<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Same shit here I'm afraid. I have one admin machine that we bought with the course budget - when we found out we had one (it had been used to plug funding gaps in other courses for years apparently). I don't tell IT about that machine, and they do not know!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Luckily I removed it and the MOTU Ultralite audio interface from the college over the summer, so when all our equipment was burgled last weekend we held onto it. South London - dodgy place! Security isn't so hot
where I work either, and nothing, it turns outm was insured!<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Best of luck,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ed<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!<br>http://sharktracks.co.uk/<br><br></div> <div
style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pd-list@iem.at <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 14 September 2012, 10:09<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD] ... and the battle with IT begins<br> </font> </div> <br>On 13/09/12 19:14, m.e.grimm wrote:<br>> my rant is as follows<br>><br>> when making a request to have pd-extended 0.43.1 installed on the<br>> teaching station i get:<br>><br>> "Mark:<br>><br>> For obvious reasons, we won't install a beta release of software in a<br>> production environment.<br>><br>> The current latest
production release will be installed."<br>><br>> which im fine with 042.5 but this is just more annoying than anything else.<br>><br>> am I alone or do others on this list in Universities battle with IT on<br>> a daily basis? i am suspecting im not alone.....<br>><br>> is it the word "BETA" that is so bothersome? what is a "production<br>> environment"? am i not producing something?<br>><br>After quite a while and after gaining a certain amount of trust and <br>respect by the IT people (but also with some backing by my boss, and I <br>must say they are clever guys, not as stubborn as what you write) I got <br>an 'experimental' machine where I'm admin: but that's because my job may <br>include installing and testing alpha-alpha software and report back to <br>developers...<br>But I'd assume 'audio' and 'video' machines are always less restricted <br>(the people working with MACs have full admin on those as well).<br><br>Good
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