A baby-step in the right direction...

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
> We never did have a single IT person that worked at my school that
> didn't fall in love with Linux...  Even the Windows fanboys eventually
> enjoyed not having to deal with viruses and such Windows annoyances.
>
> The attitude that I HATE to see is when an IT type specifically says
> that he only installs and recommends Windows, not because it's the best
> thing for the job or the customer, but that it is the best thing for
> their job security.  They usually even run Linux at home themselves, but
> they just can't resist a sure thing with having to get paid large
> amounts of money to come by and clean the gunk out of someone's system a
> couple of times a year.

  sounds like our healthcare system... ;)

  -jmz

>
> Personally, I've found that I still get the work when I've installed
> linux... it's just that the work is a lot more interesting than the same
> old virus clean out, or system reload.
>
> Brian
>
> Stu wrote:
>> Our main IT guy once told me he would *love* to see Ubuntu on the
>> company desktops, unfortunately it's not his decision.
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:15 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>>> After that step is Linux desktop installations :-D
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Thanks! Phase II of my plan is to show it to my co-workers, and get them
>>>> to request it on their computers as well...
>>>> Today, the intranet... tomorrow, the WORLD!
>>>>        ...Muwhahahaha!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:37 -0700, AZ RUNE wrote:
>>>>> That is awesome and good work
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>                Just this past week, I finally convinced our new IT
>>>>>         director to install
>>>>>         the Windows version of Inkscape on my work computer since I've
>>>>>         been
>>>>>         using it for the past several years anyway.
>>>>>                A baby-step in the right direction for them, and I can
>>>>>         finally take my
>>>>>         old laptop home!
>>>>>
>>>>>                Stu
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>



-- 
http://www.google.com/profiles/jjzeidner
http://www.joshuazeidner.com/