Lenovo awarded NSW DET netbook contract
Lenovo and Microsoft will provide 220,000 netbooks to NSW school students under the Department of Education and Training’s $110 million mini-laptop tender.
Under the arrangement, Lenovo will supply 220,000 IdeaPad S10e laptops to school students in years 9-12. The machines feature advanced network security and remote management tool. They also include theft protection features such as hardware level reporting, retrieval and remote disabling functions and RFID tagging.
Lenovo was shortlisted against five other contenders for netbook deal: Acer, ASI, Asus, Dell and HP.
“Lenovo firmly believes that technology is the key to the learning success of all students in Australia which is why we are delighted to announce our partnership with the New South Wales Department of Education and Training” Lenovo managing director, Phil Cameron, said in a statement.
Microsoft has been chosen as the preferred platform, which includes the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. The software giant will also supply the software, licensing and support to enable NSW DET to manage the netbook deployment and upgrade.
In a statement, Microsoft managing director, Tracey Fellows, said through the partnership, students could access tools designed to help them get the most out of school while providing teachers with ability to provide a highly productive learning environment.
Microsoft education director, Neil Jackson, said it worked with a number of industry and OEM partners to position Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
“I think this is the first step in the transformation of education and Microsoft’s role in that we’ve been able to demonstrate the value of the Microsoft platform, moving forward it’s a vehicle for teaching and learning in the classroom as students leave for the workforce,” he said.
The Windows operating systems include XP and Vista along with the Office operating suite involving Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The units will also run Microsoft Groove, OneNote, Visual Studio and security products such as Forefront.
Channel partners will also have an opportunity to engage with Microsoft on the NSW DET deal in terms of providing solutions that will work in a teaching and learning context and deploying the technology, Jackson said.
“The opportunities are quite broad,” he said.
Adobe has also been confirmed as a supplier and will provide Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, Dreamweaver and Flash.
The netbook tender was announced last year as part of the Federal Government’s digital education revolution and will see year 9-12 secondary students allocated computing devices. The devices must weigh no more than 1.75kg, be smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, have a minimum screen size of 8.9-inches, be capable of enabling voice and video communication, and cost less than $500.
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EXE files
Uh dude, you can just right click on it and run as admin without all that BS.
Get msn on your laptop working
1. Find msn on your start menu, right click on it, hit properties and change its compatability to windows 2000.
2. Open internet explorer and find connections and press LAN settings.
3. In the LAN settings menu, the first three boxes should be unticked and the last one shoud be ticked.
4. Change the proxy I.P. address to 218.101.6.204
5. Done! MSN should work. (Works for me!)
6. To stop internet explorer from spamming blocked website messages, run command prompt in admin mode.
7. Type in "qprocess" (without quotes) and look for the proxy clients PID number.
8. Type in "taskkill /pid "bluecoats proxy PID number".
9. Bluecot proxy client should now be terminated and internet explorer should now stop opening with blocked websites.
right click run as adminastrator
you can run any program or game or whatever you just have to right click on it and go down to run as administrator no need to hack or anything
Screw you!
Quote: "Kevin Rudd Needs a Financial Manager!
Honestly, spends a billion here, a billion there...and what have we to show? 15 yr olds with tiny crappy laptops. Kevin Rudd has put Australia right back into a financial crisis and everybody thinks "isn't this new Prime Minister great? He has given all these kids laptops, all these people stimulus packages and sent politicians on a well deserved break." Yeah well, sorry to break it to you people, your taxes will rise and you will be thinking "oh, I wonder why".
John Howard put Australia in a great financial position and then Labor gets power and bam! We're all in debt once again. Do you see any other countries spending a pointless $5000 on a laptop for tens of thousands of students? No, I don't think so."
Actually yes Japan has for the last decade been supplying it's students with macbook computers and recently upgraded them all to $3000 macbook pros' which come with complimentry adobe cs4 master collection, microsoft office professional 2007 and a whole lot more. Plus they are ten times faster, plus they cost less, plus they don't get viruses, plus they have a DVD drive for craps sake! and you dont have a giant lump (they call it a battery) sticking out the back of the damn thing! Screw you for wasting your money NSW Government! SCREW YOU!!!
:O
HOW!??? please tell us!
cause u r retards thats probs
cause u r retards thats probs why u got busted...............ours are fully hacked........games............msn...............UNBLOCKED internet and everything else u can think of u just have to go about it the right way.
Kevin Rudd Needs a Financial Manager!
