On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:12, krishnakant Mane wrote: > > Tell them to put a new blank disk for their data and linux. U > > supply the disk if neccessary. End of story. > > if that can happen nothing like it. even I was thinking of making > our clients at least dual boot their machines so that they start > using gnu/linux. only thing is most of them will not even allow a > machine under amc to be touched. and they will believe more on > their hardware guy rather than some one coming from outside. so > putting a new hard disk will only be at the mercy of the hardware > personal.
I usually do it like this. Check the free space (maybe 30GB). Tell the hardware guy u need 55gb free space. He says new disk. U say customer will refuse. He says i will convince him. U thank him profusely. > and all these hardware personals are not like you jtd, > who will go all out in supporting gnu/linux. rather many see this > as a loss of business. they think "we know linux is secured and > stable, once this man named kk installs even as duel boot, I will > soon loos the service contract." so they will in all ways put fear > uncertainty and doubt in the minds of their clients. we need to > address this issue very deeply. don't you think so? and I don't > meen to disagree with you jtd or even hurting you. but all are not > like you and me. HA ha. I take it then u havent seen the flames fly around here. I am one thick skinned bloke ;-). U are absolutely right abt the hardware guy masquerading as the knowall. Avoid dual boot like the plague. U will loose all data everytime some madcap formats the disk kyonki machine slow chal raha hai / virus hai / disk bahut din se format nahi kiya. Also the moment he blames a problem on linux just disconnect your drive and he will stick out like a sore thumb. Learn the pc arch well. Next time they dish out crap give them details of write thru v/s write back cache and its impact on queue miss or some such equally useless thingy on netwonking on windoze. Remember it's a lot of hard work and nobody's running "get the facts wright" or "kids waving arms on bbc" ads in support of linux. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
