Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-12 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consulted for a place once that, when I told IS I wanted to run linux on the in-house computer they gave me to use, basically threated to fire me. I literally had to hide the linux partition on the box. I'm

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-12 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 12:22 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consulted for a place once that, when I told IS I wanted to run linux on the in-house computer they gave me to use, basically threated to fire

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 08:11 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of getting us up and going with digital photography in our pathology

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:36 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 08:11 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-11 Thread burns
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:36, Collins Richey wrote: Just another proof of the maxim: If you don't know sh*t, you will be put in charge of those who do. Hey, that's me! -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc

Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Alan Jackson
Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:28:19 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of getting us up and going with digital photography in our pathology department. You have to experience it to believe it, but our IS department is trying to make my life as difficult as possible because

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Rick Sivernell
List My new Linux user, the one that all of those windows confused him. Tonight I had to another problem on his network. I told him I would remove those windows so they would not bother him. Hell you will, I like that, it neat. What a difference a week makes. I do have a question, his network