[Offtopic] Dual booting Macs

[Jim Maunder]

At 04:20 PM 15/05/2008, you wrote:

>  ...
>Jim – we post to the top here, and also why are 
>those who bring Mac’s “recalcitrant”? I would 
>say these students are exercising their freedom 
>of choice, do you not allow students to use 
>linux? Do they pay for the notebooks or does the 
>school purchase them? Mac’s market share was 8% 
>at the end of 2007 so must be nearing 10% now. 
>Surely you cannot say that students using Mac 
>are “defiant of authority” – a bit harsh. 
>Personally if QuickBooks was compatible with 
>Linux I would remove Windows from both of my 
>laptops and desktop and replace it with Ubuntu.
>
>As ICT teachers/technicians/leaders etc I 
>believe we should all be multi OS literate – 
>besides – if you can use one you can so quickly adapt to all the others.
>

Arrrgghhh! Top posting! Nearly as bad form as 
using html in e-mail!!! There, I'm showing my 
age. Before MS Outlook and Outlook Express, 
e-mail clients positioned the cursor AFTER quoted 
text - the way things are supposed to be. How 
else does the reader know what the writer is responding to?

We would not support a student using Linux - none 
have appeared here yet. As for freedom of choice, 
there are plenty of things the school mandates - 
school uniform, graphing calculators, behaviour 
outside school when in uniform etc. The students 
and their parents know quite well what the school 
mandates about laptops, and if they ignore this, then they are being defiant.

Personally, I would be happy to use Linux on my 
desktop - except for the large laptop maintenance 
database running in Access. I don't want to redo 
it in StarOffice (or is it OpenOffice?) Base or MySQL.

rgds
Jim (home time)



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