Confucius, the Mac Consultant
Confucius say: When trying to impress upon the Internet Director of a company for which you are a consultant the benefits of Mac OS X Jaguar, it is always not a good idea to put a foot in your mouth. If you are joining a network comprised of an ancient Solaris machine serving over AFP, it is essential to update to the latest point release, 10.2.6. Otherwise, you will see files on the network that appear as gray dashed-line ghosts which seem to “disappear” when you double click them. This may take several minutes to realize.
Confucius also say: When trying to impress upon your PC coworkers the superior merits of Mac OS X Jaguar, it is always a good idea to have good network connectivity. Not being able to see certain shares on the Windows network will convince them that your cross platform capability holds no weight. For this reason you must open the Terminal and issue the command ifconfig. If it shows that you’re on the wrong subnet, you have proof positive that it is indeed the fault of the system administrator, and not your trusty Mac. This may take a little over six months to realize.
