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August 24, 2005
Woe is Mac
I recently bought an Apple PowerBook. Mostly because I really love OS X, and although I already have a PC desktop and notebook for work, I wanted a light, fun computer to use for my personal projects and school. Now, I have no illusions about Macs and law school--I expected no support and resistance, but this is a bit ridiculous.
We have wireless networking (new!) at my school, and I wanted to get my new PB on... so I went to our "Help Desk" and our conversation went like this:
"I wanted to authorize my Mac for the wireless network."
"We don't support Macs. You see, they use a completely different operating system."
"Um, yes, I know. But wireless is wireless. It's all 802.11b/g and TCP/IP. I can give you the MAC address for authentication."
"We don't support them because we don't want Macs here."
Delightful bunch. This is the same crew that told me they required Windows because of security last year. I had to suppress my laughter at that one.
*sigh*
I can still get on the wired network, but it's irritating.
Posted by Dave!
4 Comments
Those guys are a trip. I met with GSU's help desk folks last week and they were charming and very helpful. They had just been to C-K for a tech conference and they admired C-K's technology, so I decided not to comment on the ridiculousness of the help desk personnel.
Call them on the phone, say you got a new Windows laptop, give them the Mac MAC address?
I was going to buy a Mac, but people told me not to (because many schools don't support this platform) and furthermore, the Bar Exam software doesn't allow PC's. Sucks, doesn't it?
Give up! Resistance is futile!