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What happens when you have no network connection? About 50% of my administrative tasks (documentation and architecture) are entirely offline tasks? My kids ca

What happens when you have no network connection? About 50% of my administrative tasks (documentation and architecture) are entirely offline tasks? My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy.

ori_b 13y ago
> What happens when you have no network connection? I wait until the end of my commute, and then use the network there. All places I work form have internet access.
- harrytuttle 13y ago
  Unless the connection is broken and you need to fix it and your technical contacts are on Google contacts of course...
  - ori_b 13y ago
    Then use the offline mode built into ChromeOS: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?hl=en https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?hl=en
spankalee 13y ago
I'm not sure what kind of system and network admin you can do with no network, but presumably that'd be a problem with any other computer. For offline tasks, use offline apps, like Google Docs.
jervisfm 13y ago
> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy. In my experience, I find that regardless of policy, windows computers are more likely to break down at one point or another. Curious though, what do you do different to mitigate that inevitability?
- harrytuttle 13y ago
  Well two mitigations: 1. Secure by default. The default windows configuration is not secure by default - it's a compromise that is used to make it usable for people. You can (with Group Policy) lock the machine down heavily then allow things as they are required. I do this. 2. Good hardware. They have a Dell Precision T3500 rather than some shitty disposable piece of crap. I expect this will last around 8-10 years. Windows is perfectly fine if you understand it. We have 377 Windows machines and 205 Linux machines in total. Reliability statistics are approximately the same. The only issues we get is with hardware packing in occasionally (usually the HP mid-range stuff and their laptops).

ori_b 13y ago

> What happens when you have no network connection? I wait until the end of my commute, and then use the network there. All places I work form have internet access.

harrytuttle 13y ago
Unless the connection is broken and you need to fix it and your technical contacts are on Google contacts of course...
- ori_b 13y ago
  Then use the offline mode built into ChromeOS: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?hl=en https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?hl=en

spankalee 13y ago

I'm not sure what kind of system and network admin you can do with no network, but presumably that'd be a problem with any other computer. For offline tasks, use offline apps, like Google Docs.

jervisfm 13y ago

> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy. In my experience, I find that regardless of policy, windows computers are more likely to break down at one point or another. Curious though, what do you do different to mitigate that inevitability?

harrytuttle 13y ago
Well two mitigations: 1. Secure by default. The default windows configuration is not secure by default - it's a compromise that is used to make it usable for people. You can (with Group Policy) lock the machine down heavily then allow things as they are required. I do this. 2. Good hardware. They have a Dell Precision T3500 rather than some shitty disposable piece of crap. I expect this will last around 8-10 years. Windows is perfectly fine if you understand it. We have 377 Windows machines and 205 Linux machines in total. Reliability statistics are approximately the same. The only issues we get is with hardware packing in occasionally (usually the HP mid-range stuff and their laptops).