On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:40 , Mark Roberts wrote:
CheekyGeek wrote:
As an IT person in the business world...
There you go.
Windows?PCs provide IT people with a great deal of job security by
creating a heck of a lot of more confused & discombobulated users and
hardware support issues.
I use both Windows and Mac machines, at home and at the college where
I teach. I find Bill's summary pretty much on the money. And the IT
people at school *still* haven't been able to make the Mac I use there
let me log on without a hardware re-start or make it recognize the
Canon scanner through Photoshop. Seems they're getting very good job
security through problematic Macs and less from the (trouble-free)
Windows machines I use.
Hold on there buster!
I ran into the same problematic tome when I was hired on by NBBJ
(Seattle architectural firm) who had an IT support staff of 6, all
trained to support PCs and Windows. They knew how to talk to the two
server mols (NetWare on some kind of mainframe, IIRC) so they "never
had problems" printing to the various plotters and printers around the
building. They had shelves of manuals that told each side of the
lucite wall how to get NetWare to two way talk across the "bridge" .
I had to read and research and read for days before I learned enough
about NetWare advise the server gurus what script changes THEY had to
make so their software would open an ear to the Mac's commands. It was
a simple thing, but they had never even cracked the chapters on
AppleTalk over Ethernet in a NetWare environment, and spent days
telling me it could not be done. I personally had never done it
myself, but crimenea, look in the friggin manual's index before you
make up your mind.
You might speak to your IT folks about cross-platform, or ask one of
us, how to solve your problems, Mark. Trouble-free is relative to the
troubleshooters.
Joseph McAllister
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The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
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