I can't agree with the passivity implied by the various Mac
respondents. The campus is not "Windows-dominated" - it is a Windows
majority. A majority almost never properly attends to the real needs of a
minority even if it sincerely tries to. Real cross-platform expertise is
rare in any case.
Whenever you get wind of something afoot on campus, jump into it. There is
no need to be invited! You may not succeed if you do but you certainly
will not succeed if you do not. The main difficulty here is lack of staff
time to pursue such issues, but that is also a reason why majority staff
does not get around to checking with a minority. You may decide that other
priorities preempt but please then do not complain that you were not taken
care of.
None of this absolves campus-wide groups of neglecting to persistently
consult and test with all relevant platforms, but in a busy world of
conflicting priorities and resource limitations none dare stand-by and wait.
Greg Small, Retired On a network, paranoia is
Security Infrastructure Project just good thinking!
Workstation Software Support WSS/IST Systems Programmer for 36
University of California at Berkeley years and it's still fun!
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The opinions or statements expressed herein should not be taken as
a position or endorsement of the University of California or of Workstation
Support Services. After all, I am retired :-).
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>At 06:16 PM 6/23/2004, Mark Ingles wrote:
>The tendency on campus, with Windows-dominated thinking, is to assume that
>Macs have the same 2-3% presence as the outer world. This translates into
>ignoring them like the Campus AD did last month with the NTLMv1 abatement.
>They didn't test how NTLMv2 would affect Mac connectivity with Windows
>shares until after the change took place and people complained that they
>couldn't connect. There would be more tech cohesion on campus, and more
>user productivity, if Windows admin folks took Macs more seriously. As
>Michael Sinatra pointed out in July 2003 (see message below), 15% of
>campus is using a Mac.
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