[LINK] Bring your Own Device

[Michael]

On 7 May 2014 09:37, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:

> At 09:11 AM 7/05/2014, Tom Worthington you wrote:
> >They wanted to turn the old Netbooks into Chromebooks
> >(which sounds a reasonable idea to me), but have yet to track down the
> >code needed to unlock the BIOS to change the OS.
>
> I don't understand that. Do Chromebooks use a specific bios setting
> instead of just installing the operating system for booting like
> linux or Windows? I have my netbook set up as dual boot with both
> Windows and Ubuntu. (Thanks Brenda).
>
> Jan
>

The Lenovo netbooks supplied in NSW were bios password protected centrally
to stop kids changing stuff and to maintain a single standard OS image. I
don't know if each device had a different password, or who has access to
them now, but I believe they were administered centrally, at least to begin
with.
I am guessing other states operated similarly.

Regards,
Michael Skeggs





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