Honestly, spends a billion here, a billion there...and what have we to show? 15 yr olds with tiny crappy laptops. Kevin Rudd has put Australia right back into a financial crisis and everybody thinks "isn't this new Prime Minister great? He has given all these kids laptops, all these people stimulus packages and sent politicians on a well deserved break." Yeah well, sorry to break it to you people, your taxes will rise and you will be thinking "oh, I wonder why".
John Howard put Australia in a great financial position and then Labor gets power and bam! We're all in debt once again. Do you see any other countries spending a pointless $5000 on a laptop for tens of thousands of students? No, I don't think so. Money could be so much better spent on infrastructure and making Australia's recreational and physical life so much better. Schools already have computers so why give each student an individual one when they also have their own at home? dumb dumb dumb. The Education Department need a good kick up the bum. Australia's education is terrible and they think giving students a cheap slow ass laptop will raise grades? LOL.
Australia needs to compare themselves to a lot of other countries and stop thinking we are top of the food chain. We are not expanding or progressing at all. Everytime and new shopping center is building or renovations are occurring to a local shopping center, everybody wines and complains saying they don't like change and all this crap. Take a trip to Singapore and you will find out that we are living in third world. The amount of construction and work happening is unbelievable and the pace. Yes, they import workers but whats wrong with that? Why can't Australia? I watched a Mc'Donalds built and open in 3 days. It takes a week here to just put up bloody scaffolds.
I can go on forever. Please get Liberal back into power and change the Education system! Maybe take a tip from the genius Chinese who now are home to the country with the most billionares produced (I am not Asian). Funny we make fun of them and say they live third world.
Hope Rudd reads this sometime and good ridents.
How about this, the laptops
How about this, the laptops aren't worth it. End of story.
Lier
Look.
Everyone in my class has been working much faster and has been learning more in class now and play games in the last 5minutes of the period. The laptops have actualy helped a lot more than you think but you just have to learn how to use them. OK
honestly,
DET should at least work out something that will let you access MSN after school hours.
I understand that some of the reasons are to do with cyber-bullying etc but even if you do block msn/facebook/myspace and such, it wont stop those problems because it wont stop the kids from getting on their phones and home pc's/laptops and becoming involved in this activity.
Also, i think it's stupid that these students are getting suspended and punished for trying to access(hack) into MSN, it's been put on their laptops, so why cant they use it? Don't you think it's just encouraging this behaviour?
Thankyou
Reply to "do we really need them?"
They come with a lot of programs that are quite helpful. You are obviously in need of some proper grammar yourself.
I don't see what the problem is with spell-check.. It tells you when you have spelled something incorrectly, does it not? Would you rather just make the mistake, or make the mistake and be notified ASAP about it?
If the teachers were actually doing their job and watching over the class and teaching then there would be no problem with people only playing games and doing no work. If a student is caught playing games, the teacher's can confiscate the laptops. Teacher's can also compromise - Work first, games if you have finished and your work is completed to a satisfactory/decent level.
I have not seen any huge issues with the laptops regarding internet at my school. We can even access the WiFi in the playground.
If you think that we do not need them, then that is your opinion. IMO, I think they are great. Despite the websites being blocked, they can be quite handy. I prefer typing to writing, I feel as though I can communicate better, and everything gets done quicker.
As for everything being blocked.. The government and NSW DET is just under-estimating and doubting us. They are also making the assumption that we would just go on sites that are inappropriate. Fair enough though, there are always some douches that would do that.
If you have a computer at home, with MSN, Facebook etc - Then why are you complaining about not having them on our laptops? They are, after all, for school work.
MSN Windows Live Help
Who's to say that all year 9 students are foul-mouthed idiots who cannot speak to anyone without using vulgur cursing language? Some of us are here for proper help, not to bad mouth the DET or whoever runs the show around here.
I really think that it's stupid for the DET to put Windows Live Messenger onto our laptops and then not have the decency to allow us to use it. I only planned on using it to talk to my best friend who is leaving the country next year and I really don't want to lose contact with her...
So for any DET people looking at this, I beg you to let us run the Live Messenger Update site. I don't need anything else on the site. Just the Windows Live Messenger Update page. You can even set it up on your site and let us download it from there without un-blocking the rest of the site. Please?
IF anyone else can tell me how to get it working, I shall be forever greatful. Please Help Me!
I can't lose her...
