NYC Dept. of Education suspends Mac orders pending wireless issue fix

So let me get this straight...Apple can't send computers to the schools until they are ready, yet the Department of Education has no problem sending me students to the 9th grade who are at a 3rd grade reading level?!!? Interesting...

As a teacher in the system who GREATLY depends on technology in his classes, the DOE should use this time to fix some of the issues on their end as well.

For example, I wish somebody could explain to me why they still put Firefox 1.5 on the disk image used for al Mac installs.

Or why, EVERY SINGLE TIME somebody uses Firefox on the DOE wireless network, the address of the proxy server has to be re-entered.

Or perhaps they could address the issue of randomly choosing to shut down the wireless in classrooms and schools without providing any notice whatsoever to the school.

Or, better yet, why do I have to buy Macs for the school through Dell, and why do they cost 150% of their retail price?

Or, why do the engineers they send to the schools INSIST that it is impossible to have both wired AND wireless access in a room?

Ugh...

Wireless problems have been driving me crazy. (G4 17" Powerbook - 10.5.2). I seem to have stopped the connectivity problem by locking the base station to b instead of b/g. (have an older iBook in the house that can't do g).

But that comes at a performance cost - and despite the fact that it seems to have been working for several consecutive hours without dropping the connection I am neither happy nor confident.

Thats crazy! Im not sure if my server has been hit with these wifi issues but i did notice these odd notes in my server logs

In my logs, it shows that airport
Apr 17 09:31:21 DNSServiceResolve(Airport032Extreme032RM032220._airport._tcp.local.) active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the network.

After i unplugged the two aiport extremes my server started working fine. Its super odd because i upgraded a month ago to leopard server while these airport extremes had been installed.

Hopefully the new firmware will fix that.

Actually, that is the seal of the City of New York, {http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/features/greenbook_seal_flag.shtml}. Before the mayoral takeover of NYC Public Schools there was the NYC Board of Education and their seal is available at http://www.varsitytransit.com/images/BOElogo.gif.


Gary
New York, NY

Um, that's the seal of NYC in general, not the NYC DoE.

All I can say is that it's about time it got some attention. If this is what it takes to get the problem fixed then GREAT!

Wifi + WPA + 802.1x = broken. I've tried every solution on the Apple forums I could find and the only one that worked was to grab Internet Connect.app from Tiger and use it for the 802.1x on Leopard. Works fine and proves Leopard is the problem. Come on Apple, lock it down with 10.5.3 and make me 100% happy with it!

so the numerous outcries on apple's discussion boards don't make a dent, but withholding purchases will. Great.