[Discuss] UVic's new portal now available to students, unless they use Firefox

[Paul Nienaber]

stephen hawkes wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but what is with UVIc and explicitly NOT 
> supporting linux. I went to the computer store because I needed a 
> wireless card and asked if they knew what chipset it ran (they 
> didn't). Of course they ask why the hell I would need to know, and I 
> said, "Various reasons, but running linux is the primary one."
>
> The response: "We don't support linux."
>
> I nearly went off.  I don't care, I don't need support, that's why I 
> am checking what chipset that card is (the particular card could have 
> 1 of two chipsets).
Yeah.  Simple thoughts for simple people.  This almost reminds me of 
people randomly freaking about anything their small minds can associate 
with terrorism the second you mention such things...
>
> Any of the helpdesks are the same if I complain about connectivity, 
> email or anything else.. when in all reality the issues I was having 
> have nothing to do with what OS I run.
I just quote standards.  "Your SMTP server is not speaking SMTP.  Please 
fix it."  Then they can't blither about what OS is allowing me to 
determine this.
>
>
> On a possitive note there were some rumors of uvic starting a linux 
> repo or mirror (I don't want to say what prof said that since it was 
> second hand to me, but my friend said he was quite excited about the 
> "possibility" or something along those lines).  That would be the 
> right step in UViv (or CSC at least) having an "official" distro that 
> would be supported on campus.
IMNSHO supporting one distro is about as good as supporting none at 
all.  Except then they can pretend they're doing something useful, while 
they're still not.  Boo ${OFFICIAL_DISTRO}!!!

~p