So I am using the office lap top that students use because it’s an honest to God real PC! Yes, it’s a dinosaur of a lap top being five years old, no updates to speak of and it’s a community tinker toy unless I am sitting at the desk cursing the retarded Mac. I hate Macs! Just how the fucking hell do you right click a button mouse? Did I mention that the keyboard is institution white and shows all kinds of icky nasty things that I don’t want to know about? Meanwhile, there are no Microsoft products on the Mac. No Word, no Works, not even Excel. It won’t talk to the lap top and the lap top doesn’t care either way. I have to use this beast to check my Outlook mail because the Purdue system is not equipped to accommodate a Retarded Mac User. Oh yeah, my Gmail is also kinda not working/supported by Mac. As in, my quick contacts on Gmail won’t come up so I cannot chat with Adam. Adam so very kindly pointed out that Mozilla and FireFox will allow for the feature to work. YAY! wOOt! JOY! I still don’t like the Mac.
This morning, I find that I cannot find the tower that a PC would have. I am digging around like a mole on the floor looking to see where some genius placed the tower out of reach so I can’t access stuff like a disc drive. It turns out that Mac has some kind of ALL IN ONE SYSTEM. The monitor is so huge you could probably see it from orbit. The power button is on the back of this monitor and does not shut down like a PC if you hold the button down for a hard shut down. OY-VEY! Our resident computer geek says he has no idea how a Mac works; a source of contention since I have to be stuck here with this dinosaur lap top and Mac for a tentative 4-6 weeks. I saw the advert for this job listed on the employment site. I think I will pass on that one. Ugh
Anyhoo, I could go on and on and on and on about what I don’t like about Macs, but so far, I have stuck to the main points, because at the moment, I am supposedly working on a project database that won’t allow me access because none of the computers geeks have bothered to set me properly for accessing important things like a friggen shared drive! I am amazed with the disparity between offices on this campus. There’s an OLD Dell in the back room, with a funky Gateway keyboard that looks like it should have been put out to pasture, not to mention the monitor and tower looks as though they’ve been in a flood or stained in nicotine. It’s very sad here. Printers that don’t work, copiers that break down every time you use them, and a phone system that drops calls or won’t let you transfer. I still have not been able to check the voicemail. I hope there’s nothing important on there. It’s really kinda messed up and I don’t fault the faculty up to a small point. I could, but if it does what they need it to, why fix it? ARRG!