I've been having my own problems with the Army's IT system.
Every month since I retired, I get one or more emails from the Army
lecturing me for my failure to keep my profile up to date & change my
password, thereby jeopardizing the security of the entire free world.
Unfortunately, I do not have access to a CAC card reader attached to a
secure Army computer on a .MIL network. And, since retirees are not
issued a CAC ID card, even if I had physical access to the computer I
still couldn't change my password or update my profile.
There is no way for me to contact them from outside the system to even
tell them that I do not have access.
Not just Catch-22, but Catch-22 squared.
I'm not anti-Mac, I just prefer to build my own & I can't really do that
with a Mac.
On 11/30/2013 10:31 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Thanks John! I know you won't convert me, I won't convert you, but I
appreciate your perspective. My first Mac was the MacPlus. I've gone
through at least five desktop generations since then, plus 3-4
generations of laptops. I pretty much hated every new system that
came out. I stuck with System 9.x for a long time, finally moved to
OS-X with version 10.3. In retrospect, each successive change was
pretty well thought out and the transition was smooth once I took the
time to unlearn a few old habits and learned to appreciate the new
features and new ways of doing things. I don't know that Apple has
acquired my soul along the way, but they do have my conditional
loyalty. As long as they continue with quality products, I will
continue with them.
Along the way I used many Compaq's and Dells etc. There were long
stretches when the only way I could satisfy the then current Army
approach to secure sign-in was to use a Windows-based system. So I
used a Mac for most of my work, a Windows laptop for email, file
transfers, etc. I was the only Mac user among 8500 (?) computer users
at Fort Leavenworth and the IT guys used to grumble about that, but
occasionally they would come to me with a file that they couldn't
open or whatever and I enjoyed giving my little lecture about the
value of diversity.
stan
On Nov 30, 2013, at 9:15 PM, John wrote:
This will probably be of absolutely no help whatsoever, but ...
I don't think now is a particularly good time to buy Windoze
computers anyway. Looks like everything that's available comes
preloaded with Windoze 8, which is not the best thing Micro$oft
ever came up with.
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