I am just tired of listening to Mac heads make up wild stories. Paying $5k for a laptop that is a Mac when a top of the line laptop workstation goes for well under $4k. On top of that being forced to have staff that spend 25% of their time fixing things that if the user had gone with a Windows machine would not be problems. Walk in my shoes and then decide if punishing a Mac user like that is or is not therapeutic. At least they have a reason for crashing monitoring systems instead of telling me they do not have SNMP running on their Mac or having to purchase a bunch of USB drives because the user can't get FTP to function on a Mac.
Jon On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you're saying when a new hire comes in with the preference of a Mac, > your first move is to put them on a long ago EOL operating system which had > no security to begin with, to which they are completely unfamiliar with, and > wait to see what happens after 30 days? And you have a person who spends 10 > hours a week fixing alleged problems with a single Mac (you said user, not > users) being on the network? I thought you were kidding in your first email > but here is the second. You're doing something wrong guy. > > > > Putting them on an XP machine would kill you? Or possibly just spending a > couple days learning something new is out of the question? And don't tell me > you don't have the time if you're honest about rebuilding computers with > Win9x on them. If you have time to do that you have time to learn something > new. > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, May 23, 2008 9:39 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Mac on 2003 Domain > > > > I don't want my Mac user RDPing into anything. He is a big enough issue I > don't need servers crashing because of his need to use a Mac. We have one > person on staff that spends about 25% of his time just fixing the files that > "work just great on the Mac" but will not work right on a Windows system. > My boss is fully aware of this and just smiles when the Mac user makes wild > claims and moans about no one supporting Macs. > > > > Like I said put them on a Windows 98 system and make them prove they can > run it before spending the money on a Mac. Ours could not run the Windows > 98 system for more than 30 days before we had to rebuild it. > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
