 11:27:05 AM
Message
From:   "Ken Clipperton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Silver laptops $425/$450

Steve,

 I thought I should let you know that we still have some of the silver laptops 
available. 10 or more = $425 each. Warranty and ADP through 4/1/2006. These all 
have brand new LCDs in them. Full details attached. (Feel free to pass along!)

Ken Clipperton
Managing Director of University Information Services
Buena Vista University
712-749-2386 (voice/fax)

  




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Re: [info-tech] Two Questions

[Steven Scarbrough]

Lance wrote:
>We already use
>Multimedia as a class title.  Any suggestions.

How about something along the lines of...
Media Relations
Media Production
Public Media Production

Seems like all of your listed hands-on managment areas are ones of Public 
Relations-- using various media.

Steve Scarbrough
Storm Lake Community School District

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Re: [info-tech] JMC Software - Message from Dan Mart, Graettinger

[Steven Scarbrough]

FYI...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security US-CERT and the Multi-State 
Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) invite you to participate in 
the next session of the National Webcast Initiative: 

The Invasion of the “Bots”
You Could Be A “Zombie” and Don’t Know It!

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 (3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern)



Presenters:

Bill Hentschell, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Security Specialist
And
Wayne Hauber, Iowa State University
Systems Analyst 

 
Think zombies are only found in scary science fiction movies?  Think Again!  
Your computer could be a “zombie” caught up in a Botnet. 
 Join us on May 18th for an informative presentation on what you need to know 
about BotNets and how to prevent those “robots” from attacking your computer!


This Webcast is FREE!

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register, please visit:  [ http://www.nysfirm.org/may18nationalwebcast/ 
]http://www.nysfirm.org/may18nationalwebcast/

http://www.cscic.state.ny.us/msisac/webcasts/05_05/index.htm

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] help with microsoft word

[Steven Scarbrough]

Bill wrote:
>nothing works yet. any more ideas?

How about this...
--
In Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, how do I restore the 
installation to its original state?
Windows 2000 or XP

Note: The Windows XP default desktop view and Start menu are different from the 
Windows Classic View (e.g., in Windows 2000). Therefore, navigating to certain 
items can be different. In the interest of broad applicability, most Knowledge 
Base
instructions assume you are using Classic View. For information about switching 
your Windows XP default view to Classic View, see the Knowledge Base document 
In Windows XP, how do I switch to the Windows Classic View, Classic theme, or 
Classic Control
Panel?

   1. Put the correct copy of the Microsoft Office CD in your CD-ROM drive. For 
example, if you installed Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, then be sure to 
use the Microsoft Office 2000 Professional CD.

   2. Click the Start button. From the menu that appears, select Settings, then 
Control Panel.

   3. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.

   4. Click the Change or Remove Programs button. In the window that appears, 
click your version of Microsoft Office to highlight it.

   5. Click the Change button, then the Repair Office button. In you don't see 
a Change button, click Click here for support information. , then click Repair.

   6. In Office XP, choose the radio button labeled Repair Office-Restore your 
Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage installation to its original 
state. In Office 2000, choose the radio button labeled Repair errors in my 
Office installation.

   7. Click the Finish or Close button.
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Re: [info-tech] JMC & lunch

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Friday, May 13, 2005 at 10:01 AM -0600 wrote:
>There are questions being 
>raised on whether charges are 100% accurate . . . .

Short version: number pads and cards both work fine.

Longer version...

Our Middle School gets the record for time and accuracy.   We crunch through 
165 kids in 20 minutes - X 4 grades on JMC Lunch (650 total).  The fingerprint 
scanner, though it worked, was too slow.  We now use a USB number pad where 
students type in their
number - which matches the circulation database, etc.  The lunch supervisor 
hears a tone for every student and simply glances to see if they are who they 
say they are - names, no photos over the WAN.   This tone also allows the 
supervisor to see and
handwrite an "overdrawn" slip if necessary.  (We hear JMC is working on a way 
to print to receipt printers - something we very much miss.)

In this way we can effectively move lots of kids fast. However we did have a 
time where JMC's lunch was charging wrong for other reasons.  As such, they 
built a "fixer."  To run it we have to be sure no one is on the Office client 
or the web system
(which is effectively the same - which also shuts down the IP Gradebook.) Then 
we launch the client and run their "Lunch Fixer," found in the bottom of a menu 
in the Lunch module.  Running it remotely takes a long time. You will want to 
run it if
necessary on the same LAN as the Data directory.

We also see that often the breakfast deposits and charges won't post until one 
leaves the module to go to the District level, for example, then come back in 
to the building level.  Then data updates are there.

Back to number pads - same thing at our HS - fast.

