On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/24/10 2:53 PM, Mika A wrote:
I am paid for my technical expertise. Management types don't tell me how
to do my job, or tell me what tools to use. If they do, I don't work for
them anymore. People ask for solutions to problems, and I give them the best
Hmm, that must be nice... :-) One would think that as an educational
institute we would be more inclined to try new things but no such luck..
Strangely/sadly/funnily/whatever the most vocal opponents are the
teachers, who don't want to learn something new... Go figure.
I assume you're talking about Sun Rays being expensive. Yes, with that I
Yes. And now the unbelievable "you have to buy support to download
firmware" -policy, WTF?!? There must be a guide "how to get rid of your
customers" lying around somewhere.. Compare that to HP's network gear with
lifetime warranty and pretty much the lowest prices..
have, and they likely never will. Dynamic delete-after-logout desktops are a
fix for a problem that only exists in the Windows world.
Yes, but it is a fix, nevertheless.. :-)
It is great if there are people who accept a switch to linux just like
that but it simply is not always possible.
It's not always possible, true...but we've turned the corner; the instances
in which it IS possible are far more common than the instances where it
Now that does sound good!
Even AutoCAD doesn't require Windows anymore.
You mean the Mac version?
because either Excel or RDP or uttsc has bugs which disconnected the
session every time she tried to do a specific task and there were
Wow, that must've been annoying. No, not "always", but "mostly". I'm sorry
Heh, so I heard.. :-) She did find work-arounds for most of them but it
was slowing her down and irritating, naturally..
Didn't file a bug yet, but probably will once we get some other problems
cleared and verify that doesn't happen on windows terminal client..
.mika
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