Firstly, they changed all user accounts’ all files from being on separate computers to being on servers only. Now it takes 10 minutes to log in if more than 5 people are trying to do it at once. It was bad before with just the account info being on the school’s servers, but now they have moved it all there.

This… isn’t the most annoying thing. To print, you have to put cash on your national ID card, and then you have to pay with it to print. Which is annoying, since it takes a long time and is more trouble than gain.

Also, as of today, they have info-kiosks in the school library and printing room. Which wouldn’t be too bad, except they have so many security holes in them I wanted to scream…
The main problem is, that if you press the “back” button enough times, you may see other students’ grades if they had used it before you. This is a HUGE security flaw in a public info kiosk.

The touchscreens are unresponsive. I mean, you have to be a world-class professional boxer to use it properly.

And then you can only use the school’s site on it. Although, I reckon I could get past it by plugging in a separate keyboard and mouse via a USB hub to the lonely USB port on the side of it and then trying out a couple of things.
They use a special taskbar and a special start menu and a special browser that doesn’t allow it to be exited, ever.

And then they use Vista, although they don’t need to… Surely Linux would be a better choice for such a machine? After all it’s not a resource hog like Vista is. And they don’t even use all of the features of Vista. In fact, they don’t even use ONE! Unless you call limited unsecured web browsing a feature.

IT Department? More like FAIL department.

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