Re: Call for education help [was Re:Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Hello]]

[MJ Ray]

Chris Howells <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 5:23 pm, Richard Smedley wrote:
>> I presume ICT here means teaching Excel and MS Word :-(
> Don't forget VB, Access, and VBA scripting ;)

Hrm, I don't see this being taught in the FE sector.  Is it really being
taught at schools now?  Bizarre.

> Basically the conclusion that I came up with was to use some kind of GNU
> cfengine based scheme to easily allow admins to roll out changes in system
> configuration to all the machines.

cfengine is a nice idea, but not one I have got to work reliably enough in
an education setting to stop me rolling my own solutions.  Anyone else have
more (pref better) experience with it?