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Australian Government Agency Moves Towards Linux
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting that Centrelink, the Australian government agency responsible for distributing social security payments, is investigating Novell's Open Enterprise Server as a method of consolidating huge chunks of its network. Centrelink's national manager is quoted as saying: "We have to look at remote access, virus protection, security. Linux has those capabilities but we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products""
The thing is, does the Australian government run Linux? Yeehaw, first post. I rule! I beat the GNAA. Plus I have karma to burn. Bye now!
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Reminds me of a phrase from the film Armageddon... It happened before... It will happen again. It's just a question of "when"...
From the article:
he will have to reassure the organisation's senior executives.
Tell them: "If we migrate your desktop to Linux, don't worry, we will also include a game of Solitaire."
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All of these systems don't really talk to each other well
Sort of like a metaphore for centrelink itself...
Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger of a sniper rifle.
Idle oxygen thieves could apply just as much to centrelink employees as the dole bludgers they 'help'.
Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger of a sniper rifle.
Damnit, if Centrelink gets their computer systems actually working, not only will the sheer shock trigger heart attacks in elderly pensioners around the country, but they might realise that I haven't been to a scheduled interview in 3 years and cut off my dole!
Hell, they might start noticing that I put crewmembers of Babylon 5 in the "employers I've contacted about a job" section of the fortnightly form!
Go back to Microsoft, Centrelink, for the good of dole-bludging geeks everywhere. Do it for us.
(Incidentally, I've, uh, hacked into this account, don't go tracking Elaurian down now...)
does this mean the australian government is going to try to run w32.whatever worm on Linux to see if it spreads? and if it doesn't is that considered a failure to meet the commercial standard?
they are switching but why if the commercial security ware is the standard to go by?
i'm confused
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Is surely what the article is meant to be titled?
Oxygen thieves is a good description of Centrelink employees. As the unemployed say - "Centrelink employment is for people who can't cope with unemployment"
we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products ... a race to the bottom is in the offing. Centrelink won't install Linux until it's just as susceptible to viruses, works and hackers as Windows is. :)
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Centrelink's national manager was further quoted:
The biggest challenge in moving to linux is burning ISOs on CDRs that spin the other way, or as we in OZ like to say, the right way. We have hired a local firm to write a clever utility based on ancient boomerang technology to fix that problem.
Those clever antepodeans! is there no stopping Linux in the southern hemisphere? We'll leave you with one more quote:
Due to our nearness to Antarctica, we have an unlimited supply of penguins. I'm very excited.
Maybe I can get some work there instead of being one on their "clients"
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