I didn't mean to suggest the country wasn't in the real world. (think the country is more real, there's dirt and stuff, honest people, fresh air and no yuppies) I nearly ended up there myself 10 years ago before we moved to the Gold Coast. We were in Brisbane and anywhere in Oz was possible as the GP wifie was dictating the location.
Hang on I was stuck on ISDN for 4 years till 12 months ago, maybe I am in the country :) And we only got free to air TV last year. My neighbours mostly run Windoze. My Vet runs M.S. Terminal services (and is overdue for a new server) My wifes practice and my business run Windows. My local hospital runs Novell/Windooze. (so glad I don't have to deal with novel anymore) My sons mates are stuck on PS and xboxs, too young. Ok my son has a XP box but he rarely uses it, he's only 6. My local ATO office runs Windoze. If you just look around you might be surprised Horst, unless you are surrounded by pure linux zealots and techno freaks who never venture out into the sunshine :) A modern version like Vista is far easier to install than any recent version of Windows, runs on far more hardware without 'many' problems than any recent version of Windows, and comes with every program most people need right out of the box (and doesn't old Bill get in trouble for that !). But the very best way to protect Windoze from all those badies out there on the Internet is to use a Snapgear ala Cyberguard running... EMBEDED LINUX :) Andrew.C -----Original Message----- From: Horst Herb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 March 2007 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Internet redundancy On Monday 12 March 2007 21:26, Andrew wrote: > Yeah like that would work in the real world. > Mac's maybe, Linux not happening this decade. Hey, Dorrigo is part of the real world too. My neighbours (teacher couple + 2 teenagers) are runnning totally on Linux. The vet is. My pactice is. Part of the local hospital is now (A&E, doctors consulting room) Our home is 3 of my son's mates are The household of the lady running the government access center is (I know because I sometimes help her if she runs into problems) If you just look around you might be surprised, unless you are surrounded by pure luddites, gullible consumers and technophobics A modern distro like Kubuntu is far easier to install than any recent version of Windows, runs on far more hardware without any problems than any recent version of Windows, and comes with every program most people need right out of the box. Cheers, Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
