Tired of supporting friends' computers Migrate them to GNULinux 3514

On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:44:20 -0600, ray

Great in theory, terrible in practice. I have 3 kids in college and every single one of them, 3 different Universities BTW, have been told it's MsOffice *.doc or nothing. One uses a Mac, with Office and even SHE had a couple of problems with some tables not translating properly to the Windows version. Do I agree with this? Of course not, but, I have 3 kids with 4.0 GPA's and 2 out of 3 with full scholarships so why make troubles! When my daughters graduate and become lawyers maybe they will argue the point. When my son graduates and becomes a Physicist he can figure it out for himself. They all hate Windows BTW and my son uses Linux and OpenOffice.

There comes a time where the flag waving gets put aside and common sense kicks into gear. I see idiots like the COLA gang all the time at airports when I travel and I travel a lot. They harbutt the gate agent, the flight attendents and anyone in their path and then they wonder why they don't get comp drinks, get the worst seats on the plane and have their luggage sent to Alaska when they were going to Nebraska. Trying to make a point, even if technically you are right, has it's place but then again there are some places where keeping ones mouth shut is the smart thing to do. flatfish+++