(May 20, 2012 at 2:04 pm)SavageNerdz Wrote: The school i go to is rather small so i can somewhat understand the single admin. For some reason our school still has multiple OS's, and i'm not sure how they obtain them. I guess they buy them cheaply, as they are always out of date by a couple of years. Now you can't really blame a school for trying to do it cheaply, except our teacher's salaries are higher than that of the local colleges by almost double. >_>
Ah, the internet. A place where I can hear a someone whine about being exposed to a myriad set of OS's and hardware. Be grateful you have the opportunity to mess with them without needing to buy/pirate them.
A true multi-OS (not old versions of windows or a single OS) ecosystem is the most healthy and stable if set up properly and kept within certain constraints.
In any case, it sounds like your school has forced their IT to acquire systems as they go, and probably second hand ones at that. Cheap.
Still, I can easily imagine how to set up a stable, segmented network while using old/varying technology using subnetting, gateways and vlans.
You guys are cheap on your IT. Reap what you sow.
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