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Welcome to the REAL WORLD!!!<div><br></div><div>from me, a former educator who knows about archaic things. The 2GS's were working fine back in the day, but we HAD to switch to Windows. I won't tell you about all of the problems that spawned and we weren't even ONLINE then....</div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Charles Firth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">What's great about this article is how clearly it shows the new team is as appalled as we would be - calling the existing network "the dark ages"<div><br></div><div>Best bit:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; ">One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Apple+Macintosh?tid=informline" target="" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); text-decoration: underline; ">Macintoshes</a>, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Microsoft+Corporation?tid=informline" target="" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); text-decoration: underline; ">Microsoft</a> software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font><div><div><div>On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Fozard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Day one glitches at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW:<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>NPMUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a><br>http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NPMUG mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug">http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't repeat gossip so listen carefully.</div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>