On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Chances are he does not want a challenge to his knowledge that his
boss may
become aware of. It may cast him in a bad light.
I doubt it.
Never forget: "only drug users and hippies use a Mac" (I know it's a
humorous line by Dave Barry, but, unfortunately, it seems all too
often to be the real attitude among many IT groups.) so it's likely he
and his boss will get a chuckle out of punching the Mac hippie.
Bullies get off on that, and sadly, the IT support world is rife with
bullies.
Or they are, in fact, abysmally ignorant.
Or both.
I mean there is the enormously widespread and ingrained *total lie*
that Macs, even though they're immune can somehow 'pass on viruses' to
users with Windows. I've seen this nonsense published places like
MacWorld (which immediately knocks down their credibility in my eyes)
You can't do this unless you willfully and deliberately send a virus
to a Windows user, who should be up to date on their defenses anyway,
because if they're not, anything you send them will not make it
through the mass of digital boils that already cover the system...
Hell "School IT" people have had kids arrested for using Linux because
" they were using a hacker tool" (ie: a terminal window).
Maybe they're just burned out and No is the only response.
(The IT folks in my local school district fought for *months* against
a virus infection of the districts Windows systems, last year. Among
the cures was finally dumping Windows 98 and Windows NT4 from their
systems. A friend who runs systems in a research lab has ONE Windows
NT system, it's is walled off in it's own little vlan with no contact
to the outside world because we can't apply the last service packs,
because the $200K instrument it's attached to won't work with anything
newer, or at least it won't without about a $20K upgrade by the
manufacturer.)
--
Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD
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