However at our elementaries they wanted cards for a couple of reasons.  
Students might forget their number, etc.  For the most part teachers handle the 
cards until the kids go through the line, at which time the kids slide them 
through a reader.   

We leverage the cards as a way to take attendance in the Before & After school 
programs.  Who ever is left in one pile didn't attend; whoever is in the other 
pile not only attended, but got breakfast/snack.

We print all Elementary lunch cards in the fall off one card printer, then 
print singles as needed.  (Send an email to the card-printer lady, who pops the 
card into school mail and it gets there the next day.) 

Hope this helps, 

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] New job

[Steven Scarbrough]

Best of luck to you, Nancy!  I know you'll knock their socks off.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Fwd: Network Security & ZENworks Rapid Deployment-- Omaha Seminar

[Steven Scarbrough]

Anyone going to this?  The thing is -- one can keep Windows 200x servers and 
still do this stuff. Novell isn't servers so much anymore as it is management 
solutions.
-Steve Scarbrough
- Original Message -

Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:04:40 PM
Message
From:   "Melissa Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Network Security & ZENworks Rapid Deployment-- Omaha Seminar

I want to cordially invite you to attend the Network Security and ZENworks 
Rapid Deployment Seminars sponsored by one of our partners, Novacoast, on May 
5th in Omaha.  Please see the attached invites for details.  

 I highly recommend that you attend these seminars.  You will have the chance 
to learn how to save network administrators time while dramatically reducing 
total cost of ownership.

 Topics Include: 

 ZENworks RD

Universal Imaging, Application Distribution/Healing, Policy Management, Remote 
Control, Inventory, Patch Management, Quicker and Cheaper Migration to a New OS 

 Security

 Securing your network from internal threats and so-called "trusted-sources," 

 Policy Enforcement Methodologies for Regulatory Compliance

 Free continental breakfast will be provided.  Seating is limited so please 
register today at [ http://www.novacoast.com/seminars 
]www.novacoast.com/seminars.  Feel free to contact me directly if you have any 
questions.

Sincerely,

Melissa R. Gonzalez, CNS
Inside Sales Executive
Territory & Partner Business
800.453.1267 x15494 office
801.861.6317 fax
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[ http://www.novell.com ]www.novell.com

 Why Open Enterprise Server? Open Enterprise Server converges the expertise 
from commercial and open-source networking leaders to deliver the best 
knowledge-worker infrastructure, networking and application services 
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Re: [info-tech] 64 bit systems

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Friday, April 08, 2005 at 1:31 PM -0600 wrote:
>Has anyone been looking at purchasing systems based upon the new 64 bit 
>architecture?

Only servers.  We got a dual Opteron to grind through the processing for Citrix 
securely over the web at 64 -bit. We put SuSE Linux on it, because SuSE and Red 
Hat were the first two OSs to capitalize on 64-bit.   SuSE had a slightly newer 
kernel that
also nearly doubled the speed of the previous one.

I understand that the 64-bit update for Windows Server 2003 will be coming out 
shortly, but that for desktops we'll have to wait (longer) for Longhorn.

I think you're on the right track to consider newer hardware. Putting XP on old 
hardware is slw as it is.  If Longhorn's any bigger, oof!

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] SOHO

[Steven Scarbrough]

Many of use use SonicWall, some use the SOHO for outbuildings. Please note the 
message below if you have the SOHO.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101
-
 SonicWALL SOHO series Cross-Site Scripting and Script Injection - Apr
5, 2005

Description:
Oliver Karow has reported two vulnerabilities in SonicWALL SOHO series,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting and script insertion attacks.

a) Input passed in the URL path is not properly sanitised before being
returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable
site.

Example:
http://[host]/[code]

2b) Input passed to the username in the login page is not properly
sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary
HTML and script code, which will be executed in an administrator's
browser session in context of an affected site, when the malicious user
data is viewed in the logfile.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in SonicWall SOHO/10 firmware
5.1.7.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Source: Secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/14823/

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Re: [info-tech] Web site

[Steven Scarbrough]

At the risk of putting my foot in my mouth again...
--
To piggy-back on Lance's comments, check out these two options if you like free 
or cheap.

Free...
http://www.magnolia.info/en/community.html
http://ez.no/ez_publish/

Particularly note how easy it is to add accounts and publish pages from 
forms. (see screenshots) in these 2 Content Management Systems.
Runs on Mac or PC hardware, Mac, Linux, or Windows OS.
So with free Linux and free software you can get exactly what these 
services offer you.  Well, almost. But it's free.

