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 (officially) let Macs on at all! I'll
have to buy a 3G version of the iPad to use it at work!!!!
?? This makes no sense...
This is the kind of damage hackers have done to the world.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "hackers" and EVERYTHING to do
with the crippling personal insecurities that many IT bosses and other
PHB's have for learning anything other than their Windows career
security blanket.
Back in the day, it was said "No one ever got fired for specifying
IBM" when those upstart, dangerous personal computers first came on
the scene.
Now it's "No one ever got fired for specifying Microsoft".
However, in the main, there are two main reasons IT folks will issue
blanket prohibitions on things:
1) The department is run and staffed by Microsoft Jihadists who hate
anything different.
-or-
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 keep running with the spit, bubble gum and used duct tape that
is all our budget allows us.
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 expect me to know everything about it?"
Believe it or not I've gotten the serious answer "Oh you don't have
one of these already?? I thought you IT guys ALWAYS had the latest and
greatest toys!"
I have a 4-year-old first-gen Intel iMac that I ONLY got because the
faculty member for whom it was purchased had no need or interest in
using a Mac, otherwise I'd probably still be using the 800 Mhz
upgraded Sawtooth we still use as our Mac test machine as my main
desktop.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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