Secure Shells

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007, Dirk Moolman wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>On Wed, Feb 07, 2007, Dirk Moolman wrote:
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
>>>[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Ric Moore
>>>>Sent: 30 January 2007 08:19 PM
>>...
>>>>Thankfully, as a newbie, you'll write it in plain English for those
>of
>>>>us that are techno-speek challenged.
>>>
>>>Ok, I have put together a 4 page Word document, for those interested.
>>>Just let me know where to post it.
>>>
>>>And don't be to harsh on the criticism, please     :-)
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>>Other than doing it as a M$-Word document????  At least use
>>OpenOffice.org or other open source application.
>>
>>Bill
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>Be gentle, I am a newbie.    Teach me.

Go to http://www.openoffice.org and download the latest and greatest
version for the Microsoft virus, Windows, and learn that one doesn't need
to use Microsoft Office.

I have Office 2004 for Mac on my Mac Mini and PowerBook, but rarely use it.

One of my wife's friends, a 65+ psychologistwho's hardly computer literate,
has been using OpenOffice.org on a Linux box ever since I convinced her to
try it when she needed to update here Windows 3.1 system.  She needed a new
computer, and I offered to install Linux and StarOffice so she could try
it, and if she didn't like it I would put Windows on it for her.  That was
about 7 years ago now (Caldera eDesktop), and she's on her second Linux
machine now.  Barbara has to deal with quite a bit of document exchange
with hundreds of people, and handles their M$-Word, Excel and other files
with OpenOffice.org without problems.  She loves the fact that she never
has to worry about worms, viruses, etc. that plague many of the people she
works with.

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>PS. to give you a quick overview of my surroundings, I am on a microsoft
>network, with microsoft clients, and linux servers (for the Oracle
>databases).  Except for the linux servers, everything else is microsoft.

I, on the other hand, have never used Microsoft anything, and gave my wife
a Mac Mini for her birthday a year ago so she wouldn't have to listen to me
piss and moan every time I had to deal with her Win98 machine.  I've been
using *nix systems since 1982, starting with Xenix (I take it back about
never using anything from Microsoft at Xenix was their port of Unix on the
Radio Shack Model 16 :-).

Our network here as mostly Linux servers with a FreeBSD and an SCO
OpenServer box thrown in for flavor.  While I used Linux as my primary
desktop for years, I've been using Mac OS X for most things for the last
three years or so.

Most of the software I do is for servers, and I just want things to work on
the desktop without having to muck with it.

Bill
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