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> If you're supporting an office then you have a local mirror of the software > update server and point everything at that. At least then you don't have > to log into every machine and install new software (HATE) or reimage with > Ghost (HATE) or have everyone use a shared application partition (the > network's down, nobody can do anything. HATE) or in other ways micromanage > your user's desktop toaster. What I do is rsync /usr/local around. I have mostly tried to treat my user's desktop toaster as an x-terminal that happens to run some really awful GUI based software they need for stupid political reasons. You know, stuff like Orifice and Goats and Visual Make and the appropriately named SAP. That's out of my hands now, I just get people asking me what I recommend. > Whole new class of hate: supporting MacOS Classic. Don't. If someone wants to use it then you let them sink or swim. Usually they want to use it because they know how to swim in it. If they sink, it's cheaper to upgrade them to OS X than to spend the time supporting them. Unless you have no budget, like it's charity work, but that's good for your soul.There's stuff above here
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