you could measure my blood pressure with a gas gauge at the moment.
i just got an email from someone who i had to fight the entire enterprise chain of command for internally. he HAD to have a linux server, because windows was evil. he got the head of marketing to christen this, then shove it down the IT policymakers’ throats. i like linux, i prefer it for a web environment. i was happy to have another shell account. i supported the coup.
he emailed complaining that he couldn’t remote desktop into the server anymore, now that it is regenned. he thought that linux was an application, even after i emailed him asking him to backup the data, since re installation was going to wipe the box.
when i explained that remote desktop wasn’t going to work, but that i could try and work out some sort of VNC solution if he gave me some time, i got this response:
“that’s o.k. i don’t really want to learn how to use another program. just un-install ubuntu and put windows back on, if that is what will make the remote desktop thing work again. thanks!”
i reply sweetly, ccing my boss, who is laughing his balls off at me for backing this lame horse. the end product? the whole reason we went linux was because he wanted to install an open-source plugin for joomla, and in the thread on the user support, someone in the thread said that the app worked way better on linux, so you should install that.
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