[Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

[Stephen Digby]

Words of wisdom again. Jim.
We now have many Macs on the network both a notebooks and desktops BUT there are two main problems:

- Macs consume far more tech assistance due to integration problems with a Windows network environment (eg many apps do not yet
offer Mac based versions etc etc etc)  Roll on the new Intel Macs !
- anecdotal observations indicate staff with Macs tend to have a higher proportion of non work related activity on their macs while
at work and home

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Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx: 9555 8617
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it - Pablo Picasso

-----Original Message-----
From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jim Maunder
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2006 2:38 PM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

At 12:02 PM 20/02/2006, you wrote:
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>         From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
>[mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jim Maunder
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>         Unless you are at an all Mac school/workplace, it is a real 
>pain for tech staff such as my good self to try to get them integrated 
>into a Microsoft or Novell environment, ...
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>I've always enjoyed integrating them, Jim ... I like diversity in 
>computing

I have found it fun at times - we set up a computer lab of dual boot XP/Linux machines a couple of years ago. I even got the
'Novelclient' 
to work, and 'mapped' the students' network drives - all in French just to make it more enjoyable! If you have a programme to use a
mixed environment it is ok because one plans the environment to suit, but trying to integrate the odd rogue Mac (or linux box)is
where the pain comes from.

At Chelt in pre-Stephen days I got a couple of staffroom Macs onto the NT network, they could use printers shared on the PCs etc. I
was pleased with myself for doing this, but it was more for my entertainment than for practical purposes.

Pardon the tortured English, but I hope you get the drift of it.

rgds
Jim


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