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It is surprisingly hard, in this library, to find a PC with has the necessary permissions to contact the server containing the webpage files that is within a reasonable commuting distance from a Mac. There are four Macs in the computer lab, but none of the nearby PCs are on the correct subnet. Same for the laptops available for checkout. The lab managers have discovered that their computers can do it, but I'd have to sit in their office, make the changes, and run out and preview it on a Mac (although that's better then changing it at my desk and running upstairs to log in to a lab Mac and preview it there). The two departmental laptops also can't do it. One has a misconfigured wireless card, or something strange, and we've discovered that the point is moot since the server won't accept wireless connections. We think.

I've since discovered that the IC Training Room PCs, up here on the strangely freezing second floor will let me map the network drive I need, and there are four Macs in here, although it's still annoying to have to get up from the computer, cross the room, and get on the other one. I have submitted a request to snarf one of the Macs for a few days and have it down near my desk (although I don't have an extra network drop, so I'm going to have to string cable from the other side of the room), so I can actually use Dreamweaver, Photoshop, TextPad, my ergonomic keyboard, my trackball, and my ergonomic chair while tweaking.

And now that I have killed time by posting this, I shall get back to work.

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So you're running the library website, too? Or what does all of this refer to?

As the I.T. Librarian, my responsibilities are primarily to update and maintain the website and the library intranet pages, to manage the electronic journals and databases, and to do random other things as they turn up.

And finding a Mac in this building that is next to a PC that has the necessary permissions to connect to the library webserver is almost impossible. But we finally achieved it - I borrowed a lab Mac and we got it assigned to the faculty/staff subnet so I could plug it into the network cables in our office, and I strung cable over from my coworker's plug-in point, since the other unused one turns out not to be working. :D

My goodness. One would think if they have you do this as your job they'd think ahead about what you need to actually DO your job. I guess I am still too naive about work. Ganbatte!

Except that it never occurred to me, either, and you'd think I'd remember by now that I'd need to be able to check it on a Mac. :D