On Tuesday 02 December 2003 00:21, ICT Support Officer wrote:
My original post about how taxpayers' money is wasted brought about a good response and I am so pleased. There has been so many of you with strong hearts and most of all strong voice except for a minor few.
I would also like to mention LEA and their inefficiency providing support to schools in terms of so called ICT. No doubt many of you are aware that National grid for learning has been brought about and we seem to have some compulsory broadband connections forced upon us. So far I found the system unworkable because there are private companies involved. For example I wanted to run the school web server from school but the ISP will not provide a public IP address for the school. They also seem reluctant to re-root requests through their DNS to the private IP range they allocated for us in order to access school servers on any port. I proposed to my school management but LEA IT department gave us a bashful
I could go on but my point here is that it is not just Open Source software issue but other services too. Again we pay thousands of pounds for these services but we do not get back all the services we want. !!!Wasting the tax payers money issue here again!!!!
This is exactly what we have done with our broadband supplier. There was some murmerings about unsupported protocols (open ssh !!) but in the end they gave us two IP addresses re-routed to our internal range. Since we are paying for these services I believe that you can go elsewhere for them :-) regards garry