[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting List Stats

[fredjame]

Mike wrote:

>>.... why do you 'have no choice'?
>>Put in a linux install cd, boot, install and go.
>>    
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>
>I'd love to do that, but the last guy who did no longer works at my place of 
>employment. They call it hacking/cracking at my job. Working for a big 
>bureaucratic company has its downs sometimes. 
>
>Anyway, the DNS server or gateway or some other system has some sort of 
>hardware/software check before it will serve anything of value (and asking 
>questions about that is worse than booting linux.)  I could run linux on my 
>desktop for about 30 minutes. I'd never see the extranet, and then I'd be on 
>unemployment. Not a real good way to make a stand about monopolistic 
>operating systems. 
>  
>
I read this with both fear and gratitude.  Fear that I may have to work 
in such a shop at some time, and gratitude that I don't.  My sincere 
commiserations.

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