Cheap...
Macromedia DreamWeaver - comes with CSS templates.  Get one copy for $50.49
Link it to Macromedia's Contribute.  $15.00/license (whoops - apparently it 
went up to $45.39)
Contribute locks in the users to limit editing to specific parts of the 
pages, more so specific styles (font, size, color, emphasis). It looks like a 
browser. As they find a page to edit, they click _edit_ and do so, then click 
_publish_.  Or NewPage,
to create a new page - a prompt comes up asking whether you want a link _to it_ 
from another page.
So with a one copy per building/department you can get fine-tuned 
editing.
This is what we use in Storm Lake. The single style keeps our site the same - 
for the most part.
Then we offer links to the Student Site for the Web Class or sites that opt for 
more autonomy. The front page of the site matches this way, which offers the 
"marketing presence:" a district-approved look and feel. The hard part is 
coming up with that
"district look."  Gets fast into personal taste, which will never satisfy 
everyone. We hired an artist who offered three flavors for choosing.

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101
http://www.slcsd.org

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Re: [info-tech] InfoTech Reporter Question

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Friday, March 04, 2005 at 2:32 PM -0600 wrote:
>What is Julius's email address so I can set up that accoun
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Re: [info-tech] Elementary Computer Lab

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 4:28 PM -0600 wrote:
>We are updating our EL. Comouter LAb this summer to emacs, finally getting rid 
>of the old 575 machines.  I am exploring new ideas for software.  I am looking 
>at TechKnowledge for the 3rd-6th grade and was wondering what you mac guys use 
>for K-2. 
>Currently we have CCC, the old 4. version.  Are there any other programs that 
>any of you recommend

No question - main advice: do only web-based programs. Keep it simple & browser 
based.

Currently we're just deploying AutoSkill's Reading (web). Some admin training 
is helpful, plus teacher training, obviously. We had some troubles with their 
Math (client-server) - need to continually refresh the deleted settings on the 
desktops.
Considering Netbooting to make that happen.
Rosetta Stone works okay client server, but needs a fair amount of bandwith, 
the admin is java-based, and the server is sql based.  Took lots of labor to 
get going, whereas the AutoSkill Reading deployment was very fast - point your 
browser to the link &
go.

We tried A+Learning Systems, and never did have much luck with it.
I hear we may recieve a grant of PLATO as well.  Requested in-house web-based.

Hope this helps,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] nt server meeting

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 at 2:56 PM -0600 wrote:
...
>Why can't aea8 ever get apple
 [ or microsoft/gateway/proxim/deepfreeze/netscreen/chancery/revtrack]
> to come
>to an AEA8  tech meeting 

Keeping in mind that Scott schedules what we ask for, I suspect that we need 
only ask.  As I made the list above I realized that we're quite blessed to hear 
from many vendors.

All power to George for offering to host a Windows meeting, but I'd hate to see 
us splinter. We have too much in common and so much to learn from each other.  
As you can see from the traffic, there's surely varied interests.

I wonder whether we couldn't schedule a Users' Group Day meeting at one of our 
regularly scheduled meetings.

Perhaps each hour we have a different topic: printing/accounting, Network OS, 
IPv6, routing, VLANs, ServerOS, etc.
At any gien time we could have a room with a specific topic, etc.

Wait - we have that.  It's called ITEC.  

But seriously, I'd propose we take a few minutes at this next meeting to talk 
about whether and if so, how to proceed with users' groups different from the 
tech meetings, or _at_ the tech meetings.

Perhaps a survey is in order.  What _do_ people want?  (I'd let you know my 
humble opinion, but I've been too verbose already.)

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Re: [info-tech] neat tools

[Steven Scarbrough]

George Tuttle wrote:
> 
>
>   Several of us using Microsoft’s products at different times have 
> talked about getting together and going over STUFF. 

Sounds like a Tech Coordinator's Meeting Agenda item to me.
I'd note that similar "users groups" might be beneficial. Consider JMC, for 
example.  Lots of users, lots of stuff that's unpublished.

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Re: [info-tech] switch(es) problem

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 11:11 AM -0600 wrote:
>Running MACS 
-
>either new eMacs or 5200's . . .  

Jackie, we use Allied-Telesyn a bunch here.  Occasionally they do get flaky 
with some NICs... which is not necessarily A-T or Apple, sometimes the 
auto-sense just doesn't.  (autosense.)

First try logging into the switch to hard-set the port at full-duplex and 10 or 
100, likely 10 if you're uplinking to a core switch at 100 up.  (That uplink 
port likely the only one to set at 100-full.)

