Braindead Windows

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Just another proof of the maxim:  If you don't know sh*t, you will be put in
charge of those who do.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.