Re: [ProgSoc] My $0.03 (US dollars, obviously)

[alister air <baitoven@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Christian Kent wrote:

> So having people coming from home with Word 97 to find that the labs don't
> have things they have at home is all right;  but if Joe Student comes into
> a lab to find =extra= functionality then that's a cardinal sin??  What's
> he going to do, get nervous and run out of the lab?  The worst thing is he
> might get jealous.

If Joe or Jane Student wonders in to the labs and tries to do things that
work fine on a bog-standard Win9x/NT + Office 9x combination... and it
*doesn't work*, our friends who work at the Resource Centre are going to
get really tired of answering the same question over and over and over and
over again.

By the way, caz/brett/matt/bru, how do I register for an email address?
:-)  

It's much easier for the people who'll set up the labs and those who'll
maintain them to make everything as standard as possible (if that's a
valid term). 
 
Alister

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              alister air | graduate computing student 
           libertarian socialist | and a few other things

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bread and circuses (why not bite  |   to giving orders) is what we pay
the hand that feeds you? the      |  them for, or rather what they pay
flavor is excellent) but without  |    themselves for with our taxes."
illusions."            --(Bob Black, 1982/1985)--


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