On the OSX eMacs, you might find that on Network Settings you can go to TCP/IP 
settings, then click Advanced to set the speed/duplexing.  But the older 5100's 
are a bit tricker if on OS9.  Apple once had a 3rd party extension you could 
drop in to the
System/Extension folder that would do the equivalent of setting 
speed/duplexing.  You might try an Internet or Apple search. I'll do the same 
here, but it may have gone the way of phone-net adapters - no promises.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough
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Re: [info-tech] apple access points

[Steven Scarbrough]

We found that the only issue with doing wireless cross-platform was WEP.  
Windows and MacOS didn't like the same level of encryption, and the lowest 
common denominator was   But since then OSX and XP have both beefed up 
to IPSec, so one can
encrypt at a different level. Now if only the old machines on OS8/9, W98, etc., 
could be managed. 

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Star Schools

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 10:53 AM -0600 wrote:
> We tried for Star Schools grant - rejected for two years in a row.  Maybe our 
> 350 mhz lab makes us too far advanced with technology to qualify.

I can relate.  Our existing Mac LC 520s (!) - can't do java, so no web 
browsing, and can't run MS Office - not even AppleWorks 6! 

I'm hoping that the powers that be revise the grant rubric. Having received a 
grant at one site five years ago should not preclude one from convincing IPTV 
that 12 year old computers demonstrate a "need."

Slip-sliding in Storm Lake,  (gotta love freezing rain!)

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] AUP For Staff

[Steven Scarbrough]

info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us on Friday, December 31, 2004 at 8:03 AM -0600 wrote:
>As I am still new the public sector(keyword) as technical coordinator; what is 
>a AUP and what does it do for you?

Hi, Doug - looks like you and I are the only ones online today!

AUP is Acceptable Use Policy.  It is the over-arching policy - formal - needs 
to be "adopted" by the local school board - that outlines the use of the 
network. I have two - a normal one, and a cross-over one that brings in 
printing, copyright, the
website "ownership," etc.

Here's a link to mine - feel free to use pieces of it.  But I'd guess humboldt 
already has one laying around.  Just ask the board/supt. secty, if your 
district is like mine, she knows all.
http://www.slcsd.org/Tech/index.html  (click AUP)

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Negotiations

[Steven Scarbrough]

We've been using a "Negotiations" DOS program for some years.  It's the one by 
Jeff Sypersma.

Does anyone know of a good "other" negotiations calcualtor program, perphaps 
something in Excel?  (Not DOS)?

Jeff's working frantically with our Business Manager - they can't seem to get 
it to work right, so I'm asking for alternatives.

Ideas?

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
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Re: [info-tech] Fiber Question

[Steven Scarbrough]

George wrote:
>   If we have a copper wire through the interdict (cable pipe), our city 
> electrical utility can tone it and will locate for free.

Ah, the perks of being Mayor.  Our city offers no such deal, as this would be a 
new set of runs.  Or is it because I'm not the mayor?  

The city estimated about 2400 locates a year, with the preponderance in the 
summer - which makes sense - summer being home improvement time.

Julie, will you be able to capitalize on an overbuild, or will you lay your own?

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Re: [info-tech] Fiber Question

[Steven Scarbrough]

I'd be curious as well about a related question, as we're planning on putting 
in fiber as we build a new elementary in about thee years with the 1-cent sales 
tax...

How many fiber "locates" do you with fiber get per year - ballpark?  We're 
trying to keep an eye on related costs of fiber.  Here's what Great Plains 
Locating Service (GPLS) would charge us...

EXHIBIT A
SCHEDULE OF BILLING UNITS AND SERVICE AREA

Per Locate Performed by GPLS - $24.00 Per Locate
Per Regular Hours Emergency Performed - $24.00 Per Locate
Per After Hours Emergency Performed - $45.00 Per Hour (minimum 2 hours)
Project, Extended Locate - The Locate Price 
Extra Ordinary Project (for the first ½ Hour) Plus $45.00 Per Hour Thereafter 
(minimum ½ Hour)
Site Surveillance/Stand By Services - $45.00 Per Hour
Hourly Rate - $45.00 Per Hour

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Re: [info-tech] Fiber Question

[Steven Scarbrough]

Julie D. wrote:
>
>Question:  For the districts that have fiber to 
>
>connect buildings together, how much do you 
>
>pay per month and who is your provider?  
>
>What speed are you running over the fiber?
>
>What is the length of the fiber connection?

Originally Storm Lake paid McLeod  $100.00 / month / building  for 100 Mbs.  We 
ran that for about two years.  Because it was on McLeod's POP and it was leased 
to us, it qualified for E-Rate.

Then as PrairieWave bought McLeod's Storm Lake POP, they wanted 
$900.00/month/building.  (!)  They stated they could give us a break, dropping 
the price to $700.00/month/building if we locked in for five years.  

