Well, I'm back from the university. I have the chairman's permission to install the rc5 client on the lab computers, however there is a major problem looming on the horizon. The chairman is not too computer savvy, so he says that he will follow the recommandation of the prof in charge of the computer lab. This prof changed during the summer and the one in charge now is someone who has hated my guts for 11 years. When I got hired, the department desperately needed me, so I used that leverage to ask for the maximum entrance salary for soemone who did not have a Ph. D. I got what I wanted but that put me $5000/year above what this guy, who had a post doc and had been there 3 years already, was making. Somehow he got wind of my salary and never forgave me. It's like he blames me for what happened 3 years before I got there, when he was given just above the minimum for a candidate with a post doctorate.
Anyway, this guy has given me problems since 1989 and he's the one who has final say on what programs get installed on the lab computers. I will write a nice email and try to meet him (he wasn't there today) but I am rather pessimistic about the outcome.
There was a fieldtrip today so the department was nearly empty. No profs and just a few students. The graduate students have their thesis on their computers and are downright paranoid about installing anything that might crash it. I understand that. The undergrads are more receptive.
Of the few who were there today, I got for sure:
one P3 500MHz
one P2 400MHz
Two people also took the disk and will think it overnight. They gave me a 50/50 chance of deciding to install it. Those are
one Athlon 600
one P2 450.
Sorry I couldn't do better. The two who decided for sure will run it and if there are no problems after a couple of weeks, they say that they can recruit a few of their friends.
I tried.
Anyway, this guy has given me problems since 1989 and he's the one who has final say on what programs get installed on the lab computers. I will write a nice email and try to meet him (he wasn't there today) but I am rather pessimistic about the outcome.
There was a fieldtrip today so the department was nearly empty. No profs and just a few students. The graduate students have their thesis on their computers and are downright paranoid about installing anything that might crash it. I understand that. The undergrads are more receptive.
Of the few who were there today, I got for sure:
one P3 500MHz
one P2 400MHz
Two people also took the disk and will think it overnight. They gave me a 50/50 chance of deciding to install it. Those are
one Athlon 600
one P2 450.
Sorry I couldn't do better. The two who decided for sure will run it and if there are no problems after a couple of weeks, they say that they can recruit a few of their friends.
I tried.
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