On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Cluff 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 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 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@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@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@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@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/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss