Re: [SLUG] RedHat at UOW

2005-08-20 Thread Simon Males 


Robert Barnett wrote:

Hi,

I have a colleague from Uppsala University, Sweden. He uses ITK/VTK for
data processing and manipulation of Medical Images. He currently has a
post-doc position which is shared between UOW and a Sydney hospital.
He's informed me that UOW would not let him use his RedHat (Fedora Core
3) machine on the campus network because they only allow for approved
OSes to connect to the network.


/me UOW student

I'm guessing that he wishes to install Fedora on an UOW supplied 
machine? If he brought his own hardware he could connect wirelessly 
assuming he doesn't need any specific networked resources (though 
printing could be a difficultly). I believe academics are (maybe were) 
allowed to connect there laptops via ethernet.


Further, the 3rd year Computer Science project lab use to have Fedora 2 
or 3.


Personally I would take it higher than the ITS department.

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[SLUG] RedHat at UOW

2005-08-19 Thread Robert Barnett 
Hi,

I have a colleague from Uppsala University, Sweden. He uses ITK/VTK for
data processing and manipulation of Medical Images. He currently has a
post-doc position which is shared between UOW and a Sydney hospital.
He's informed me that UOW would not let him use his RedHat (Fedora Core
3) machine on the campus network because they only allow for approved
OSes to connect to the network.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to appeal this decision/policy? I
completed a postgrad course at UOW. In all my time there I never managed
to get any response from the IT department with regards to policy.

Regards,

Robbie

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