Roy Schestowitz came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> How Linux Saved My Job
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> | My stomach tightened into a golf ball and my palms began to sweat like
> | I was in a sauna. Panic does that to people sometimes, at least it
> | does to me. I cannot think straight . Especially when my job of
> | sixteen years is about to evaporate in front of my eyes.
> |
> | In a moment of lucidity, I grabbed the disk, a Nimblex Live CD from
> | my desk drawer and ran full speed down the steps and out the door
> | onto the street.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Had I not known about Linux or had a good friend who taught me about
> | it, I would have been three months in the unemployment line.
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http://www.lobby4linux.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=2
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> There was another story about Linux rescuing people's PCs last week.
Live CDs are quite possibly the single most useful tool in a technician's
toolbox. I have them for not only demonstrating Linux to clients, on their
own machines, I also use them for rescue and recovery and backup. Now that
NTFS support has matured to the point of being relatively safely writable,
one can even carry on working on a b0rked XP box using eg Knoppix, Kororaa,
Kanotix, SuSE Live, or Mandriva Live.
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Spanking brand new high end desktop computer: Â1700
Spanking brand new colour laser printer/scanner/copier/fax: Â600
Vista Ultimate: Â369
The look on your face when nothing works: priceless
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