Perhaps I'm being cynical, but there wouldn't need to be a huge IT
Department if they were Macs. The IT professionals perhaps see lots
of problems as continuing employment.
Regards,
John Taylor
working in an IT department myself - I put it down to lazyness and a
continued unwillingness to accept macs as "real computers" (hey I'm
happy to call my mac "An unreal computer") these are the same people
who are willing to endlessly tweak and twiddle Linux boxes at home
in their own time but then get a request that is part of their job
from a user and freak out as soon as they see the user has a mac then
hand ball it on some one like me who is the "mac specialist" (I'm not
really I'm an IT generalist who doesn't mind learning a little of
what ever is at hand). Case in point - a couple of mac users wanted
to be set up to a new network printers and that area's IT officer
just simply refused to touch their machines because, as they put it
"they have macs and it's to difficult to set up printers on macs and
they probably won't work on them anyway".
As it turned out the new printers are zero-config (rendezvous)
enabled so I rang each of the users and talked them through the
process in about 2 minutes each, done, over with, users printing
happily.
There are IT support officers that I work with who insist that OSX is
"pretend/fake Unix", still think Apples are more expensive than
comparable premium brand name computers (more often the reverse is
the case particularly server wise), that they still use expensive
SCSI hard drives, still use ADB mice & keyboards (despite the fact
they see me using a Microsoft mouse and Airtouch keyboard on my mac
every day and that many of their Windows users use Apple USB and
bluetooth keyboards) etc etc the list go's on and on
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Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
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University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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- Miguel de Unamuno
"It takes an idiot to do cool things.... that's why it's cool"
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