[WinMac] Santa Claus [WAS: NT Services for Mac vs. Dave & PC MacLan?]
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Bruce,
I like your characterizations of sysadmins better than mine! :)
FROM: <<http://www.morte.com/morte/syssanta.html>:
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Ever noticed how many similarities there are between SYSTEM
Here's a few:
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1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you
3. Santa seldom answers your mail.
4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he's got, he says,
5. Santa doesn't care about your deadlines.
6. Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but did all the
7. Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to for his actions.
8. Santa laughs entirely too much.
9. Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME.
10. Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his presence.
-- Thanks to: Greg Jewett for this contribution
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At 10:18 AM 3/7/99 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>Adam wrote:
>> Why is Dave, PC MacLan or any additional networking software necessary
>> AppleTalk, NT and Novell have all of this already built-in?
>
>Because so many administrators have the idea that somehow running
>services on their servers will cause them to bog down, become
>unstable, cause early hair loss and send 'Good Times' emails to everyone
>their network.
>
>Because in 1986 Appletalk was a low speed very chatty protocol, and they
>think that Macs can handle newfangled protocols like TCP/IP (gawds
>troof...I was once told that by a sysadmin who really should have
>better) and so don't belong on 'their' network.
>
>Because Macs are only used by artsy-fartsy types and heroin addicts
>to Dave Barry) ;-)
>
>Because in most places, people using Macs are treated as the
>stepchildren by the system administrators, who don't understand why they
>just give up and get assimilated by the MicroBorg Collective. After
>Windows systems are perfectly fine for the Sysadmins, so why should it
>different for anyone else in the enterprise.
>
>Beacuse using Dave, you can fool the sysadmins into thinking that that
>your desk is really a Windows workstation...all you have to do is
>Softwindows every time they come by...just tell 'em you recycled your
>monitor to save the company money...
>
>Ok...I'll go take my meds and sit in the corner quietly, now, Nurse...
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