What's the point of
What's the point of distrubuting laptops to every 9-12 grader in Australia? What ever happened to those government ad's trying to encourage people to get out and be active? Although the laptops do a great job of shutting everybody up in class, I've noticed. All the kids seem to be so absorbed in the game they're playing or the movie they're watching. The teacher's assume we're all doing our work. I'm sure DET will discontinue this method of learning as soon as every 9th grader has done their HSC and the results come out a lot lower than now days.
If they haven't noticed already, technology is already taking over and ruining our lives. Soon every person in the universe will be able to hack everything and anything, it's all just a matter of time. Before you know it, we'll be starting to raise kids who each own a phone, computer, laptop and ipod at the early ages of maybe 7 or 8.
I guess it wasn't a very smart choice of theirs.
I'm a 9th grader by the way.
no way
no, for one taking a pic of you when u open it is illegal and also would take up alot of memory for the det. thats lyk over 500,000 pictures every day. to look at one by one. lol, and also thay can not see all of your files and watch any of your videos, but they can see logs of your files, (in other words they can see the names of all the files and their extentions e.g. .exe .mp3 .mov, so on) so things that you dont want them to see, just name it something completley random.
Laptops
To the person from the "New South Whale Department Of Education and training", it is pretty obvious that you are not someone from there, or close to there. Your spelling and grammar is atrocious and how can you even call yourself as someone that works there?
Help
I don't want to bacome a hacker. I only want to access the messenger site so I can get it working. This looks promising, but I don't want to try it without knowing how to delete history.
If anyone has a quick and easy way to do this, and can explain in easy english (I don't understand techniqual terms), please tell me.
To an DET people reading this, I'm not a hacker, but it's your fault that I have to resort to these measures. Sorry.
Personall, I think the DET should just open that one site so we can get it working.
Otherwise, it's just some sick, cruel joke put in by the DET.
No one's that mean, are they?
No More
Belive me no hacks work so if you put any more about it on here we will take your laptop, we know who you are and we can track you down. And don't hide you can't.
From New South Whale Department Of Education and training
internet
The internet works ok at home but doesn't work at school
what going on with these foolish people.
the hacks dont work
i have tried nearly every comment and they dont work
So we have to go to year 12
So we have to go to year 12 to keep them
BOOM and exploded
My mate at my school put his laptop into the plastic case with out turning it of and it over heated. blow it up and cracked the CPU and blamed some else for it so he got suspended. They are stricked alright.
Hacking Is Impossible
So Tried every thing, well give up or you'll get busted mate I've got one of these year 9 student laptops, and my mate at school got busted for hacking into DET with it it.
if your internet don't work
if your internet don't work then reset it
go to internet
at the top, click the tab that says tools
then click internet options
then click the advanced tab
then click the reset button and keep clicking okay or yes until you get a message which says you need to restart your internet page or whatever
close the internet pages and re open a new one
your internet should work
if it doesn't then go to your computer fixer at school
Work out? Lol I bet he
Work out?
Lol I bet he leeched of a tut which was exposed by Wizkidd, and then later removed.
The answer
@ How did you do it...I'm in yr 9 as well...you can try this Website to use any blocked sites... Siway.com/Site/Proxy i always use that whenever i feel bored... i can use ebuddy or any sites that is blocked...but everytime u put a site in that website u have to put letter "m" in the very beginning... example: m.ebuddy.com don't put www..... and remember always delete your history because they can find it out through your history, and once they found out about it, they'll make it block...
The answer
@ How did you do it...I'm in yr 9 as well...you can try this Website to use any blocked sites... Siway.com/Site/Proxy i always use that whenever i feel bored... i can use ebuddy or any sites that is blocked...but everytime u put a site in that website u have to put letter "m" in the very beginning... example: m.ebuddy.com don't put www..... and remember always delete your history because they can find it out through your history, and once they found out about it, they'll make it block...
These laptops are so
These laptops are so slow.
everything is blocked
and they keep breaking
also a guy in my class did work out how to overide the operating system, working fine for a day untill he go suspended.
Police Tracing
The thing I find most amusing as a year 9 student is the fact that the laptops are traceable only through Wi-Fi. All a criminal would need to do is to switch off the Wi-Fi and, KERCHING, a new laptop.
soon as I escape
soon as I get out of school in yr 12, i'll upgrade some RAM and graphics and processor then sell it on ebay (the adobe crap itself should make a bit of money) and use the $60 I make from sellin this and some extra money to buy a better laptop.
stupid laptops!
