Dear Mandy
> I don't install other operating systems, as my computer hobby is just that.
> .... My computers are shared
> by the rest of the family, ...
The same in my familiy. But I told them to use Linux when surfing in the
internet or doing "serious" work like text processing and so on. Windoze
is only allowed for gameing when NO OTHER possibility is available!!!
They do so, and my amount of work keeping linux up and running is minimal.
> And I'm expected to fix them all. Oh, and most of my customers are elderly,
> ... 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
Well, this depends upon your point of view. I think every buck paied for
me instead of m$ is much better invested ... ;) ;) LOL
> something fails, as there are practically no Unix people around the
... fails ...
... with Linux ...
Girl, what you are talking about! ;)
> 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 .........................
Oh oh, this sounds quite familiar to me: "My relative, who is a computer
export, too, installed ..."
Big bullshit followes ...
> 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
Big sorry, not really! What I told you was my way of getting my software
environment to work. And it saved around 10000 $ within the first two years.
Not too bad, I think. Enough to have a good lunch! ;)
> 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!?)
OK OK OK OK, the normal admin horror, isn't it!
Please be cool; a few years working with a complex application like
winrar isn't enough ... ;)
> So.... Do you really think I'm going to totally revamp an entire small
Yes (climper with my eyes!)
> company when the boss is more likely to be interstate than in the office, a
Yeah, one point of failure less! LOL
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Of course, who's else! ;)
> 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.
This is a point I can totally agree!
> I just can't be bothered. They don't pay me enough.
Correct!
> End of subject for me. :)
Amen!
And that's the point my thinking about the problem startet: It is not
the IT for itself but the lousy programmed software by m$ which is the
problem. Sure, sometimes you have to do admin tasks in Linux or Unix,
too. But normally it is not too much work, and if you have some error
messages they are logically funded and you have more than a chance to
get the error fixed quickly.
> Gonna go and fail at doing another 3D thing... on my Windoze!! machine. ;)
Have a nice day!
And thanks for the nice discussion; I love it.
Have a nice day, Wolfgang
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MfG Wolfgang Holzinger
E-Mail: [email protected]
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