Knowing Just Enough to Be Dangerous

The University where I teach offers several different IT degrees. However, since many of the students have little or no prior computer experience before coming here, many of them are learning for the first time. Some do know more about computers, but since they're mostly self-taught or informally taught they may not have the best understanding of everything they're doing.

What this has meant, as I discover every time I do maintenance on PCs in the lab, is that there are a whole lot of students here who know just enough to wreak havoc but not enough to fix the damage they've caused.

And to make matters worse, last year all of them had the Administrator password. So much for security. Ugh. Hopefully we can keep a lid on the new password this year.