[Glastonbury] KNoppix install

[Justin Haskins]

Hello,

Who is the idiot at Strode College?

As a user of Linux I subscribed to your mailing list some time ago and have enjoyed reading the posts ever since.  I will take this time to introduce myself. I am an IT Engineer at Strode College.  Although we use nearly exclusively Microsoft Operating Systems with the excpetion of ~100 OSX macs, we do make use of Knoppix for repair and diagnostics (read ethereal).  While we don't use Linux very much we are always looking for alternatives to system we have in place, however on a network of our size that is controlled by Active Directory making a jump away from Microsoft will/would not be easy.


Justin Haskins


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Wheeler [mailto:mwheeler at startext.co.uk]
Sent: 19 September 2004 23:08
To: The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)
Subject: RE: [Glastonbury] KNoppix install


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Sean Miller wrote:

> Hey, Martin!
>
> The idiot at the Who'dAThoughtIt has banned me for talking bad about him in
> another pub!

Hell, that's nothing.  The idiot at Strode College has banned me for 
talking good about Linux. :)

[What you have to remember is that this is the depths of the Somerset 
Swamps -- very rural, very primitive, very simple.  Things are seen in 
black and white only here; passions about trivia run high.]

I can see the chattering classes of Northload Street getting all up in 
arms about it already, and starting one of their usual campaigns on GWell 
viciously targetting individuals, encouraging mob violence against those 
they collectively deem not to be in favour this week.
Next stop the death threats ...


This is Glastonbury, remember?
Small town piddling little concerns get blown out of all proportion as a 
matter of course.  Major national and international concerns are just NOT 
seen.


> I'm hosting his website for free... tempted to switch it off immediately...
> what do you think?

Nah; just inform him you've tripled your fees.

Or set up: "TheWho-dAThoughtIT_sucks.com"

Better still, set up Glastonbury's first genuine public forum where 
discussion of stuff like this can *really* take place in public -- *not*
a mail type forum, but more of a CMS that anyone can contribute to.  No 
holds barred.  This town has needed it for years.

We have sites promoting the Magickal Mystery Kosmic Krap side of town; we 
have Councillor Tom Billing's private and personal .gov.uk site; we 
have anodyne 'commercial' sites; but nowhere do we have the opportunity 
to express full-blooded social and political satire online, where the 
population can let rip as and when they need to.

How's about it?
-- 
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