<strong>So wait, if someone on the school network or in my dorm is using 10.2 they will automatically show up on my buddy list for Rendezvous? Hmm...I just checked and it doesn't seem to be any different....come on people update your freakin OS!! I know for a fact there are some girls using the new iMacs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, it doesn't work that way. A dorm LAN is built on many different switches, as an example we have 6 per floor. 4 floors comes to 24 switches, divided by 400 students is a switch for about every 16 people. You'd have to be behind the same switch to see them in rendezvous. The only time I pick people up in our university center's wireless network.
It's interesting how similar Rendezvous is to a packet sniffer.
On topic:
Princeton has an interesting situation. The blockheads in the IT department are generally anti-mac, but the CS department and SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) are becoming very pro-mac. (Especially the CS department, and our CS department is good. Alan Turing started it, afterall.) So the deal with OIT is that they are drones for the CS dept, as in they worship the department's opinion. But they are about 5 years behind CS when it comes to delivery.
Our CS dept just replaced a room full of solaris POS boxes (Which I'm sure cost >10,000 a piece) with iMacs running 10. That's a good sign. Also, most CS profs seems to carry the PBG4s. A lot of profs in Mechanical and Aerospace also carry PBG4s. A few EE profs do as well.
Interestingly, our Architecture dept uses 3DSMAX on PCs. Perhaps this explains why our Arch dept is weak. They used to use FormZ on macs. . . I wonder how much Autodesk paid them.
Macs weren't even offered through the university until 1 year ago, or so I've been told. (They weren't offered my year, at least). But I've seen a steady increase in mac numbers on campus since then.
One of the colleges I'm considering gives every student a PC on admission which they keep for life. It comes with a bunch of stuff and will probably be required for classes that I'd take. But it also has XP Pro, which I just checked, can be used by Remote Desktop Client. I'm planning on getting the best Mac laptop I can and then using RDC as much as possible. I'm Windows savvy, but I'm not being forced into that "bad relationship".
At my highschool, almost all the teachers use macs, and most of my friends do. Its really cool, we have about 30 percent of the school mac. I helped my sister go off to college this year with an iBook(her first mac) and her friend bought an identical computer, and so did her friends parents. both of them are at Oberlin in Ohio. alot of people at the conservitory down there use macs. i'll count them when i visit her this weekend i'll keep a tally
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<strong>So wait, if someone on the school network or in my dorm is using 10.2 they will automatically show up on my buddy list for Rendezvous? Hmm...I just checked and it doesn't seem to be any different....come on people update your freakin OS!! I know for a fact there are some girls using the new iMacs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, it doesn't work that way. A dorm LAN is built on many different switches, as an example we have 6 per floor. 4 floors comes to 24 switches, divided by 400 students is a switch for about every 16 people. You'd have to be behind the same switch to see them in rendezvous. The only time I pick people up in our university center's wireless network.
On topic:
Princeton has an interesting situation. The blockheads in the IT department are generally anti-mac, but the CS department and SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) are becoming very pro-mac. (Especially the CS department, and our CS department is good. Alan Turing started it, afterall.) So the deal with OIT is that they are drones for the CS dept, as in they worship the department's opinion. But they are about 5 years behind CS when it comes to delivery.
Our CS dept just replaced a room full of solaris POS boxes (Which I'm sure cost >10,000 a piece) with iMacs running 10. That's a good sign. Also, most CS profs seems to carry the PBG4s. A lot of profs in Mechanical and Aerospace also carry PBG4s. A few EE profs do as well.
Interestingly, our Architecture dept uses 3DSMAX on PCs. Perhaps this explains why our Arch dept is weak.
Macs weren't even offered through the university until 1 year ago, or so I've been told. (They weren't offered my year, at least). But I've seen a steady increase in mac numbers on campus since then.