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MacBook not so popular with the ignorant?
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When signing up for the WiFi network at my university, you have to fill out a whole load of stuff about the computer. Under "Operating system" I put "Mac OS 10.4 Tiger" and under "Anti-virus software (required)" I put "Mac OS 10.4 Tiger"
I chuckle a little bit and keep on working, but she was serious! And she didn't just make me turn AirPort off- she made me put it away!!!
At that point I would have left the room and gone to the library or somewhere to continue working.
Ugh, I once went to a LAN party, and there was a DHCP server assigning IP addresses. One of the other attendees had his IP set to static (and the DHCP server wasn't aware of this), so the server assigned the same address to me. Apparently it was still my Mac's fault
What else could it be?Apparently it was still my Mac's fault
The vast majority of IT problems are between the keyboard and the chair.
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It kind of amazes me that DHCP is not designed to be robust with respect to this. Granted that there are probably reasons to occasionally want two MAC addresses to share an IP, it's the exception and not the rule. I'm surprised DHCP isn't smart enough to know that the IP is in use, even if it did not pick it.
Woh! I never really thought that people can be really that clueless. I am so glad that I go to a school where if you have a PC, people will look at you funny, unless of course you are stuck in the administration departments.
I would definitely bring that up with the Tech support of the school or something and get this cleared out. Obviously the teacher isn't getting the right training.
I would definitely bring that up with the Tech support of the school or something and get this cleared out. Obviously the teacher isn't getting the right training.
Uhm... I think you are confused a bit on this... First, the mode you are thinking about is "Ad-Hoc", which Apple calls "Computer-to-Computer" networking. Infrastructure is when you have the access point hooked up to the physical network, and computers connect to it.
Secondly, I find it a bit far fetched that this scenario would exist. Ad-Hoc is /very/ rarely used. I have tried Ad-Hoc /once/ in the past 6-7 years. A simpler, and more plausible explination would be that this teacher (like many who claim to know enough about technology to teach it), doesn't know what the fark wireless actually is, or that Mac wireless hardware is the same stuff found everywhere else.
I mean, this sort of thing reminds me of a networking teacher I had in college. I think I showed her up one too many times in class, because I got my final grade back at a D-, when the calculated grade (based on her own formula) should have been a B-/C+... and even then it was only that low because not showing work on how you got an IP address + net mask would get you a zero on the whole assignment.
Windows users should get the EOBKAC=Error Occurs Between Keyboard And Chair. I love that so much.
Its surprising, yet not so surprising that people are this ignorant. Its been going on for years.
If this was your first time there, you should ask her how many times the network has crashed before. When she tells you the number, tell her that's how many times your Mac has not crashed the network.
If this was your first time there, you should ask her how many times the network has crashed before. When she tells you the number, tell her that's how many times your Mac has not crashed the network.
i have an english class where dell laptops are provided and there is a lot of online work to be done. the first day i asked the teacher if could just use my mac. she told me that i was more than welcome to and that she is a mac user herself.
when it came time to access the internet, not one of the dells would work, but my mac sure connected! we've met about 3 times so far this semester, and while all the other students are trouble shooting and trying to access the internet, i sit there browsing macrumors...
when it came time to access the internet, not one of the dells would work, but my mac sure connected! we've met about 3 times so far this semester, and while all the other students are trouble shooting and trying to access the internet, i sit there browsing macrumors...
MINE TOO!
We have a special mac lab just in our union and then another apple store down the street :-D I love the signs in all the dorms reminding people to install antivirus software with the little * and the "unless you are running mac os or linux" it makes me smile :-D
Oh My & Gawd.
Am I the only one who would tell her off? I'd look at changing schools if that happened to me. Gah, I *hate* when someone in the school environment who knows nothing about an issue insists on making policy.
Man I would so stick it to her. Heck I'd report it. Grrrrrr.
(well yes its been a bad day actually... but still)
Am I the only one who would tell her off? I'd look at changing schools if that happened to me. Gah, I *hate* when someone in the school environment who knows nothing about an issue insists on making policy.
Man I would so stick it to her. Heck I'd report it. Grrrrrr.
(well yes its been a bad day actually... but still)
i end up helping people in my computer lab at school that use macs, as the people that work in the lab can't even close a program. one guy told me there is no file system on a mac, just the dock, which can get annoying.
this guy is a computer science major. HOW?!
this guy is a computer science major. HOW?!
Easy. Cisco Clean Access is only for Windows.
Funny thing is, I dont have to install it on my Bootcamp Windows installation either. I guess my university associates IPs with OSes (the network detects what OS you're using, and if it's Windows on a non Apple it directs you to a site with CCA (if not installed already)...otherwise you just log in with your student id and pass on an online log-in.)
edit: apparently CCA is also discontinued.
Same here, everything i use is in-built to OS X. So i just have to Name the VPN configuration and enter my username and password. Same for internet/Wi-Fi access, just enter username and password and i'm good to go. No third party software whatsoever.
My windows counterparts had to install some software and do some hacking and everyone had to visit the IT guy so do some setup before they could access the network even though this University swears by XP Pro. Some even had to buy External Wi-Fi cards because their in-built ones were incompatible apparently.
Long live the Macintosh.
whoops, i guess they do have it for OSX. I tried researching it but i only got back that it was discontinued..
Anyways, my school sees no use in forcing me to install it.
She tells me that I can't use my macbook over the schools WiFi network because it's a Mac and it might disrupt the connection to the other computers and cause the network to fail...
I hope she is not a computer science instructor, otherwise you need to switch schools. WiFi standards are just that, WiFi standards, and it doesn't matter if you connect with a PC, Mac or your Internet ready refrigerator, they all use the same standards and for the most part the same equipment (wireless chipsets) at the hardware level. You should ask her to explain the exact technical process by which this disruption might occur.
