[dundee] NoHelpDesk

[Nistur]

I believe there is an in house thing similar isn't there? 
progress.abertay.ac.uk or something. However I have no idea how complete 
this is, whether it is infact the same kind of thing or even if it is 
made in Abertay :) We were only told about it's existence a short time 
ago and have used neither on our course.
I will add that Firefox crashes on WebCT for me, however Hazel has (same 
version or FF) working smoothly... not too big a problem as I now have 
ies4linux.
I admit this is a big problem, if they are expecting students to use it 
then they can't demand using IE or Windows... however this isn't the 
university's fault and with them understaffed as it is then probably the 
best thing is to bury your dignity and use 'doze until it's fixed (but 
obviously still keep complaining)
This isn't something that will be solved fast, but as long as there are 
enough people wanting a fix and they make sure they don't hide away then 
something will be done.

Nistur

Arron M Finnon wrote:
> Okay Jason,
>
> I'll play nicely, but only cas you asked nicely.  I'm a fair guy and
> being understaffed isn't much fun.  I can't bypass the checks, and
> disabling java just seems to stop me from going in.  It's a little
> excessive just to check some stuff i've lived without, and it's fair
> excuse for me to give the unethical rhetoric that i think my lectures
> have come to know and love (However we're still waiting for the rest of
> the voting slips on this one, and Bush may take this one too).
>
> This in a nuts shell is what i'm left asking.  And it's sooo far removed
> from this thread now that even if Bill Gates added millions more to his
> new telescope he'd not see it from here.
>
> ergo;
>
> If the problem is not abertay, it is a company used to make a product.
> The product has limitation and is not reaching as a wider audience as it
> was intended.  Then why persist and make do with a product that's not
> working.  I'm having a shot in the dark but if we asked to look at the
> source code (i'll add some honesty in here for you too, it may as well
> be written in Esperanto for me, but some of you computing genius that i
> loving call friends and members will understand it) they'll tell us NO
> it's intellectual property or some other bull.
>
> Why does an Award winning computing school, not actually do something.
> With the hands on experience of both students and lecturers you would
> think we could do this with our eyes closed.
>
> Feel free to answer or ignore this, but if this isn't enough motivation
> to start a political movement about getting crap software out of the uni
> i don't know what is.
>
> Slighty less peeved finux, thank Jason for his information and signing
> off.  Fingers crossed for those voting slips
>
>
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