Celeron M question 168
.all we've read is that the computers have to have their own AV program on there, a firewall, they haven't been specific as to what OS it has to be and has to have IE on there, that's about it.......they start in 3 1-2 weeks so I have just a short time left to get the computer ready to go....... -- Cyndi Cyndi, I saw that too, at some of the universities I checked.
Another thing that I saw, it seems that many universities may, and probably will run, an antivirus-spyware program from their system onto the student's PC, on a regular basis, when they are connected. And if it finds either viruses or malware, it will block access to the student's computer to their system, until you get the problem fixed. And some will even charge an additional reconnection fee, after they clean out their PC, of any problems.
1) Are you running Windows XP? 2) You'll be looking for PC800 45 or 40ns RDRAM in a matched...
The parents of college students, should make sure that their children follow the rules about the college's internet access policies, or Mom-Dad will be getting a huge bill from the college, or the RIAA.
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Rich-rerat
and, to add one further on to that, the university my son is going to next year has requested (and I don't know how strong that request is until I call) that they put a "specific" wireless card in their computers to hook up with their wireless system there on campus. They say that they can help if you have their hardware in but are not responsible if you don't. -- Cyndi Patrick, Actually many colleges due require that you join their domain.
See the following for the Univ of Mich page 17:
From another college, Pace University of New York:
a.. Pace Strongly recommends that any student planning to connect to the Pace network buy their systems with either Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional as their operating system.
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Samsung's Spinpoint series of hard drives are considered to be *the* quietest hard drives on the market. If I was to buy a hard drive, I'd go for Seagate or Samsung...
Rich-rerat
RRRNews I cannot think of a reason why a college student would actually need XP Pro installed. XP Pro gives them the ability to join a Windows Active Directory domain, however no college is going to be running a domain for the students to be a member of.
Windows XP home can pull an IP and access the network just fine. It just cannot join a domain. This should NOT be an issue.