Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> I was talking with a young lady (early 30s, young by my standards)
> yesterday about Linux. She knows about Linux and has dabbled with it a
> little, but she loves her NT. Despite that she runs Staroffice on her NT
> and prefers it to MS Office. She didn't know about BeOS or FreeBSD or
> clustering, or any of the other funky things.
>
> Some way into the conversation it came out that she holds a Masters degree
> in Computer Science. Now that really worries me.
Well, not really. There are those who are true Sys-Admins and love
fiddling with systems and the 'others' who just use the machines. A
bit like there are mechanics and people who drive cars.
>
> Since she is Sydney based, she might just be a SLUG candidate.
Because she likes NT?
Or hasn't heard about Linux? (come up and see my
etchings^h^h^h^h^h^hLinux sometime {z:-).
Or because she is a young (ish) female? (If we are going to start
encouraging young females to start coming along to SLUG, we are going
to have to prepare for SLUG to grow enormously) {:-0.
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