Nestamicky wrote:
On 22/04/10 1:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
*ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student
or instrument in
On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Charles Lenington wrote:
It really sucks when you buy a pallet of computers at a auction and the HDs,
trays/brackets and ram are gone.
I don't know about other places, but our surplus forms are always accurately
marked as to condition., and they almost always
On 4/22/10 10:30 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^ IT guys are spoiling my fun!
Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-)
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace
at work. Now the music just
Bruce: Nice Dilbert reference. :-)
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--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
their employees to work for them. :)
Even cows get some music when they are being milked
On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
their employees to work for them. :)
Even
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any
On 4/23/10 12:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
On 22/04/10 12:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Folks dragging new toys are shocked when they come to us and say help
us get X going.
And we look at them, take the device from their hands, and say Okay,
I've now held on of these things in my hands for a total of five seconds
in my life. How do you
On 22/04/10 1:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
*ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student
or instrument in their lab.
Don't
On 23/04/10 1:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We would occasionally have interesting Radio Wars in that lab.
The best working policy that I've seen is to not have music at all. Or,
ring it directly into your ear, from your iPod, walkman or discman.
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On 4/23/10 12:05 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Be careful what you wish for, you might get someone who decides that
Bangladeshi folk music is Just The Thing.
(Happened one time in a lab I worked in, one PhD was from there and
was playing some traditional Bangladeshi
On 4/23/10 6:30 PM, Dan wrote:
At 9:15 AM -0700 4/22/2010, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^ IT guys are spoiling my fun!
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on
myspace at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based). Is
it possible
On Apr 23, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
Don't you guys have a policy that prevents people from stripping
machines. I've seen a laptop where the prof/Phd student., perhaps in
wanting a newer machine, disconnected the video cable going from the
mainboard to the display and turned the
On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^ IT guys are spoiling my fun!
Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-)
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on
myspace
at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:51 AM, John Niven wrote:
To be fair, in one of my previous companies, the IT guy gave me a
fixed ip address so I could put my Classic II on the lan (no dchp)
via an scsi-to-ethernet converter :-) I used it as a terminal.
Cool.
But the current bunch won't
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
2) It's new/different, we're short-staffed, and we don't have time to learn
and support these things on top of all the other things we currently do, and
make sure it doesn't break what we already can barely
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
*ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Here there has long been an Apple Store in the Art department. There
are some iMacs mixed with PCs in building labs around campus. the
library has a few scattered macs. Mostly for media work.
Lots of Macs on campus, and our
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
We're getting to be more and more mac all the time, in the last three days
two more professors have told us or inquired about switching.
More and more of our students have nice MacBooks and MacBook pros and
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