While at Summer Conference this year, I was surprised to hear quite a few of my colleagues asking for advice on how to lock down their labs to prevent students from doing some of the things they shouldn't be doing.

While I work in a large school system, locking down the labs is not a problem that I have. In some cases I actually have to be a little creative in finding ways to work with the security and procedures that my school system has put in place. But, while surfing around today, I found a really nice "Cookbook" from the The Maintain IT Project that might be helpful.

In particular, I'd say that the chapter on Meat and Potato Public Computers could be very useful to help those who might need it. I wish I'd seen this when others were asking about it...