Ways to guarantee I'm going to be an IT nightmare...

[sarahmichelef]

1) Let me hear someone in the background saying "You're going to have to use Internet Explorer".
2) Tell me that IMAP access is unsupported and tell me that when I use the office machine I need to double click on (*shudder*) Outlook.

Actually I probably won't be an IT nightmare...  I will merrily bring my own network cable from home (so as to not have to crawl under the desk to unplug the one on the office computer) and I'll suck it up and use webmail instead of trying to get Mail to see my BuffState e-mail.  Or I'll just tell my students to use my UMass address... oooh, I bet I could set up the BuffState one to just forward to UMass.  That would be lovely.

But I'm online now, whoo!  In my little box of an office, with no windows to stare out of.  :^(  But the parking at Canisius and bussing over here plan worked like a charm, so that's good.

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[irihs.livejournal.com]

Ugh. We are forced to use IE at work. Not allowed to install software on work computers. It crashes was too often, but I suspect the database software we use was developed to work with IE. blergh.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't envision a world in which I would choose a creaky old Dell OptiPlex over my MBP... especially when I can do a little creative cable movement and work in the environment that I prefer.

I am not, however, going to be so stubborn as to haul the laptop into the classroom and move VGA cables around - I'll use the PC that's on the cart and my gig-on-a-string.