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Can school network admins see how many pages I'm printing?

I attend a US university that provides us with free printing in our dorm building. In order to use it, we download a software called "Pharos" and once installed, the school's printer shows up in our computer's print dialog just as a normal printer would. When we send the file to print, a pop-up from Pharos appears where we enter our NetID/username. We then physically go to the room where the printer is located and log in to the Pharos software client via a desktop that is connected to the printer. Once logged in, I can see a list of print jobs that I sent to the printer and I can double-click and release the jobs and the printer will print them out. Although we don't have a printing quota, can school admins see what I am printing and see how many pages I have printed? I am logged into the school's wifi network when we send our files to print. Thanks. Acceptable (talk) 01:44, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it would be very easy for the admins to see what and how much you have been printing. From personal admin experience however, admins are exceedingly unlikely to bother looking unless they have a reason or request to do so, like if you've been caught breaking some other IT policy, or you appear on the "top users" list. Of course, your particular circumstance could be very different to my experience, it's not impossible that ALL the printouts are audited, or randomly audited, or even that software "checks" the prints for various things, like people printing photos, or downloaded PDFs that might be copyright protected, or other things deemeed not "appropriate" then flagging them for review by admins. Vespine (talk) 03:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions for notes .

I am a teacher. I am teaching computer science to the students. I require certain notes on computers. I searched on www.vtu.us but I didn’t get any information on that site so that, please suggest me some another sites for referring to that has computer science notes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 08:14, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I can imagine that English is not your first language. By “notes on computer” do you mean Error messages?--Aspro (talk) 13:32, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

No, I don't think he/she means 'suggestion for error messages'. By the way, there is a site called Wikipedia that might help you. --LewisMCYoutube (talk) 09:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

If you want your students to take notes on their computers, in the sense of note-taking, then see Comparison_of_notetaking_software. SemanticMantis (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

What he means is that he requires notes on the subject of computers, which he will refer to while teaching his students. And to the OP: you do know that Googling any question you might have will almost always lead you to websites that contain the answers, right? There is no sparknotes equivalent for computer science students I'm afraid. You'll just have to make your own notes yourself. Better still, make the class an interactive session so that the learning can be bidirectional. 124.123.160.189 (talk) 10:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

suggestion about career .

I am student of computer technology. I required suggestion about further career for that I see www.vtu.us but don’t get any useful information. So hopefully I will get response ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 08:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

guideline about future study .

I am student of 12th science. Now I want a suggestion about future study. I accessed www.vtu.us site and I didn't get enough information. So suggest me some more information sites? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 08:56, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

suggestion for career oportunity .

My brother has just given 12th examination, he want to do career in civil engineering. So that, I search on www.vtu.us but I didn’t get useful information from this site .can anybody suggest regarding carrier opportunity in BE stream? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 09:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

suggestion for required notes .

I am student of Mumbai university , I am perceiving BE in IT stream .I required question paper of 8th semester . I search on www.vtu.us but didn’t get any information from this sites . So, i request to suggest me any other educational sites . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 09:12, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

suggestion for changing major .

I am student of Bsc( cbz) . But I want to change my majors .I want do carrer in computer science engineering . I search certain information on www.vtu.us but I didn’t get related information .so please suggest me regarding my carrier opportunity ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 09:19, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Does this help? The Linux Career Guide --Aspro (talk) 13:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

suggestion for using operating system .

I am student of computer technology and now i want to used linux opreating system.i search on www.vtu.us but didn't get sufficient information .so anybody suggest me regarding how to study linux operating System ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 09:24, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

If you are a student of computer technology, then there is no better way than to undertake a course of study where you receive a recognize Linux Certification at the end – which career-wise is really useful. See:Linux Certification for more info.--Aspro (talk) 13:00, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

@Chetnagautam: The first thing I would do is to choose a user-friendly Linux distribution to experiment with (see also comparison of Linux distributions).

The distribution will determine your entire user experience -- what it looks like, how you interface with it, how often it crashes, who's around to help if something goes wrong, etc. Ubuntu is the most popular (last I checked) and a pretty good one to learn with. Its GUI is more user-friendly than many others, it's frequently updated, and relatively stable. Also -- and this is really important -- there's a large, active community of users typically willing to help newbies. Using it will take some getting used to, but there's no substitute for diving in. If you're going into a computer/tech-related field, you'll eventually want to explore the shell -- the command line interface rather than the graphical user interface. That's where it gets a little trickier (but better!). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:26, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Ah, one more thing. You may want to choose a distribution that can be booted via a live USB (or live CD). That will make it so you don't have to replace your current operating system. Instead, you configure a thumb drive or CD-R to boot Linux without actually changing your current configuration. I know Ubuntu can do that but not sure of which others. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:29, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

All Linux operating systems are capable of running from a CD/USB drive. --LewisMCYoutube (talk) 10:02, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Or run it in a virtual machine. VirtualBox is quite good, and free. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:29, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

who will explain this question answer  ?

What is mean by open source system ? i refer www.vtu.us but i didn't get any information . can anyone suggest me how to get answer more specifically ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chetnagautam (talk • contribs) 09:37, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

We have an article explaining that: Open-source software.--Aspro (talk) 13:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

An open source operating system is a operating system, normally free, that allows you to view and modify the code at will, and distribute your changes to the public (sometimes even allowing you to sell it!). --LewisMCYoutube (talk) 10:05, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Update on Chrome

Referring to this question, which is a follow-up to this question, I couldn't get on either computer to test what was going on. The one I was on when I asked the second question is occupied, and must surely have been fixed by now if they knew a fix was needed. The computer I was on when I asked the first question is "unavailable". So apparently that means they know there's a problem that needs fixing.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 13:19, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

The computer I was on for the second question was available. Chrome is working fine. The other one is still out of order.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)