On 3 Jul 2001, at 23:19, Mike Andrew boldly uttered: > 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. Thanks so much for the story. I'm musing on the idea of people being forced by necessity not to watch TV. (well I guess if you truly can't do without there's always satellite) I voluntarily purged it from my life probably over 10 years ago and never looked back. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
