Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 22:24

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In <405d78$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:

>In article <danpop.807489537@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>
>|> Bullshit.  The large companies using Mac's do have sysadmins, exactly like
>|> the large companies using Unix.  The life of the Mac sysadmin is made
>|> considerably harder by the fact that Joe Mac User can screw his machine.
>|> Joe Unix User can't.
>
>Having actually been a mac system support person, I can tell you that
>you are making this up.  I _never_ had a problem with a user trashing
>a system folder over four and a half years.  This is with some pretty
>naieve users: secretaries and bosses.

It's the "smart" users who are causing the problems, not the naive ones,
who are affraid to touch anything which is beyond their understanding.
Consider yourself lucky to have had to deal only with naive users.
Other Mac sysadmins weren't that lucky.

Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch 
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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