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Originally posted by Chooco:
i bash macs all the time because they never seem to work properly at school. my school has lots of wintels and maybe 30 macs or so... the macs are fast with excellent graphics BUT half the students' login IDs and passwords don't even work, it has HUGE problems trying to pass through the school's proxy and it always gets errors when starting up where it has the picture of a bomb and the only button you can select is 'restart'
the wintel computers at school don't have those problems, all names and passwords work, they never actually crash (no intensive work like servers or games) and they actually have 2 buttons where you can just right click and select the function you want. despite that thing of "oh well hold the command button and click the mouse on a mac" that doesn't work at all, i've tried that LOTS of times and it just doesn't work on those... the computers are Imacs all of them are 600mhz connected through WIRES, not wireless (just so you don't claim it might be a problem with interferance)
i've never been badmouthed for using Linux, most people dont even know what that is.
Yep, unfortunetly I think Schools are the number 1 reason people get bad impressions of Mac's. Usually they are poorly maintained, and no one takes care of them.
There is allways two aproaches admin's take to the Mac's and they both suck. 1) let the user do whatever the fuck he wants. As a result you get shitloads of INITs and Extensions piled up etc. and the whole thing goes to shit cuz no one is makeing sure the system is properly configured all the time. 2) Lock the sucker up beyond belife. In this situation so many user restrictions are placed on the machine that no one can do anything, no matter how minor.
I used to maintain a Comp. Lab of both NTboxes and iMac's. I was known as "the Mac guy", I'm proud to say that I had all of those iMac's up and running smoothly 100% of the time cuz I made the effort of administrating them properly. Kept the users in their own folders, and at the end of the day gave a quick look at the Extension Manager to put it back it's base set.
Coulden't tell you about the Proxy server issues, prolly on NT
But seriously, all of these issues are a moot point now adays. You use OSX yet?
EDIT: as for two button mice, just bring your own to the lab. If it's USB, it will work. I personaly still don't see what the big fuss is. I have a big four-button track ball, and the regular old Optical Apple mouse, I switch between them every once in a while. Never actually cared about having more or less buttons, just a diffrent way of working is all.
[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
