On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> At least your IT department will allow your Macs or
> Linux to join the network. I believe many organizations
> will not allow that without proper authorization.
>
> Some universities do support Mac OS X and/or
> certain Linux distributions.

We have a specific version of linux that IS supported,
but it's considered part of the "engineering unix
environment" rather than part of the "desktop application
environment."  (so, for instance, your linux system is
supposed to be essentially dataless, with personal files
and things like build results off in network-attached-storage,
and it doesn't support "applications" so much as it supports
"development environments.")

For quite some time, Macs were unable to attach via
wireless, because the "standard" selected for wireless
authentication wasn't supported on Macs.  Mac users
(which includes some senior VPs, multiple PhD-carrying
"fellows" and so on) were annoyed.  (it's all better
than daytime television!)

BillW
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