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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> PURE Microsoft FUD... "They" are pulling out all the stops now, trying to |
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> block the advancement of Linux in any areas they can. The fact is, they are |
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> loosing big time, big money. |
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> Do a simple google safari for "ie 7" and "windows vista" and read the posts |
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> from ordinary windows users (not the professional microsoft shills)... |
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> There's so much discontentment "out there" with microsoft products that |
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> Microsoft will never be able to quell it. |
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> It's a literal "Linux Breeding Ground" and Linux could fill their needs. |
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> If "you guys and gals" want to do some serious Linux advocating, start lending |
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> as much help as you can on the micosoft support usenet forums. Help as much |
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> as you can. If you are successful, then perhaps you've made a friend. If you |
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> fail at fixing their windows toys, offer them a free copy of linux... You may |
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> make a friend for life. |
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> As example, I offer: |
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> I just spent two hours on the phone, helping a guy with his brand new Dell |
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> desktop. It worked great a couple of days ago, today IE7 says is..."cannot |
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> display webage". All webpages...dead. Turned out he "somehow" turned on the |
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> windows firewall AND a third party firewall. Un-installing the second |
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> firewall got him backup and in business. I helped him configure the windows |
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> firewall as best as I could and recommend a few places to google for more |
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> information on firewall setups. Yeah, I helped fix a windows box... It took 2 |
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> hours... The guy was a total nubie... However, at the end of the session, he |
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> did take me up on my recommendation of using FireFox for general browsing and |
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> IE7 for those sites that absolutely have to have it. He also took me up on my |
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> offer of a free copy of a Live Linux DVD. |
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> There's a gold mine of new linux users/converts out there. They just have to |
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> be told that there really is CHOICE amongst OS's, browsers, etc... |
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> Jerry McBride |
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My Brother who knows nothing about puters uses windoze XP. The first |
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thing I did was install Mozilla. I recently upgraded to Seamonkey |
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though. He runs Norton on it and as far as I know he has only had one |
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or two infections. Here are the rules I made for him. If you get a |
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email with a attachment, send it to me first to look at. NEVER OPEN |
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ANYTHING unless it is from me. NEVER install nothing if a window pops |
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up, NEVER. Update the OS regularly. I usually get a alert and call him |
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to run the updater. Keep Norton up to date. If it expires, keep the |
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system offline until it is updated. |
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He has been really lucky. I thank Seamonkey for a lot of that but those |
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rules up there help too. I have seriously thought of putting Linux on |
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that thing. Something like Mandriva or something. He wouldn't care. |
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I also have a neighbor that stays broke. I sort of put a system |
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together for him, monitor and all. I put Linux on it too. He loves |
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it. It has a ton of card games that he had to buy for windoze and they |
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were always crashing or locking up windoze on him. |
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Linux may not be for everyone but there are a lot of people out there |
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that can use Linux and never really know the difference. Let's educate |
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these poor souls and get them off the monopoly drug. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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