On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:59, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > How did you manage to end up at Norfolk Island? I presume you > weren't born/raised there? Do you know all the linux users? :-) sure do. Our Internet population of circa 4/500 people are aware of Linux Hell they even know about NOT sending html-email! While most would be Windows users, specifically Microsoft Office users, many of them are, or are training to be, IT professionals. The correspondence university courses here (open learning) use c c++ under linux as their tutorial (for an eg) Since it's an isolated community, and since the internet, via lack of television, opens the world to them, they are keenly aware of distros as they appear on the front covers of PC mags each month. (flavour of the month? Redhat) Secondly, since the entire Island economy is tourist based, each 'agency', ship and airline here is running some form of non-windoze real time booking system. Under the coverz, it's a *nix system of some klnd. And thirdly, because non-tourist jobs here are esoteric non mainstream eg weather balloons, marine surveys, those so employed tend to use, or be trained on, non-windoze computers. I charge them $50/hr to install windoze, nix for Linux/KDE, which would you choose? As far as me ending up here, well, you have to get lucky once in your life. I do have connections here, but they pre-date the 3rd (Pitcairn) settlement on which this tiny country is based. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
