[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux for Janitors.

[Steve Baker]

I saw this on the FlightGear mailing list - and couldn't resist
forwarding it. The author is a sysadmin person at a US college
campus:

"Curtis L. Olson" <curt at infoplane.com> said:

> The flight gear anonymous cvs server is down tonight.  The floors in
> my office are being stripped and waxed and we had to shuffle some
> stuff around to clear off the floors.
>
> We gave our janitor a Unix account and helped him set up his home
> computer to run Linux so he gives us extra special treatment.
> Whenever a professor comes in squawking about how he or his students
> can't be expected to deal with with Unix because it is so obfuscated
> and hard, we point out that the janitor runs unix at home and has no
> problems with it.  Hehe, we've brought more than one prima-donna back
> down to earth with that one. :-)
>
> I'll hook everything back up in the morning ... or pass out from
> stripper fumes, which ever comes first.

  :-)

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