Isn't that the 'Apple' way? Tight control? -- Bruce
Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 6:19:51 AM, you wrote: JS> This is probably going to be my last on Mac vs PC for now. I'm getting JS> busy at school and barely have time to follow the list. JS> There are about 70 students in my class, broken into three sections. JS> Among the 70, there are maybe 10 who are over the age of 21. All the JS> rest are right out of high school. JS> The network is also set up to be Mac only, to indoctrinate the kids JS> properly from the beginning. I don't know what their experience with JS> computers in school prior to this has been, but I think it might have JS> been rather apple-centric. JS> What I think is going on is the Mac network at school is screwed down JS> really tight to keep the students from doing anything that might screw JS> with it. You can't change any preferences, and no allowance is even made JS> for saving those preferences as a script on your own drive. JS> Basically, it's just not set up to play nice with those who already know JS> something about a different way of doing things, and no allowance is JS> made for the diversity of those who use Windoze at home. JS> Not a matter of can't ... won't. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