We dropped them and went to ZERO/month/building for 54 Mbs (wireless).  True 
throughput varies: 22 Mbs - 54 Mbs. 
(Thank you Star Schools Grants!) About $8,000/building inital setup.

Fiber was single-mode at the following distances (approximate) from their local 
Point of Presence...
1.5 km East Elem
2.0 km High School
2.5 Km North Elem
2.5 Km Administration
3.0 Km South Elem
5.0 Km West Elem
6.0 Km Middle School

Meantime, MediaCom has offered us a free cable modem for each site at 1.5 
Mbs... but then our Student Management System (JMC) won't work across the WAN.  
So we're likely going to purchase Citrix which will speed up that application's 
performance, whether
we're on wireless or a cablemodem/VPN.

Hope this helps,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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[info-tech] Accu-Scan

[Steven Scarbrough]

Hey, all!  We pulled our four Elementaries off Accu-Scan this year and have 
some equipment to move. Would anyone be interested in the "bowling bag" type 
card scanner/cashier's station?  We have five kits (one has an intermittent 
scanner, but is good for
parts), plus extra paper rolls and miscellaneous accessories as well.  If 
you're interested, make me an offer off-list.

Thanks,

Steve Scarbrough
Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
712.732.8100   fax:8101

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Re: [info-tech] memory

[Steven Scarbrough]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at 10:17 AM -0600 wrote:
>How do I upgrade memory on an application in OS X? 

If you mean reserve memory, one doesn't in OSX. It will use all automatically.

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Storm Lake Community School District
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Storm Lake, IA  50588
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Re: [info-tech] LaserWriter Bridge

[Steven Scarbrough]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 1:46 PM -0600 wrote:
>Does anyone have a laserwriter bridge that we may purchase.  

Yes, I believe we have two idle hardware bridges that span Ethernet and Appletalk.  
Please contact me off-list.

Thanks,

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] Perfigo.com

[Steven Scarbrough]

Those of you who heard Perfigo's presentation at the Okoboji meeting - I
could use some feedback.

1) Would you be interested in the product if the price were near
$2.00/student?  I've E-mailed Jerry Cochran re: state pricing - still
waiting to hear on that.   (No skin off my back - I've already purchased
Perfigo.)

2) In planning my wireless security presentation for ITEC - with Perfigo,
I wondered whether to do more generic stuff or let Perfigo run with it. 
What's the level of knowledge out there as far as WLAN security?   What
are people using?

Any thoughts or comments? Feel free to comment off-list.

Thanks,

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Re: [info-tech] RFID

[Steven Scarbrough]

sscarbrough wrote:
>
>And here we thought Wal-Mart was on the cutting edge, using RFID...
>
>http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-09-28-students-grade-teachers_x.htm

Now how did that get in there? Here's the right one...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-09-29-radio-schoolkids-japan_x.htm

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Storm Lake Community School District
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Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] RFID

[Steven Scarbrough]

And here we thought Wal-Mart was on the cutting edge, using RFID...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-09-28-students-grade-teachers_x.htm

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Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] Multiple Versions of Office

[Steven Scarbrough]

Here's one for the list:  Can we install and/or run multiple versions of
Office on a PC?

We have four different classes in one PC lab.  One class, a dual-credit
Iowa Central CC Intro to Computers course, can either upgrade twice (first
to Office XP for 0405, then to Office 2003 in 0506), or upgrade right to
Office 2003.  This is obviously our preference, to upgrade only once.

But the other courses have books that may be specific to Office 2000,
which is currently installed.  As expensive as books are, we're wondering
about Plan A: putting Office 2003 on the server, available only to
students in that course.  (Map the drive to the course OU, max count at 25
).   We'd obviously license two versions of Office, but at the state buy,
it may be cheaper than buying 4 new books x 30 students.

Possible?  Alternatives?   

Thanks in advance,

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] Fwd: Fake Word 2004 beta erases Home directories....

[Steven Scarbrough]

A word to the wise...
---
This appears to be a real concern.

Hope it helps,

Tony Morrow
Education Technology Partners
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
515-681-2527
=
>Everyone,
>
>With MS Office 2004 for the Mac starting to ship, there is a free, fake
>beta of Word 2004 floating about the net that once installed, erases your
>home directory.  Microsoft has neither a public Beta nor a free trial of
>Word 2004 available.
>
>You can find details here:
>
>http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=8664


Greg
Greg Asman
Educational Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

^^^
SOITA - Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association
150 East Sixth Street, Franklin, OH 45005
(937) 746-6333 or (800) 964-8211Fax: (937) 746-1029
www.soita.orgAffiliated with Miami University
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[info-tech] Versions & Fingerpointing

[Steven Scarbrough]

I've done some calling about why our Polycom won't "play well with
others."   Polycom says it's sonicwall, Sonicwall says it's polycom.  But
finally I got a Polycom guy who did some deeper research. He found that
Sonicwall uses H.323 versions 2 &3, whereas Polycom uses v.4.  Sonicwall
confirms this.

