On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:20:17 +1200 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> 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. > What do you see as a problem here? He's saying he has no choice about using Windows in a particular network. That's not unusual. Most companies bigger than three or four people have IT policies, not always sanely based. In purely practical terms, all the workstations in a company might be identical, all running Office, so that anyone can work anywhere. There might be a third-party security compliance procedure that excludes other operating systems, deliberately or otherwise. And so on... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140711173942.364b6...@jretrading.com
