Need assistance

[Thorny]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:35:12 -0300, Derek Broughton posted:

> Steve Reilly wrote:
> 
>> some schools mandate you use what they tell you to use or you dont go.
>> my niece spent over 3k (on top of the 30k tuition) on a dell piece of
>> $%&# that the school told her she had to get with the schools "special
>> software".  in order to use the schools network you have to be using
>> what they tell you to use WITH the software they tell you to use AND
>> pay dearly for it to boot.
> 
> Since I do some work for a University helpdesk - for a school that
> doesn't mandate what equipment you use - I can sometimes wish we had
> that policy :-)  But _I_ wouldn't want to go to such a school!

Oh! An IT nightmare, my condolences Derek.

Given that, it's not surprising that I sometimes think your comments are
brusque. :-)

It's a bit like trying to help people on a mailing list or forum or
newsgroup, eh? I imagine a lot of your friends think support is easy for
you too, so they should be able to ask anytime they want to.