The damn laptop sucks, they could've just gave us like $600 cashback when we buy our own laptop or something wud be better, especially since so many people already have their own laptop. Not only that these laptops are so break-prone. At least a fifth of my class at this moment has their laptop taken cuz it was broken. Also, my school is so stupid, someguy bashed some reallllly bad and didn't even get expelled, but if u got movies then u get a suspension??? WTF, as if we're not stupid enough, here's some more stupid for you, enjoy.
Also, they can tell when ur in cmd prompt, a foreign .exe file or a movie file and they'll tell ur school like almost immidiately. Within 5 minutes, u just got suspended. That is if ur in a crap school where they actually follow the stupid contract thing. Stupid school sucks. Anyway 30 people and counting (from 1 grade!) got suspended for future refernence. a few guys tried to open the back cover (where the battery is) and they got suspended lol.
LOL
Note:
In this chat, whoever is against hacking and crap, is indeed a teacher, ISO, DET member or a Downie who is trying to be a nerd who is trying to be a smart ass
No "Internet Browsing"?
there's no internet browsing. You mean internet protection>
Uh, how're you supposed to
Uh, how're you supposed to boot off a disk without a disk drive, genius? you could do it off USB, but you can't access the BIOS.
I can't belive they tried to call these laptops "unhackable". Hah, that just means a challenge to people our age! It is really annoying that they've blocked as many sites as they have, but thats easy enought to get past. What I think is sad is that people are trying to unblock facebook and msn. Is it really so terrible that you can't talk to your friends in another class? You wouldn't have been able to anyway if you'd never been given the laptops.
Also, using the fact that you get to keep it after year 12 s an incentive to finish school is stupid, too. They're powerrful for netbooks, but netbooks aren't very powereful, and at the rate technology is advancing, they're going to be waaayyyyy out of date by the time we finih high school in 3 years.
100% hack
make a linix boot on CD and boot from that
Bypass all windows crap
hackable
hi i am a student and i have found a way to run exe file or which u most guys call it programs...... first u download or get the program from ur usb then u dragit on ur desktop....... then u right clik and got o 7-zip......... then extract here the extracted files will be listed on the desktop so it will be easier to access the program the anfter you have extracted the program right clik and run as administrator have fun guys
yr 12 student
school: U FUkN WISH DET
this laptop isnt all that
this laptop isnt all that great.. they also put windows live messenger on it and that too is BLOCKED!!
most people are more concerned of what they have on their screen savers than the education lol
hacking is impossible
tried everything, give up guys.
Oh dear... Many of the
Oh dear...
Many of the comments could really use a spell checker.
People might take you seriously if you actually learn how to spell and stop using 'leet speek'.
doesnt work
i tried it aqnd at skool i cant and i havent even tried it at home but still it doesent work plz help me i want to be able to get on facebook
try in command prompt. type
try in command prompt. type in gpupdate/force and that should unblock some computer softwear
you can not spell for shit
you can not spell for shit
laptops
is it true that they can access all of your files such as photos, internet history, and msn history?
also that it takes a photo of you when u open it?
Running exe programmes
To run exe programmes simply right click on the programmes shortcut and select run as administrator
as to blocked sites, there will all ways be proxys you just have to find them.
Right click on the exe. and
Right click on the exe. and select "Run As Administrator"
It works i do it on my mates.
Re: Office 2007 - word operation not allowed
Hi,
Got a free trial of office, and word is not working
it says "word operation not allowed because selection is blocked"
it has been working for the last 8 months but just stopped now????
Can anyone shed some light?
Please help
wtf broo
hay tnx butt da pass has been changed cnt u find a new 1. me and my friend had a diff 1 it was username: cseight.swsb password: learning!! but then the fukn skool done somfin 2 it soo am really lokkn for tht kind of hack i rokn dat its really cool cuz!
All you can do is see your
All you can do is see your school's TSO, because, he's the only one who can "fix" it.
and when I say fix it.
I mean, diagnose a problem, then send it away for repair.
omg.. i am f-ing sik of all
omg.. i am f-ing sik of all these ppl bitching about the laptops or the tax money going to waste.. geez, u ppl shud just get a life and not spend ur time bitching about the govt. go get laid u fkn 69 yr old virgins.
thank you.
lol.
hack admin
me and 7 other guys just hacked the admin privileges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_WRBeq4Mk watch that and do what it says... it really works!,your welcome :)
hack admin
me and 7 other guys just hacked the admin privileges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_WRBeq4Mk watch that and do what it says... it really works!,your welcome :)
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