Welcome to the real world. If it's easier to put together a sub-standard application using Windows or doing some extra work to make it cross-platform compatible, guess which way it'll be done.
I gotta deal with that kind of thinking all day at the office. In fact, our IT guy told me that he had "gone out of his way to make sure our network is not Mac usable." In the meantime, I can't do some of the simplest things without an hour of mucking around looking for instructions and setting preferences. For instance, we have to access a web-based scheduling list that only works with Explorer, so I tried to put a shortcut to that web address on the desktop. Since I have Firefox as my default browser, it will automatically open my shortcut. And there's no "Open With" command to make it open with IE, so I have to have an IE shortcut instead. And don't even ask about searching. Doing a search for a file last week literally took 20 minutes. I'm assuming there's some shortcut, but look how easy and fast it is to search with OSX. I could go on about setting startup items, opening and creating new folders, window behaviour and memory leakage, but it's just too frustrating. A lot of times I just email stuff home and work on it here, where I can actually get things done. I got an interesting email last week, it was some humorous cartoon, but the subject of the messag was "Life Without An IT Guy." I responded with a note that said: "Oh, I thought you were talking about a Mac network." rob Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > <rant> > I went to see if I could listen to UofL's exhibition game over the > web, got stuck at CSTV.com's "help" for Mac users page, where they > have the following lazy-butt advice: > > "Though we understand that there are passionate college sports fans > within the Macintosh user community, we are currently unable to > support OS X. Though there are currently no solutions for viewing All > Access in OS X, Apple has released a public beta of "Boot Camp" which > is built to more easily allow Mac users to install and run Windows XP > on an Intel-based Apple computer. Apple will include this technology > standard in their soon to be released OS X, Leopard. For right now, > this software can be downloaded through the following link provided > by Apple." > > What a lame excuse. "We use M$ because we don't know anything else." > </rant> > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 26 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