I've attached a document that might help. I'm game for trying to downgrade
my Polycom to v.3. Anyone else willing to give it a shot - likely someone
else who's having troubles with their Polycom over a Sonicwall?

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Polycom and Sonicwall.doc
Description: MS-Word document

[info-tech] JBODs

[Steven Scarbrough]

Re: tapesuck.com - or - Just A Bunch Of Disks (JBOD)...

FWIW, we have been running w/o tapes for about a month.  We backup all
sites to two backup servers, one on each side of town.  Disaster Recovery
thinking - it is unlikely that a tornado would hit both sides of town at
the same time.

Software
Each server holds one month's nightly full backups, driven by Veritas'
Backup Exec for Novell.  (Novell has unlimited server OS licensing.)  We
therefore just licensed the Veritas twice for servers, and once for each
remote server client, be it netware, windows, or linux.

Hardware:
Backups that used to take 10+ hours now take about one, max.  Restores
take about 30 seconds to launch the utility, 30 seconds to replace the
lost file(s). We considered SATA, but Netware doesn't do SATA, (yet), so
we ended up with IDE. 

The cost was...
200 gb hdd  x 2   = $260
P4 mobo  x 1   = $115
2.8 ghz CPU x 1   = $185
512mb DDRAM= $140
Rackmount case  = $230
CD-ROM  = $35
FDD  = $15
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   $980.00

We're liking this a lot - no more stressing about the backup window
shrinking, no more tapes; and now no more off-site backups - it's
automatic every night!

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Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Re: [info-tech] Question about Outlook Express

[Steven Scarbrough]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm using Outlook Express 6 and am changing computers.  PC to PC, Win 98
>to XP.  How do I move the address book as well as the Inbox items that I
>want to keep in the Inbox?

See this TID...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196492&Product=out2K


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[info-tech] Knoppix Iso

[Steven Scarbrough]

Here's the link to Terry William's website with a specific link for
Knoppix. This is the distribution that one can load into RAM and never
touch the HD, thus making a good "play in the sandbox" version...

http://neotekpc.com/knoppix.iso

Cheers,

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Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] Fwd: You are invited to attend a VMware Development and Test Seminar in a city ne

[Steven Scarbrough]

If you haven't seen this product yet, it's worth a look.  
$112.99 for the academic download version, specify the flavor of the host
machine: linux or Windows. 
It's for running two machines or more on one box...
-Like FileMakerPro and Apache, both on port 80 in production.
-Or reproduce your server environment to test an extended schema, or learn
programming - make a mistake? Click restart, and VMWare re-launches the
snapshot - it comes back to the same config as before.
-Or trying to get Linux to talk to Windows to talk to Netware, to talk to
Mac, etc.  

After today's session, consider a dual-boot vs. VMWare; both have
advantages.  VMWare is better for testing - no risk once you have a
snapshot made. If it doesn't work, just click restart. Whereas a goof on a
dual-boot might mean reloading the OS.

It doesn't look like the seminars below go to DesMoines, but this is too
cool a product to ignore, IMHO. Check out the website, vmware.com, buy
from Programmers' Paradise, http://www.pparadise.com
-SS

Thank you for visiting VMware.
We have exciting news about VMware Workstation and are inviting you to
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[info-tech] Linux Day

[Steven Scarbrough]

Good day!  I'm writing to give you more details for Thursday's Tech
Coordinator Meeting.   

1) 9:00 a.m. ICN Session
The SL-ICCC and SLHigh School share the same roof.  Drive to Storm Lake...
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?email=1&mapdat;

... and navigate to the back of the HS. (See map, attached.) Please note
that there is a class in the ICN room until 9.  Should you arrive early,
we can meet in the commons and wait.  There's a student coffee shop there
if you like.

2) If you have a spare machine, feel free to bring it with you to the
hands-on session later, across the street.  We will load a flavor of linux
(SuSE, RedHat, or Mandrake) and will attempt to network the machines.  If
you have an older Intel laptop, you may want to consider bringing it
instead of lugging a PC and monitor. If a desktop PC is all you have,
here's a site that shows "certified" hardware.  (I have found lots of
machines not listed on here that still work, FWIW. Ballpark it at P2 or
better, 128 MB, 2 Gb HD.  The better the machine, the better the
performance.)
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/

Note that if you have W2K installed already, most distributions will
install linux on the side, if there's room, making your machine a
dual-boot system.

