I hope people haven't taken my answers wrong on this thread. It's not that I don't
believe in supporting charities (heck, I work on a volunteer ambulance service), but
that we need to disabuse them of the MS-propagated myth that "you don't need to know
anything to do this." ALL systems need some level of admin support. The more
networked & used a system, the more support. Even something as simple as back-ups
requires, at minimum, a level of support sufficient to determine what to back up and
when, run the backups, ensure the backups are good (yes, I've seen backups run
religiously to bad tape ;), etc. This all takes time and effort. They either get it
via volunteer support (available when and if, no guarantees), or they pay for it.
The difference between Linux and Windows here is that, with Linux, they only pay for
support. With Windows, they pay the licensing, and THEN pay for support. A question
to ask them is "what would they do if their car broke down?" Some of them may know
enough to fix it, but I suspect most would take their car to a repair shop.
jeff
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Thought for today: gnarly /nar'lee/ adj.
Both obscure and hairy
(sense 1). "Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of
BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage
in surfer slang.
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