Braindead Windows

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 10 November 2003 08:11 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics.  I have
> gotten, by default, the job of getting us up and going with digital
> photography in our pathology department.
>
> You have to experience it to believe it, but our IS department is
> trying to make my life as difficult as possible because I bought a
> computer from the digital camera company, not through IS. Our IS
> steals software and hardware from people who buy through them and not
> straight from the vendor. Seriously.  And, of course, IS bids for
> hardware are slow and over priced. If I suggested linux, they would
> use that against me for sure and fight like tooth and nail all the
> way. We are talking seriously computer impaired but politically savvy
> people. They have to be politically savvy because they keep their
> jobs despite knowing nothing about computers.

I consulted for a place once that, when I told IS I wanted to run linux 
on the in-house computer they gave me to use, basically threated to 
fire me.  I literally had to hide the linux partition on the box.  I'm 
not there anymore, and I'm sure the partition is still there.  They 
probably can't figure out why the hard disk only appears to be half as 
big as it is supposed to be.

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Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd rather be sailing"