I'm not taking that article too seriously, but the discussion in the comments is pretty funny. I think what people find strange is that she "accidentally" bought a Dell with Linux preinstalled?
Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kmckenney Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] Interesting, any guinea pigs? Actually, I can see her point, and I have no problem with linux. She may very well have been unable to install the client and drivers needed for her broadband modem, and while Office 2003 formats are fairly well supported by open office, office 2007 presents a real challange, or it did last I looked. Also keep in mind, the classes she was taking absolutely required word. Why? Who knows, maybe she was taking a class on MS word? Sure, you or I would have no issues with this, I could even get it to load on linux, you probably would have even less trouble, but she couldn't. And remember people like this, wether we want to admit it or not are the people that put gas in our cars, food on our table, and roofs over our head. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Timothy A. Limbert" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:04:52 -0600 I'll run it by the admin. Willing to give it a try. And your signature line is spot-on. Case in point: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/15/158216 --- Timothy A. Limbert Technology Coordinator Newell-Fonda CSD 712-272-3324 --- iChat/AIM: tlimbert65 MSN: limbert65 Twitter: limbert65 Skype: limbert_65 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lance Lennon Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [info-tech] Interesting, any guinea pigs? Got this from another list serv. http://www.schoohoo.com/ Anyone gonna try it for the rest of us? -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~ Rich Cook -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-4749 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the schaller-crest.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
