My dear Wolfgang, I don't install other operating systems, as my computer hobby is just that. Nothing more. I have no intention of doing it full time and cannot do it just for myself. There is no "just me" in my life. My computers are shared by the rest of the family, my work machines are shared by all and sundry. And I'm expected to fix them all. Oh, and most of my customers are elderly, who have already purchased their machines and I can only work with what they have. I'm not going to tell them that they could have got the os for free! And then pay me $$ to install it - then have to come back every week when something fails, as there are practically no Unix people around the areas..... and then have them ring me asking "why can't I download and install XXX"..... And why can't I view this file, and why isn't my printer working, and my (insert relative here) tried to fix it but made it worse (this one is actually quite normal), and .........................
As to putting anything else other than ms on my work machines... BWAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA You have got to be kidding me!! I have enough to do at work as an Admin/HR without spending a huge amount of time training people to use other programs. Its hard enough for them to work winrar files!! (Quick and short - this guy opens a zip file that was on an email, has only winrar on the computer, sees an item in winrar called "folder", clicks on it and yells "PORN"!! I go check, it's his temporary internet files! The guys been surfing porn sites, and now thinks it's part of the zip file... The punch line is, it came from and went to a govt employee... he he hehe)(Oh, and he's had this machine running winrar now for, oh, a couple of years!?) So.... Do you really think I'm going to totally revamp an entire small company when the boss is more likely to be interstate than in the office, a man who was offered a part share in the business who bankrupted his own business, and a woman who has problems with excel formulas!? Not to mention the old man who is so computer illiterate, he has trouble checking his email... And when something goes wrong.. well, it's my fault! The bank was offline and the internet went down last week, so everyone got their pays late. But I should have been able to fix it, don't you know, and I did it on purpose.................... Yes, I'm still angry about that one. I just can't be bothered. They don't pay me enough. End of subject for me. :) Gonna go and fail at doing another 3D thing... on my Windoze!! machine. ;) Mandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Holzinger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:55 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 35708] Re: Cap released > > Hi Mandy > >> Mandy >> (who probably likes Microsoft a nano percentage more than most people, as >> they generate 80% of my business, fixing their un-user-friendly settings >> for >> the not so computer literate) > I've heard this argument such a lot that it makes me crying with streams > of tears in my eyes! :( > Is the situation in the IT really so that we have no other things to do > than repair bullshit software? Are there really no new fields to > explore? Fields like writing new applications for solving still unfixed > problems like "I think of a model and you, my dear computer, unwrap it, > texture it, print it and give me scissors and glue directly in my hand"! > ;) > > I'm working in the IT also but I'm glad that customers of me tell me how > glad they are that they "even don't now that there is a linux server > standing around - it simply works". I want to help them implement new > applications or evolve new ways so solve their needs and not to hang > around repairing windoze ... :( > > Only a thought, > Wolfgang > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
