I see you have met Mordac, Preventer of Information Services (http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Mordac%20The%20Preventer). The message you received is clearly meant to demoralize and intimidate, what with the condescension ("obvious reasons" --- this is not obvious at all), bogus jargon ("production environment" --- sounds really impressive but doesn't apply to your setting), and gratuitous use of the passive voice ("will be installed" --- act of God, I suppose). Sadly, I've encountered this kind of attitude at several universities. Good luck, Peter
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM, m.e.grimm megrimm@gmail.com wrote:
my rant is as follows
when making a request to have pd-extended 0.43.1 installed on the teaching station i get:
"Mark:
For obvious reasons, we won't install a beta release of software in a production environment.
The current latest production release will be installed."
which im fine with 042.5 but this is just more annoying than anything else.
am I alone or do others on this list in Universities battle with IT on a daily basis? i am suspecting im not alone.....
is it the word "BETA" that is so bothersome? what is a "production environment"? am i not producing something?
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