“Duke University is taking a softer stance on the cause of its wireless networking problems on Friday. Earlier in the week Duke administrators put the blame squarely on Apple’s iPhone, but a report due today from the university may exonerate the iPhone,” Jim Dalrymple reports for Macworld.
“‘We are presently looking into it and we have not been able to conclusively pinpoint where the problem is,’ said Julian Lombardi, assistant vice president of academic services technology support for Duke University,” Dalrymple reports. “‘We hope to have a resolution in the next few hours.'”
Dalrymple reports, “That is a much different position than Kevin Miller, assistant director, communications infrastructure, with Duke’s Office of Information Technology, took earlier this week. Miller laid the blame for Duke’s networking problems squarely on the iPhone.”
MacDailyNews Note: Network World on Monday quoted Kevin Miller as saying, “I don’t believe it’s a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form.”
More in the full article here.
I’m sorry, Zune Tang is neither funny, nor entertaining. His tired bit is boring as hell and I make sure to skip over it’s lame posts.
Back on topic, it’s not shock that it’s a Cisco/IT dipsh*t problem. That’s generally the cause when technical problems arise at a business or university.
Tell Kevin Miller what you really think….
kevin.miller@duke.edu
“It would appear at this point that Miller made his statements without a full report or any basis to blame the iPhone or Apple for the problems.”
Mr. Miller may have had no basis for his blaming Apple and the iPhone, but I’m sure he had plenty of bias! All these IT types are threatened by Apple and the fewer resources it takes to maintain Macs. They’re all just scared little girls, terrified they won’t be invited to the prom.
Duke update:
Cisco access point at fault for Duke’s wireless issues
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20070720/tc_macworld/dukecisco20070720_2;_ylt=AplF7smmo_D2neMwKaulEmEE1vAI
Kevin Miller is clearly just an Apple hater that thought he’d take what he thought was an opportunity to take a shot at Apple.
It was *idiotic*, even if you absolutely believed it was an iPhone, to make the public statement that it was related to the iPhone and *then* in state, categorically, that it was “in no way, shape, or form” a Cisco problem.
Just completely stupid.
Duke Lacrosse, or Apple iPhone. Duke is just screwed up when it comes to laying blame — the ivy is definitely becoming brown…