Tilly, You could also see if you can spot any other Macs in use at the conference and approach their owners. Either you'll and end-up approaching the help desk with safety in numbers, or you'l find somebody who's cracked it.
Phil -- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] www.myspace.com/philwardmusic • Freelance writer and product designer. • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. • Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. • Regular contributor to Sound on Sound and Performing Musician magazines. On 10 Sep 2010, at 00:06, Jason Davies wrote: > Tilly wrote: >> I'm asking here because my experience of >> university IT staff is that they usually would rather eat their hat >> than deal with a Mac.The setup here clearly assumes PC (Vista) users. >> > I would imagine they are on eduroam which requires 802.1x set-up. > > and indeed it seems they are; http://www.abdn.ac.uk/wireless/ > > You will need the helpdesk to sort out access unless you have eduroam from > another institution (in which case it would have worked already). > > My university used to spit at you (metaphorically, I assure you) if you said > you were using a Mac. Nowadays they don't really mind; they say they don't > technically support them, but usually do. This might have something to do > with the fact that most of the staff in IS use macs whenever they get the > chance... So I would ask them. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
