> Walk in my shoes and then decide if punishing a Mac user like that is or is not therapeutic.
Sir, I would kindly suggest that if you have an adversarial relationship with your users, where you look at punishment and reward as a means for governing your userbase and as therapy, that you might be better served: a) getting a real therapist b) changing careers Cheers, - Durf On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >> >> > -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