Feel free to shoot me an email if you have questions. Though I'm no
expert, I have lined up one to be there Thursday.

Cheers,

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [info-tech] Urgent: E2T2 Info from ISU

[Steven Scarbrough]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>We have to bypass the entire system to be able
>to get onto the web site, which for us is unacceptable.

Ditto.  I was afraid it was just me.

FWIW, Dr. Phye has heard these concerns and _is_ listening, thus the new
server. He's (his team, rather, is) trying to do multiple instances of
webservers on the same box, thus the bizarre ports.  He suggests that with
the new server this issue will be resolved.  He says he will also be relay
our request for standard ports to other teams (ITAP & such) that use
strange server ports.

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Re: [info-tech] Linde's title

[Steven Scarbrough]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>At the AD meetings you get the greatest cheeseballs in Storm Lake.

I assume you mean the snack food. ;-)

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[info-tech] FileWave Free

[Steven Scarbrough]

For those with Macs, check this out...
http://www.filewave.com/products/ed_program.html

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Re: [info-tech] two issues

[Steven Scarbrough]

Jackie F. writes:
>1)  Web based/compatible calendar program.  
...
>Any ideas so we are not entering 
 
>it once in the office and then again for the web pages/having to update 
 
>both places as events are added/rescheduled?

Ah, the common struggle of every district - coordinating anything. 

To avoid dual entry, you would need to coordinate who is
entering/maintaining, and how.  Many email systems (Exchange, GroupWise,
FirstClass (can be mac based), can tie calendaring to the web.  With any
of these there is a learning curve to make it so and to ensure security -
some more so than others.  But because it's in the AD's email, it's
convenient and can go right to the web.

Alternately, one could do an AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) thing, such as George
has suggested.  There are mac versions, windows, etc. come easier to
implement than others.  George's appears to be pretty complete on an
inexpensive W2K PC.  With OSX you could likewise run AMP - and it's free
regardless of platform.

Last, you could consider your student information system - some have
upgrades that include calendars.  If yours doesn't, there are probably two
options: 
... if you're in the market for  a new SMS, choose one with this feature;
... or outsource to one of the free sports portal websites or other free
portal.  Then do an external link to that calendar from your existing
website. 

My $0.02 worth, 

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Re: [info-tech] two issues

[Steven Scarbrough]

Re: Word processing

Jackie,  re: Word Processing

If it's _just_ word processing, inexpensive PDAs with keyboards might be a
solution. There are a few ways  to go.  

-The basic PDA with IR and a keyboard ($100 + $100) could...
... print via IR (assuming your printer has IR - see the original HP_2100
on E-Bay)...
... or could sync to a computer and print (troublesome with many
students/machine)
... or could print via a "Net Extender" device
(http://www.tribeam.com/product.html)

-802.11b PDAs get more expensive, but obviously then can print via IP
(LPR) over your inexpensive WiFi.  Yet these begin to have advantages such
as saving to the fileserver.

-Dreamwriters and their ilk are still around.

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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Fwd: [info-tech] Looking for a Policy!

[Steven Scarbrough]

This is what we added to our AUP last year. After today at the SAI Law
conference, we'll likely add picture phones. Wasn't an issue a year ago.
Ah, technology.  Note that we chose "regulated" because one site wanted to
be much more restrictive than another.

Electronic Devices:
The use of electronic devices shall be regulated by the building
administrator or designee, or as per the student handbook(s). Devices
include, but are not restricted to: Cell phones, pagers, laser-pointers,
remote controls, personal music devices, games, Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs), handheld or laptop computing devices.  The building
administrator or designee must authorize personal electronic devices used
within or on school property.  Electronic devices must not interfere with
the educational process or normal network behavior. 

Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
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[info-tech] Fwd: Suse Acquisition final and...

[Steven Scarbrough]

I don't know whether you've followed the SCO thing with Linux, but in
short, after Novell sold "some parts" of UNIX to SCO, SCO turned around
this year and sued certain companies for infringement, particularly IBM,
but also most linux flavors.  Novell maintains that they never sold all of
UNIX to SCO.  Both companies are pursuing the thing in court.  Meantime,
Novell bought SuSE linux.  

While this announcement that the the deal is final isn't news anymore,
note the indemnification and the reference to IBM's support.  Interesting
stuff. I wonder where we will be in ten years.   Some say that MS is behind
the SCO thing to kill Linux; some say IBM is behind Novell to advance
Linux.  You gotta love a knock-down, drag-out fight. 
   
Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712.732.8100   fax:8101
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.storm-lake.k12.ia.us/~sscarbrough/
  
January 13, 2004

Attention valued Novell Customers

We are proud to announce that Novell today completed its acquisition of
SUSE LINUX, a combination that brings global technical support, consulting
and training services and industry-leading networking and security to
Linux, and provides a compelling alternative for companies wishing to
leverage the many benefits of open source. Novell now offers a full range
of enterprise solutions on the Linux platform, from the server to the
desktop. The closing of the $210 million cash deal also opens the door for
complyetion of the $50 million investment of IBM in Novell announced
November 4.

Novell today also announced it will offer its SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server
8 customers a new indemnification program designed to provide an
additional measure of protection against certain intellectual property
challenges to Linux.

With today's closing of Novell's acquisition of SUSE LINUX and the
addition of the SUSE LINUX distribution to Novell's product offerings,
Novell is now unique among Linux vendors in offering a full stack Linux
solution, providing global technical support for Linux, and, through its
new Novell Linux Indemnification Program, giving enterprise customers
additional reassurance about deploying Linux in their organizations.

Linux and open source solutions have grown rapidly in recent years, moving
from peripheral uses into more business critical functions. As enterprises
consider making strategic investments in Linux, they face the question of
indemnification, a standard component of most traditional proprietary
software offerings but generally unavailable for Linux. Novell's Linux
Indemnification Program will afford qualifying Novell Linux customers a
measure of protection against potential copyright infringement claims.

Novell's Linux Indemnification Program
Novell's indemnification program is designed for enterprise customers of
Linux. Under the program:

•   Indemnification is offered for copyright infringement claims made by
third parties against registered Novell customers who obtain SUSE LINUX
Enterprise Server 8 and who after January 13, 2004 obtain upgrade
protection and a qualifying technical support contract from Novell or a
participating Novell or SUSE LINUX channel partner.
 •  Customers must accept the program terms and conditions including caps
and other limitations.
 

Additional details on the program are available at [
http://www.novell.com/licensing/indemnity ]
http://www.novell.com/licensing/indemnity.

Novell's Unique Legal Rights
Novell also made available today additional information on the unique
contractual and intellectual property rights it holds because of its
position in the historical ownership chain of UNIX and UnixWare. These
rights include:

•   Novell's rights to license UNIX technology pursuant to a Technology
License Agreement between SCO and Novell, including Novell's right to
authorize its customers to use that UNIX technology in their internal
business operations.
 •  Novell's rights to take action on behalf of SCO under legacy UNIX SVRX
licenses pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement between SCO and Novell.
 •  As previously confirmed by Novell, copyright registrations on UNIX SVRX
releases, consistent with Novell's position that it retained ownership of
these copyrights.
 

Copies of relevant correspondence between Novell and SCO are available at
[ http://www.novell.com/licensing/indemnity/legal.html ]
http://www.novell.com/licensing/indemnity/legal.html. The rights reflected
in these documents are part of the foundation for the indemnification
program Novell is announcing today.

Special Program for Current Linux Users
For those enterprise users of Linux who are not currently Novell SUSE
LINUX customers, Novell will soon announce a special program whereby they
can become Novell SUSE LINUX customers and participate in the
indemnification program.

We believe our new Linux indemnification program, supported by our unique
legal rights, wil

[info-tech] Official Blaster Tool

[Steven Scarbrough]

Though most of you have probably seen this, here it is anyway...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70a0d8b-fe98-493f-ad76-bf673a38b4cf&displaylang=en

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[info-tech] Fwd: Insight Manager Road Show in Sioux Falls

[Steven Scarbrough]

On Wednesday, January 14, Hewlett Packard and Inter-Tel are presenting an
INSIGHT MANAGER ROAD SHOW at the Sioux Falls Radisson Encore Inn.

Following is a description of the presentation.
***
HP Systems Insight Manager - The Evolution of System Management

Live demonstration of the new release of HP Systems Insight Manager across
multiple hardware platforms. This demonstration will show the integration
of HP Systems Insight Manager, Top Tools and other management software.

See implementation of system management across Itanium, Proliant and blade
server architecture's using HP Systems Insight Manager, remote management
tools and rapid deployment of servers.

This is a technical demonstration designed for network administrators.


If you plan to attend, please sign-up online using the URL below.  


Sioux Falls, SD
Wednesday, January 14
1pm Radisson Encore Inn
Registration: 12:30-1:00
Demonstration: 1:00-3:30

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you,

Ron Douthit
Inter-Tel DataNet
3809 S. Western Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD.  57105
605-965-9524  Office Phone
605-366-8850  Mobile Phone
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