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Office-Worker Linux: It's Here and It Works
A few weeks ago, dot.kde.org featured a great why-should-this-be-amazing story about Linux being used as the day-to-day desktop operating system for city employees in Largo, Florida. Roblimo got a chance to see the system in action to find out how ordinary office workers are proving that the old "Linux is tough to use" shibboleth is nothing but FUD, and how a medium-sized city is saving buckets of money by minimizing the tax dollars spent on licenses and hardware. Oh, and they've also pre-empted the kind of costs (in hassle and money) that can face any organization that Microsoft suspects may have some licenses out of order. This is the kind of thing every elected official should have politely waved in his or her face by concerned taxpayers. The Largo system uses KDE on Red Hat, but since both KDE and Gnome are paying much attention to user interface, similar systems could easily be running on various combinations of hardware / distribution / desktop system.
FIRSTUS POSTUS, BEEOTCHII!
I are #1. All other are number 2 or lower!!
pleeeease? mom said I could have first post...
You do realise that the money these guys are saving is costing REAL jobs of other people (Microsoft and other vendors)?
sorry
This story is nothing but mental Linux masturbation. It's an article posted on a Linux oriented website (dot.kde.org), linked to on an admittedly pro-Linux weblog, and being discussed by a group of pro-Linux computer users.
Your post is totally on topic. That's what I love about slashdot, the official blurb didn't mention the potential bias, so you did. The same thing happens with usefull links here too.
Hopefully a (linux) independant news site/paper will pick this up and confirm the numbers and get new quotes, stats, budget figures, and new interview material.
Such an article could be very powerfull once coaberated. Our government agencies occationally need a kick in the butt to resist slothy/financially stupid behavior.
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
Roger is buying his cousin's used motorcycle.
He says, "My God, it's so shiny! It's like new! What's your secret?" His cousin says, "Well, any time it's about to rain, I coat the chrome with some Vaseline so it won't tarnish. In fact, I won't be needing this any longer, take my tube."
Roger and his girlfriend are going to her parents' house for dinner for the first time, so he goes to pick her up on the motorcycle. As she's getting on the bike behind him, she says, "Listen, I have to tell you something. My family's a little strange. You can't talk during dinner. If you talk during dinner, you have to do the dishes."
When they walk into her parents' house, not only in the kitchen, but in the dining room, the living room, on the stairs, the back porch, everywhere, there are piles and piles of dirty dishes. They haven't done the dishes in months.
They sit down to eat, and the whole meal, nobody talks. It's the end of the meal, Roger is getting a little horny, and he figures nobody is going to say anything, so he grabs his girlfriend, and gives 'er right there on the dining room table. Nobody says nothing.
He's still a little horny, and her mother is kind of cute, so he figures, "What the hell?" He throws her mother up on the table and starts to do her.
He's just about done with her, when he looks out the window and sees it's starting to rain on his motorcycle. He reaches into his pocket and takes out the tube of Vaseline.
Her father jumps up and says, "All right, all right, I'll do the fucking dishes."
If you see these guise, DO NOT try to apprehend them, as they are considered to be alarmed & disingenuous, doo to their phony payper KingDumb coolappsing. long live the hobbyist whiners. fud is dead. the stock market "bull" is dead. the bull was killed buy a shitstorm of billoneous pr FUD, before IT died a whoreabull debt.
Honey, don't knock masturbation. It's good for you!
The desktop users' interaction with the OS
/. JonKatz-free
is no greater in GNU/Linux than with your sloppy product called "Windoze".
Be afraid, vvvveeerrrryyyyy aaaafffrrraaaiiidd.
Woot_spork (Trying to keep
for over 2 years).
I just had to shove Windows 2000 down the throats of my sales force. Transition from NT4.0. You should have heard the bitching/whining/crying/demands/etc... It doesnt matter what you put in front of them, they will piss-and-moan if it is different in any way. (Hell 2 years ago when I got here and made NT4.0 erase the login-name from the login screen for security they tied to hang me!) Changeing them to KDE or Gnome is no harder than any other change. In fact the Linux change will make the admin's life a dream. (No more idiots installing software that makes the system unstable!!! Damned AOL on NT!)
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Little Girl Blue
Will Blow Your Horn
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To See The Best Corn
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"I'm a dirty white tomcat, enter my world..."
heh.
I had this probem with SO once,where I was unable to start it after a crash. What I found out was that there was a dialoge box popping up asking me if I wanted to restore the auto-save files. For some reason, the window manager (Sawfish) didn't like this, and refused to display the pop-up dialoge. Star office would appear to just hang. I was able to start X wihout any window manager (xinit) and start Star Office, the dialogue box popped up, I clicked yes, to restore my auto-saves (I had over 10 documents open) and everything worked smoothly thereafter.
First my masturbation fantasies featured a plumb female midget the shaved cunt I'd pound mercilessly with my big, fat cock. However, at some point this changed. I suddenly got my rocks off thinking about a sinewy male midget and how my cock would be pleasurable squeezed in his tight asshole at the moment both of us came.
Now this worries me. As I said in the beginning, I'm no some fucking fairy faggot. I'd never kiss not to mention have sex with a man and I've rationalised my fantasies by thinking that midgets aren't really male or female. They are... well, just midgets.
I told one of my closest friends about this and he said that I should not worry about having "homosexual fantasies". This shocked me to the bone. Am I really turning into a butt pirate?! Can I avoid it somehow?