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From: Gordon Darling on 14 Jun 2010 13:29 http://www.infoworld.com/print/126782 Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: What's in a Name? on 14 Jun 2010 15:21 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:56:17 +0000 (UTC) Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote: > Gordon Darling <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:4c166712$0$3699$afc38c87 > @read01.usenet4all.se: > > > http://www.infoworld.com/print/126782 > > > > Regards > > Gordon > > > While the article has some merit in it's context, it is directed at > corporate networks running dumb terminals. It is not good advice for the > PC as witnessed by the lack of acceptance of Linux by PC users. > Most users use whatever OS came on their PCs. Most PCs come with some flavor of windows. -- Virus Removal Instructions http://sites.google.com/site/keepingwindowsclean/home Max's Favorite Freeware http://sites.google.com/site/keepingwindowsclean/freeware I'm Max Wachtel and I approve this message. Registered Linux User #393236
From: Mark Warner on 14 Jun 2010 15:30 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Gordon Darling <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in news: >> >> http://www.infoworld.com/print/126782 > > While the article has some merit in it's context, it is directed at > corporate networks running dumb terminals. No, it's directed at enterprises using Windows machines *as* dumb terminals. > It is not good advice for the > PC as witnessed by the lack of acceptance of Linux by PC users. <q> So why don't we see this kind of Linux usage more often? Scared IT managers and a lack of skills, primarily. Even though setting up something like this is very simple, it's not a nicely packaged solution that comes with a guy in a suit handing you flashy binders with pictures of smiling users and tchotchkes emblazoned with the company's name. It doesn't have a monthly or yearly software subscription cost. It doesn't have a phone number. </q> -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 14 Jun 2010 15:55 Gordon Darling wrote: > http://www.infoworld.com/print/126782 And then there's this: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/desktop-linux-ready-mainstream-226?source=fssr -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: »Q« on 14 Jun 2010 22:16
In <news:87nfolF4muU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Gordon Darling wrote: > > http://www.infoworld.com/print/126782 > > And then there's this: > > http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/desktop-linux-ready-mainstream-226?source=fssr Now you've gone and made him mad. Thousands of paragraphs of gibberish and such are not precluded. |