Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 15:28 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Platform Flexibility: Corporations Are Not To Be Blamed
>>
>> More quotes:
>>
>> .----
>> | Let?s say you are a software developer who wants to experience Linux.
>> | You have tried it before and you feel that you can be more efficient
>> | in Linux over Windows while developing a core component of an
>> | application. The ideal employer interested in making your life
>> | comfortable lets you convert your office workstation from Windows to
>> | Linux.
>> |
>> | ...
>> |
>> | After two weeks, you decide to make a few custom tweaks just to get
>> | the right desktop environment, but while making those tweaks,
>> | something goes wrong, and now you are locked out of the workstation.
>> `----
>>
>>>
> http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Featured_Story/Platform_Flexibility%3A_Corporations_Are_Not_To_Be_Blamed_200609052535/1/
>>
>> What a load of crap. "Gundeeqp Hora", if that's his real name, thinks
Coming from someone that calls himself "[h]omo" or somesuch? Hilarious.
>> that an IT pro, with zero Linux experience, gets a new job developing
>> on Linux, and his new boss is not only happy to accommodate him, but
>> would tolerate a Linux noob wasting company money on his "curiosity".
>>
>> It was when he suggested that it was possible to get "locked out of
>> the workstation", just by "tweaking the desktop", that made me
>> suspicious!!! What a load of bollocks; this guy has obviously never
>> even *seen* Linux running, let alone had any experience of it in the
>> workplace.
>
>
> I noticed that too.
"Me too".
> I deliberately avoided quoting that misinformed
> garbage.
Why? You dont normally.
> In three years of using this current Linux machine, I was never 'locked
> out', unless I was deliberately tinkering with, e.g. X.org
> settings. Compare
So, err, you have been. Hmm Hmm.
> that with Windows, which has 'moods'. Safe mode, command-line with no
> diagnostics tools, etc.
Rubbish.
>
> And this won't change in Vista. Microsoft is already preparing for the worst.
>
As a professional company one would hope so. Its called support.
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