On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 02:20 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 07:25:05AM +0100, Balint Szigeti wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 15:48 +0200, Bzzzz wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:01:43 -0400 > > > Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: > > > > > > > What's wrong with that? I also have to use Windows, even when I'm > > > > working on Linux device drivers (and have been for 20+ years). > > > > > > > > Sometimes you don't have a choice in the matter. > > > > > > This is because you don't work hard enough *<;-) > > > > > > > that's not true. there are lots of situations when you just get a PC and > > only that system is enable on the specific network. > > you can't reinstall it to Linux because there is a 'fantastic' sw on it > > which regularly report itself to the server. if this report > > delay, the network connection will terminate. yep, you can ask exception > > for you but the internal policy is banned it. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > so what would you do in this situation? > > What??? You are joking aren't you? Future employers may be reading this. >
I've just describe a potential situation. I've wanted to give an example, there is a situation when you try, but you can NOT use Linux. Anyway, if it would be a real policy at a real employer, I didn't share this with everyone. I've just tried to convince you, there are part of the world where you can try but you are not allowed. > -- > "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people > who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > oppressing." --- Malcolm X > >
