[Gllug] university windows-only policy

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, dennis furey wrote:

> I've started a new course in a university (not LSBU, despite my email
> address) where students are allowed to plug laptops into the network
> but only if they're running M$ operating systems. It seems odd when
> the admins are clued up enough to be using Unix for their back end
Don't go overboard.
Why not just go and see said admins, and ask them nicely?
You never know - they might turn a blind eye to a clueful person with a
Linux box.

Me, I wonder if it has something to do with their DHCP setup and maybe
registering MAC addresses? Maybe its just a lot of trouble, as you say,
to offer advice on how to configure lots of different types of laptop.


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