Hei Knut

Knut S. Vikør wrote:
> I am holding out installing Lion as long as possible, because of
> non-upgraded applications. Also, I am still master of my own Mac both
> at home and at work. But the IT department at our campus are
> threatening to install "administered systems" on office Macs, like
> they have on Windows side, where we employees will not have admin
> privileges and will only have access to our separate user accounts
> (and our local Macs will be run from a central server, like Win.
> Apparently this is possible). Any changes that requires admin
> privileges can only be done by the IT staff. 
> 
> I have warned all colleagues to resist this, and will try to hold
> off (happily they do not yet have enough staff to make this happen),
> but have earlier at least believed that as Plan B, I could still do
> quite a lot within my user account: Add any application that did not
> ask for admin password, upgrade them, add fonts to the User Account
> fonts folder, add keyboard layouts to the Library folder (which
> includes all so much more than pref files), and so on. However, if
> it is true that all of this is now centralized to the roots Library
> and outside the user account, then I would not be able to do any of
> these things, you will need access to the root Library / have an
> admin account to add any font or application, including using Mac
> App Store (which only communicates with the Root Applications folder).
> 
> Is this really so? One more reason to lock the doors to the IT
> department, if that is the case.

Yes, so I do understand this new ridiculous way of building the main 
system parts. - And what worse is, - you won't even be able to add a 
font into your own user folder if you should happen to use a fonts 
manager app like Fontexplorer X, Fontexplorer Pro or Fusion, since the 
font library itself is placed in the main user library, which will need 
admin privelleges.

So keep on trying to persuade the IT staff not to make these changes. 
And if they should insist and do it against the employee's will, then 
you could deny using the centralized network and then use your own 
laptop MB/MBP and only connect to the workstation when needing to 
transfer files. - I know this can be taken as an illegal obstruction, 
but if it's the only way, - then use it.

And one thing more... Stay as long as possible on either 10.5.x or 
10.6.x. The 10.7.x is so buggy until now that it in many ways is 
useless. I find 10.7.x just as buggy and crappy as the old System 7.5.0, 
which was nearly a disaster!

Cheers, Erik Richard

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