I see you have met Mordac, Preventer of Information Services (http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Mordac%20The%20Preventer). The message you received is clearly meant to demoralize and intimidate, what with the condescension ("obvious reasons" --- this is not obvious at all), bogus jargon ("production environment" --- sounds really impressive but doesn't apply to your setting), and gratuitous use of the passive voice ("will be installed" --- act of God, I suppose). Sadly, I've encountered this kind of attitude at several universities. Good luck, Peter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM, m.e.grimm <megr...@gmail.com> wrote: > my rant is as follows > > when making a request to have pd-extended 0.43.1 installed on the > teaching station i get: > > "Mark: > > For obvious reasons, we won't install a beta release of software in a > production environment. > > The current latest production release will be installed." > > which im fine with 042.5 but this is just more annoying than anything else. > > am I alone or do others on this list in Universities battle with IT on > a daily basis? i am suspecting im not alone..... > > is it the word "BETA" that is so bothersome? what is a "production > environment"? am i not producing something? > > > -- > ____________________ > m.e.grimm | m.f.a | ed.m. > megr...@gmail.com > _________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
